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D. F. Kendall. 'So, s., M. P. French, '82, 1., F. F. Reed, '80, m., A. H. Brown, Jr., '83, r.
The nine just named was remiss in practice, and was twice defeated by the Tecumseh Club, 4 to 1, and 15 to 3. In the fol- lowing year more attention was paid to practice. F. W. Davenport was chosen captain of the nine, which made a creditable showing in two games with the strong professional team of Detroit, twice defeated the cadets of Orchard Lake, lost a game to the Cass Club
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of Detroit by the score of 5 to o, and won a victory over Dexter, 40 to 17. The nine was made up in the following manner:
G. B. Daniels, '81, c., F. W. Davenport, '82, p., G. A. Derby, '83, I, J. F. Gallaher, '82, 2, A. H. Brown, '83, 3,
W. M. Thompson, '81, s.,
M. P. French, '82, 1.,
E. P. Hathaway, '82, m.,
Harry Bitner, '84, r.
In the winter of 1881-82 an intercollegiate baseball league composed of Michigan, Wisconsin, Northwestern and Racine, was formed. In anticipation of the approaching season a gymnasium was fitted up in a large room over one of the hardware stores in town, and there the baseball men practiced steadily. In April preliminary games were played with the Fort Wayne team of De- troit, 23 to o, the League Club of Detroit, 4 to 14, and the Cass Club, 6 to 5. About the first of May new suits, of gray with blue trimmings, and with "U. of M." in blue on the breast, arrived for the players. A nine was now selected for the league series, as follows:
M. F. Walker, '84 l, c., A. T. Packard, '83, p. & 3, T. P. Antle, '84 m, p., F. W. Davenport, '82, I, R. M. Dott, '84, 2,
J. H. Rollins, '82 7, 3, A. S. Harvey, '84 h, s., C. G. Allmendinger, '85, 1., Walter Davis, '85, m., J. F. Gallaher, '82, r.
Of this team Harvey was chosen captain. The Cass Club was defeated at Ann Arbor, May 6, by a score of 20 to 14. The Chronicle of May 13, 1882, said "At no time in the last eight years has there been shown so much interest in baseball as during the present season". On the 20th of May the first of the league games was played at Ann Arbor with the Wisconsin team, and was won by our men, 20 to 8. Packard, the Michigan pitcher, struck out eleven men, and Davenport's first base play was excel- lent. May 26 the team started on its Western tour, in the course of which it defeated Racine 12 to 2 and II to 10, Wisconsin 16 to 6, and Northwestern 20 to 3. As Northwestern forfeited its second game, the end of the league season left Michigan the champion, with six victories and no defeats. Other games played before college closed were these: Michigan against Fort Wayne, 6 to 2; Michigan against Cass, 10 to 18 and 22 to 6. Because of a lack of money it became necessary to abandon the proposed Eastern trip in which Michigan as the winner of the Western collegiate championship would have met the Eastern champions.
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giate League because satisfactory arrangements could not be made for the expenses of our team on its Western tour. The season of 1883 began April 21, with a game against a picked nine, which Michigan won by a score of 9 to 8. Then the University defeated Adrian College, April 28, and a few days later was beaten at Ann Arbor by the Detroit League team, 17 to 5. May 19 the Jackson Mutuals were defeated 20 to 2. The professional team of Toledo was beaten at Ann Arbor, June 2, by a score of 14 to II, and one week afterwards the strong professional nine of Port Huron played on the fair grounds at Ann Arbor, winning against the Uni- versity by the narrow margin of 2 to o. In the return game at Port Huron our nine was defeated 22 to o. The team in 1883 was as follows:
H. E. Montgomery, '86, c.,
A. T. Packard, '83, p., C. H. Blackburn, '83 h, I, Charles Hueber, '84 p, 2, W. W. Walker, '84 h, 3,
C. G. Allmendinger, '85, s.,
W. D. Condon, '86 p, l.,
A. E. Miller, '83, m,
Lincoln MacMillan, '89, r.
