For a sport that cherishes its history with such devotion, it seems surprising that there is no official commemoration on the site of the first international fixture.
No blue plaque, no nothing. In recent weeks, the BBC went in search of the game’s exact location and pretty much gave up.
The reason was partly a fog of differing reports from the mid-19th century but mostly because the site is somewhere around 30th and Broadway in Manhattan. Then again, judging from the scorecard back in 1884, it was one of those dodgy out-ground experiments you quickly forget.
Canada hit 82 in their first i...
