Quick 1888
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Quick 1888 is an amateur sporting club from Nijmegen, The Netherlands. It was founded in 1888 as a cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 club and currently plays football in the third amateur level.

As a football club, Quick reached its moment of fame in 1949 when it won the Dutch Cup. Afterwards the club lost the final of the 1949 Dutch Supercup
1949 Dutch Supercup
The match for the first Dutch Supercup was held on 25 June 1949 in the Goffertstadion. The match featured the 1948–49 winners of the league title SVV, and, the winners of the 1948–49 KNVB Cup, Quick 1888 . There would not be another Dutch Supercup until 1991.-Match details:-External...

 against Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging
Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging
Schiedamse Voetbal Vereniging was a Dutch professional football club from Schiedam. Founded in 1904, the club won the Dutch national football title in 1949. In 1991, SVV and neighbouring Dordrecht'90 merged to form FC Dordrecht.-History:...

. The club also has a badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

, athletics and a field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 branch.

Dutch international football players

  • Nol van Berckel  6
  • Hans Blume  1
  • Han Engelsman  1
  • Felix von Heyden  1
  • Henk Steeman
    Henk Steeman
    Hermanus Hendrikus Steeman was a football player from the Netherlands, who represented his home country at the 1920 Summer Olympics. There he won the bronze medal with the Netherlands national football team...

      1
  • Piet Velthuizen  1

Cricket

As a cricket club, Quick has produced a number of national representatives in both men's and women's cricket. Most recently, two members represented the Netherlands national women's cricket team at the 2008 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier
2008 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier
The 2008 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier was an eight-team tournatment held in South Africa in February 2008 to decide the final two qualifiers for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup...

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The club is affiliated with the Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond
Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond
The Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond is the governing body of cricket in the Netherlands. It was formed in 1883 and received a Royal charter in 1958.-See also:*Dutch cricket team*Dutch women's cricket team...

 and currently has four teams, two senior men's, one women's and a veterans team, making it the largest cricket club in the east of The Netherlands.
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