In 1884 the baseball interest withdrew from the Athletic Asso- ciation and formed an association of its own, choosing H. F. Forbes, '84, as President, and Don C. Corbett, '85, as manager of the team. The following were the players selected for the nine: C. C. Smith, '86, c., Lincoln MacMillan, '89, s.,
W. R. Payne, '87, c., W. D. Condon, '86 p, I.,
J. D. Hibbard, '87, p., F. R. Carson, '84 d, m.,
C. G. Allmendinger, '85, I, E. C. Best, '88, m.,
C. B. Weatherwax, '87, 2, W. W. Walker, '84 h, 3,
I. M. Long, '89, r.
During the season of 1884 ten games were played with Ply- mouth, St. Louis Reserves, Cass, Orchard Lake, Detroit Amateurs, Ypsilanti Crescents, and the Agricultural College, in eight of which Michigan was victorious. One of the games was a tie, and one was a defeat. The University made 89 runs to 54 scored by its opponents, and the base hits were 90 and 59 respectively. The fielding average of Michigan was .837. Condon made not a sin- gle error during the season. Carson led the batting with the high average of . 353, but he played in only four games. Condon with an average of .261 surpassed all others who played throughout the series.
Early in the spring of 1885 the rink was secured for practice, and new uniforms of crimson and gray were obtained. The fol- lowing games were played before Commencement: Michigan against Jackson, 16 to 13; against Plymouth, 10 to 5; against Cass,
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4 to II. The batting average of the team was . 214, and the team was made up thus:
C. T. Miller, '88, s.,
C. C. Smith, '86, c., J. D. Hibbard, '87, p., W. D. Condon, '86 p, 1.,
F. W. Mehlhop, '88, I, C. G. Allmendinger, '85, m.,
F. D. McDonell, '88, 2, E. C. Best, '88, m.,
Lincoln MacMillan, '89, 3, L. S. Bigelow, '86 l, r. & c.
John D. Hibbard, '87, who had been captain in 1885, was re- elected in 1886, and his team played seven games, defeating the Detroit Hiawathas, 15 to 10, the Detroit Amateurs, 7 to 4, Orch- ard Lake, 14 to 1 and 13 to 8, and Oberlin, 9 to 7, and losing to the Maple Leaf Club of Guelph, 3 to 13, and to the Cass Club of Detroit, 9 to 13. The fielding average of the team was .826, the batting average . 27I. McDonell had a batting average of . 333 for seven games. The team was constituted as follows:
C. C. Smith, 86, c., J. D. Hibbard, '87, p., F. W. Mehlhop, '88, I, A. D. Welton, '88, m.,
W. B. Carpenter, '89, s., W. D. Condon, 86 p, 1.,
F. D. McDonell, '88, 2, H. S. Bush, '88, 3, C. T. Miller, '88, s.,
R. M. Lee, '86 l, r.,
J. M. Jaycox, '87, r.
In the opening game of 1887 the University was defeated at Lansing by the Agricultural College, 9 to 8. May 7, the Detroit Amateurs were beaten in a close game on the campus, 4 to 3. Oberlin was defeated on its own grounds, May 14, by a score of 8 to 7. One week later the Cass team, assisted by several of the Detroit League team, won at Ann Arbor a heavy-hitting game with the score of 18 to II. In later games the University defeated the Detroit Athletics, II to 6, and was defeated by the Hiawathas, Io to II, and by the Agricultural College, 9 to II. The defeats experienced by our team were chiefly due to catcher Miller's having been hurt early in the season. No one else could success- fully hold the swift pitching of MacMillan and Hibbard. The fielding average of the team was .869, and the batting was .315. MacMillan's high batting average of .552 for six games led the team. It has been declared that Hibbard, MacMillan, Miller, and McDonnell were four of the best players ever in the University. The team as a whole was as follows:
C. T. Miller, '88, c., J. D. Hibbard, '87, p. & l., T. L. Wilkinson, '90, I, F. D. McDonnell, '88, 2, Lincoln MacMillan, '89, 3 & p., W. H. Muir, '88, 3,
W. B. Carpenter, '89, s., W. H. Booth, '90, 1., C. F. Lawson, '88 p, m., W. C. Malley, '89 l, m., J. M. Jaycox, '87, r.
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As in 1887 the rink was secured for preliminary practice early in 1888. The team selected was composed of the following players:
W. H. Booth, '91 d, c. & m.,. G. P. Codd, '91, p.,
J. R. Sapp, '88 2, s., W. S. McArthur, '89, 1.,
F. D. McDonell, '88, I, J. J. Marker, '90 m, m. & c.,
Lincoln MacMillan, '89, 2, T. N. Jayne, '90, m., W. H. Muir, '88, 3, A. D. Rich, '90, r., T. L. Wilkinson, '90, r.
