Summary:
Penn again played only 1 game, an away loss to Princeton 21-8.

The 1879 yearbook and the 1913 Athletic Association history of Penn athletics lists seven College students plus two Medical School students as players on this team, as well as a manager. A photograph of an 1879 baseball team, however, identifies an amost completely different group of players.

Members:

• Louis Cornette Brastow, '81,
  captain
• Frederick Bain, '81
• Oscar Charles Sumner Carter, '79
• C. Gillespie, '80 Medical
• Horace Hoffman Lee, '79
• Meyer Schamberg, '82
• John Borland Thayer, Jr., '82
• Edwin Van Dusen, '80 Medical
• Edward Anderson White, '81

Manager:

• William Wainwright Britton, '79

Members in the photograph:

• Frank Madison Dick, '81
  captain
• John Borland Thayer, Jr., '82,
  captain
• J.T. Bailey, '81
• Louis Cornette Brastow, '81
• Alfred G. Clay, '80 Law
• William Heyward Drayton, '81
• Reginald Lawrence Hart, '79
• Thomas Guy Hunter '82
• John Eaton LeConte, '81
• P.W. Miller, '82 Law
• Gustavus Remak, '82
• William Thomas Robinson, '81
• William Moore Stewart, '79
• George Chapman Thayer, 81

Umpire:

• Ellis Ames Ballard, '81