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Penn Baseball in the 1800s
1884 Varsity Team

Summary:
The Penn Baseball team played two games this year winning the first but losing the second. The offense exploded in the first game for seventeen runs, but were silent in the second game, scoring only one run.

All nine of the players listed on this team were students in the College: five juniors, two sophomores and two freshmen. The 1884 yearbook and the Athletic Association history of Penn athletics published in 1913 both list the same individuals on this team.

Members:

Paul Thompson, '85,
captain
William Leeds Barker, '85
Randolph Faries, '85
John Julius Hovey, '87
Thomas Love Latta, '87
Walter Raleigh Livingstone, '86
William Woodbridge Noble, '85
Robert Lewis Rutter '86
Lewis Wynne Wister, '85

DATE	OPPONENT	LOCATION	RUNS		OUTCOME
DATE	OPPONENT	LOCATION	PENN	OPPONENT	OUTCOME
May 8	Young America	Young America Grounds	17	7	Win
May 21	Lafayette	Easton	1	10	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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