J. T. Scott, '91, s.,
Beginning with a victory of 5 to 4 at Orchard Lake, April 28, 1888, the University nine played the following games: D. A. C., 5 to II, 15 to 10, and 9 to 2; Hiawatha, 3 to 3 in twelve innings; Cass, 3 to 9, 9 to 8, and 10 to 7; Jackson, I to 9; Agricultural College, 15 to 5, making six victories, three defeats, and one tie. That year's work was memorable for the batting of McDonell and MacMillan, whose averages for nine and eight games respectively were .448 and .406. As for the team as a whole, it was better in fielding than in batting, the average for the former being .908, an exceptionally high figure, while the batting average was only .21I. Of the work of the team for 1888 The Chronicle of October 27, 1888, said:
" All friends of the University will be glad to learn of the wonderful success of the University Baseball Association for the season. After defeating some of the leading teams in the state, and securing victories over others that for years held the palm, our team withdrew at the end of the season with an unprecedented and remarkably brilliant record. But this was not all: the financial success was equally remarkable. The team was fitted out with elegant new suits, and every- thing else was obtained to put the nine in first class shape, and after this, and after all the other incidental expenses have been met, there is still a surplus of $50 in the treasury ".
The rink could not be secured for baseball practice in 1889, and as the team had lost three excellent players the prospects for success were not bright. A team was selected as follows:
W. H. Booth, '91 d, c., C. S. McIndoe, '89 d. c., T. L. Wilkinson, '90, 1.,
G. P. Codd, '91, p., A. D. Rich, '91, I, P. R. Gray, '91, 2, J. H. Todd, '90, 3,
E. R. Lewis, '91, s.,
G. W. Denney, '91, 1., T. N. Jayne, '90, m., J. J. Marker, '90 m, r.
The nine for 1889 was at the outset defeated by the Kalamazoo professionals, 3 to 8, and by the D. A. C., 7 to 15. Then came victories over the M. A. A., 12 to 4, the Owashtanongs of Grand Rapids, 25 to I, and the Agricultural College, 18 to 5. But the return game with the Agricultural College resulted in a defeat, Io to 12. June 24 our team beat the Cass Club 10 to 9. The batting average of the team for 1889 was . 328, Jayne's individual
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average for six games being .532, and Wilkinson's being . 424. The fielding average of the team was .846.
Early in 1890 an Eastern trip in which a defeat could be administered to Cornell was planned, and an unusually large number of candidates for the team appeared at the rink, which had been rented for preliminary practice. The team for the season was the following:
W. H. Booth, '91 d, c., G. P. Codd, '91, p., A. D. Rich, '91, I, P. R. Gray, '90, 2, J. H. Todd, '90, 3,
August Bauer, '91 l, s., T. L .. Wilkinson, '90, 1., J. J. Marker, '90 m, m., L. I. Abbott, '91 l, r., E. R. Lewis, '91, sub.
In the first regular game of the season of 1890, which was played with the Detroit League Club, the latter won by a score of Io to I. On the third of May the M. A. A. team was beaten at Ann Arbor, 15 to 2. On the fourteenth of May the team started on the first Eastern trip ever undertaken by a Michigan nine, and stopping at Detroit it defeated the D. A. C., 6 to 5. At Ithaca, May 16, a close and exciting game was played with Cornell, Michi- gan winning, 2 to 1. Over-confidence the next day lost the game played with Colgate University, in which the score was 7 to 10. Later games that season were as follows: Oberlin, 7 to 6, 11 to 13, 8 to 5; D. A. C., 19 to 6; Agricultural College, 19 to 5; Cass, 7 to 3. The record for the year was eight victories and three defeats. The fielding average was .911, the batting .264. Abbott led the batting with an average of . 389 for six games. To the remarkable pitching of Codd much of the success of that year, as of the pre- ceding season, was due.
In 1890-91 the management of all athletic sports was entrusted to one association. An Eastern trip with games against Harvard and Yale was arranged early in the winter, and much enthusiasm was aroused, seventy five candidates for the team handing in their names. From the first of February every candidate was pledged to keep up strict training. Daily practice was had in the rink until the weather permitted the use of the campus, after which a class team was pitted every afternoon against the University nine. Peter Conway, the famous pitcher of the National League, was secured as a coach for the team, which, when selected, was as follows:
Joseph Walsh, c., G. P. Codd, '91, p., T. E. Robinson, '92 p, p., A. H. Seymour, '92 l, p., A. D. Rich, '91, I, J. H. Kelley, '91 1, 2,
