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Penn Baseball in the 1800s
1876-1877 Varsity Team

 

Summary:
It was recorded that Penn only played 1 game this year, a loss.

The 1877 yearbook and the 1913 Athletic Association history of Penn athletics list a total of nine undergraduates and one law student as members of this team.

Members:

  • Edward Vincent d'Invilliers, '78,
    captain
  • Louis Cornette Brastow, '81
  • William Wainwright Britton, '79
  • James Stratton Carpenter, '79
  • Arthur Latham Church, '78
  • Alexander C. Crawford, '77 Law
  • J. S. Crawford, '79
  • Horace Hoffman Lee, '79
  • John Curtis Patterson, '78
  • Henry Foster Stewart, '79
DATEOPPONENTLOCATIONRUNSOUTCOME
PENNOPPONENT
Oct. 23Athletics 25th and Jefferson710 Loss

 

 

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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