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CRIBBAGE CLUB

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CRIBBAGE CLUB. In August 1875 some members of the "Art Preservative" organized themselves into a cribbage club in Dubuque. A contest was held in which each person played seven games with each of the other contestants for an "elegant cribbage board." (1)

The game between Joe Keller, president of the Legion Cribbage Club and Pete Koenig in 1936 made the Telegraph-Herald. In dealing the card, Keller ended up with the five of spades, diamonds, hearts and the jack of clubs. Keonig cut the remaining deck and turned up the five of clubs which gave Keller the "perfect hand" of 29 points. (2) The odds of getting such a hand are 1 in 216,580.

In 1983 cribbage was one of the events in the YMCA Service Club Olympics.

The mathematical elements of cribbage (a pair of cards equals 2 points, a run of three cards equals 3, a double run of three cards equals 8 etc.) led the game to be used by teachers in regular classrooms and in pulled-out programs such as that for the talented and gifted. (3)


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Source:

1. "Cribbage Tournament," Dubuque Herald, August 11, 1875, p. 4. Online: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=uh8FjILnQOkC&dat=18750811&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

2. "Legion Listening Post," Telegraph Herald, May 29, 1936, p. 5

3. Becker, Stacey, "Cribbage: A Game Used to Stimulate the Brain," Telegraph Herald, March 21, 2009, p. 24