Established: 1892
Location: Moorestown, NJ

The Certificate of incorporation on file in the Burlington County Clerk's office, Book C, Folio 242, states:

"Be it remembered, that on the seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two at a regular meeting of the Moorestown Field Club of the township of Chester, county of Burlington, an association of less than one thousand members for the encouragement and practice of Ball playing, lawn tennis playing, cricket playing and other moral and healthful physical exercises. The said Club did by a majority vote, that being the method prescribed by the consititution of said club, of its member by ballot elect Walter P. Stokes, President; J. Whitall Nicholson, Vice President; J. Stogdell Stokes, Secretary; Harry D. Walton, Treasurer; and Charles F. Atkinson, Trustee, for the term of one year from the date of their election, and said association did in the same manner and by like vote assure as the corporate name of said association the following, to wit: Moorestown Field Club."

Cricket was important to the new club. It was the second birthright sport. The Field club team played in the Philadelphia Cup Series (Halifax Cup) against others from the Germantown, Belmont, Merion, and Philadelphia cricket clubs. Matches were, of course, always followed by teas, and sometime dancing. Automobiles being uncommon at the time, the trip home from Germantown was an ordeal. Resplendent in blazers of the club's blue and white colors, the players, some carrying bats, pads and gloves, walked a mile to the first trolley car. After a lurching ride, they walked another mile to a second trolley which took them to the center of Philadelphia. Then a walk down to the PRR ferry, and a voyage across the Delaware River to Camden. The last leg was another trolley ride to Moorestown, and a walk home in the dark. Travel time from Germantown tea to Moorestown supper---three hours.
Such dedication had its rewards. Whenever the British or African teams came over to play an All-Philadelphia team, the Moorestown Field Club was well represented. Likewise, when the All-Philadelphia Team traveled to Europe, the Moorestown players were on the boat. World War 1 marked the demise of cricket at the Field Club. With the young players in the trenches and their elders occupied elsewhere, interest in cricket waned. Two matches with Haddonfield in 1933 were the last to be recorded.

Photo of the 1899 Team
Photo of the 1902 Team
Photo of the 1904 Team

The Moorestown Field Club remains active but no longer fields a cricket team.