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Summary:

From the 1868 Record: "In Base-ball,[students] have been more successful [than in cricket], winning a match from the Polytechnic nine and thus retrieving the defeat of the previous year. The nine of the Senior Class, in consequence of the absence of two of their best men, were defeated by a nine picked from the rest of the College."

Team Members:

• James P. Wright, '70 Law (A.B. 1867), captain
• Edward Robins Grant, '69
• Joseph Hopkinson, '69
• George K. Hunter, '70
• William Robert MacAdam, '68
• Robert Martin, '71
• John Elmore McCreary, '68
• Henry McKeen, '71
• Francis Fenelon Rowland, '70

This page was created in August 2005 by University Archives Summer Research Fellow Michael T. Woods, under the supervision of Mary D. McConaghy. Mike is an undergraduate at Penn State University

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