But wait, there's more...

As described in my most recent post, I now know that men were playing field hockey at Springfield College in the 1890s. But can I at least say with certainty that no women played the sport at a U.S. college before Constance Applebee’s arrival in 1901? Maybe not.

According to a piece I came across in my research, excerpted above, "it is clear that field hockey was played at Goucher College before 1900." Goucher College was known as the Women's College of Baltimore at the time, so this would be very relevant to my question. And it didn't take long to confirm:

The yearbook for the class of 1899 at the Women’s College of Baltimore thought enough of the sport to dedicate a page to it:

In that same yearbook, the woman listed as the field hockey instructor, Hanna Flyborg, is described as a graduate of Kingsfield Physical Training College in England:

This most likely would make her the “graduate of an English athletic school” mentioned in The History of Goucher College above.

In any event, judging from an entry in the “Lost and Found” section of the 1900 yearbook, interest seems to have waned quickly:

"Lost -- A small amount of interest in Hockey. If found, return to students of W.C.B. before spring."