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Abstract
This paper examines how by 1900 cricket had come to be seen as an important representation of Yorkshire identity. It places the start of this process in the game's popular pre-modern context, as professional-centred, competitive, commercial cricket dominated its formative development across the region. The way these values led to local rivalries which became focused on the concept of a representative team building Yorkshire's status within the national context of cricket is then explored. Finally these events are set against the formation of the ‘Gentleman Amateur’ controlled county club in 1863, to show how a distinctive concept of county cricket developed in Yorkshire which offers a different perspective on the English county game during its formative decade and beyond.
Notes
1. R.S. Holmes, The history of Yorkshire county cricket 1833–1903, (London, 1904), p. 1.
2. Dave Russell, ‘Sport and identity: The case of Yorkshire county cricket club, 1890–1939’, Twentieth Century British History, 7 (2) (1996), pp. 206–30.
3. John Woodcock, ed., Wisden cricketers almanack 1981 (London, 1981), p. 291.
4. A.W. Pullin (‘Old Ebor’), History of Yorkshire county cricket 1903–1923 (Leeds, 1924), p. 11.
5. York Courant, 21 Aug. 1833.
6. Bells Life, 29 June 1828.
7. Bells Life, 27 July 1834.
8. Sheffield Independent, 2 and 9 Sept. 1826.
9. Sheffield Independent, 7 Sept. 1833.
10. Sheffield Independent, 30 May 1829.
11. Russell, ‘Sport and identity’, p. 214.
12. Leeds Mercury, 14 July 1849.
13. Russell, ‘Sport and identity’, p. 216.
14. Bell's Life, 31 Aug. 1851
15. Russell, ‘Sport and identity’, pp. 215–17
16. Leeds Times, 2, 9 Aug. 1851.
17. Russell, ‘Sport and identity’, p. 215.
18. Leeds Times, 2 Aug. 1851.
19. Leeds Times, 17 May 1851.
20. Leeds Times, 26 July 1851.
21. Russell, ‘Sport and identity’, pp. 207–8.
22. Leeds Times, 9 Aug. 1851.
23. Bell's Life, 7 Sept. 1851.
24. Bradford Observer, 1 Aug. 1861.
25. Bradford Observer, 10 July 1862.
26. Holmes, Yorkshire county cricket, p. 40.
27. Leeds Times, 2 May 1863.
28. Leeds Times, 14 May 1864.
29. Leeds Intelligencer, 21 Aug. 1867.
30. Holmes, Yorkshire county cricket, p. 42.
31. Holmes, Yorkshire county cricket, p. 43.
32. Leeds Times, 27 June 1863.
33. Holmes, Yorkshire county cricket, p. 44.
34. Holmes, Yorkshire county cricket, p. 44.
35. Bradford Observer, 22 June 1865.
36. Leeds Times, 19 Aug. 1865.
37. Holmes, Yorkshire county cricket, p. 44.
38. Holmes, Yorkshire county cricket, p. 44.
39. Leeds Times, 17 June 1867.
40. See Woodcock, Wisden cricketers almanack 1981, p. 294.
41. Bradford Observer, 13 June 1867.
42. Russell, ‘Sport and identity’, p. 229.
43. Russell, ‘Sport and identity’, p. 213.
44. Manchester Times, 15 July 1898.
45. Manchester Times, 15 July 1898.