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Summary:
Penn's record this year was 4-5, with all 4 of their wins coming at University Grounds. They scored 10.8 runs per game but gave up 13.4 runs per game.

Note that the list of team members varies slightly from source to source. Included here is everyone named in the 1885 yearbook, the Athletic Association history of Penn athletics published in 1913, or both.

Members:

• John Julius Hovey, '87
  captain
• Albert Rowland. Cline, '87
• Crawford Coates, '87
• Randolph Fairies, '85
• Thomas Love Latta, '87
• William Tennent Moffly, '87
• William Woodbridge Noble, '85
• Robert Lewis Rutter, '86
• Joseph Allison Scott, '85
• Henry Hunter Seyfert, '87
• Paul Thompson, '85
• Samuel Welsh III, '85
• Lewis Wynne Wister, '85

Substitutes:

• Crawford Coates, '87
• Morris Hacker, '86
• David P. Stoever, '85

Manager:

• M.C. Work, '85