W. W. Pearson. '93 m2, 3, S. C. Spitzer, '94, s.,
T. L. Wilkinson, '90, 1., W. H. Booth, '91 d, m., L. I. Abbott, '91 7, r & c.
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The season of 1891 began with victories over the Agricultural College, 10 to o and 26 to 4, and Oberlin, 25 to o. On the 9th of May 1, 200 students went to Detroit in a special train to see the University defeat Cornell 8 to 6. One week later Northwestern was beaten 15 to 3. May 22 the team departed upon its visit to the Eastern colleges. Hamilton was easily defeated, 18 to 3, but the University of Vermont, which had hired a non-student pitcher for the game, won a victory from us with a score of 2 to 6, our team securing but two hits from the opposing pitcher. The game at New Haven on the 26th of May was also a defeat for us, but it was almost as good as a victory. Yale made only three hits off Codd, not having been held to that number by any other pitcher during the season; and the two runs made by our opponents re- sulted from passed balls on a slippery ground. Michigan although making six hits secured no runs. A close game at Brown was lost by us, 2 to 5. Our nine then defeated Wesleyan, 6 to 3, Trinity 20 to 3, and Harvard 4 to 3, so that the result of the expedition was four victories and three defeats. On this trip Michigan made 52 runs, 63 hits, and 24 errors against 25 runs, 38 hits, and 32 errors made by its opponents.
After the return of the team the D. A. C. was defeated, II to I, and the M. A. A. lost a game to us during Commencement week. During the year fourteen games were played, of which all but three were won. Again Codd's fine pitching was largely responsible for the success of the team, but the heavy batting of Wilkinson, Rob- inson, Pearson, Codd, Kelley, and Spitzer, and the fine fielding of the team at critical times, contributed to the gratifying results of the season. The batting average of the team was .309, Wilk- inson's individual average for the thirteen games played by him be- ing . 405, while Robinson for five games had an average of . 458. The fielding average of first baseman Rich in 12 games was .953, and . Abbott as right field and catcher had an average of .970.
In 1892 Conway was again secured as coach; T. E. Robinson, '92 p, was captain; and the team was made up thus:
F. E. Bowerman, '93 p, c. & m., E. F. Spurney, '93 7, 2,
Frank Crawford, '93 l, c. & 1., W. W. Pearson, '93 112, 3,
T. E. Robinson, '92 p, p. & r., S. C. Spitzer, '94, S.,
G. P. Codd, '93 7, p. & r., C. B. Smeltzer, '94, l. & c.,
A. H. Seymour, '92 /, p. & 1., A. W. Jefferis, '93 /, I,
E. C. Shields, '94, m.
Worth W. Pepple, '95, played six games as third baseman, and W. J. Harness, '94, pitched two games for the team. Codd played in seven games only, and Smeltzer in eight.
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About the middle of April the team began a two weeks' tour during which Albion was beaten 18 to 3, Wisconsin 7 to 4, Beloit 13 to I, Illinois 18 to o, Northwestern 14 to 4, and Olivet 15 to o. Michigan however, was defeated by Notre Dame, 4 to 6. Two games were then played at Ann Arbor with the D. A. C., one of which was a tie, 4 to 4, while the other was a defeat, 1 to 2. Likewise at Ann Arbor were played games with Albion and Northwestern, both victories, 13 to 2 and 15 to o. During a second Eastern trip Yale was beaten 3 to 2, Lafayette 6 to o, Lehigh 12 to 4; but Michigan was defeated by Pennsylvania, 2 to 5, by Princeton, 9 to 4, by Harvard 4 to 2, and by Toronto 5 to 4. A game with Brown was ended by Michigan's withdrawing from the field because of unfair umpiring, when the score was 2 to I against Brown. In the autumn of 1892 the University was defeated by the D. A. C., 4 to II, on the grounds of the former. Of the twenty games played in 1892 Michigan won eleven and lost seven. Our team made 161 runs against 67 scored by our opponents. Of the six- teen games played to a finish with other colleges we gained eleven and lost five, two of the latter by a single run and two by two runs. Spitzer and Bower- man led the batting with averages of . 315 and . 305 respectively, and Crawford as catcher and left field had the. high average of .976 in HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE. seventeen games, while Jefferis played nineteen games at first base with a fielding average of .974. Spitzer played nineteen games as short-stop with only five errors, and had a fielding average of . 934.
During the season of 1893 Frank Crawford, '93 l, had the captaincy of the baseball team, the manager being H. G. Cleave- land, '93 l. The nine was as follows:
Frank Crawford, '93 l, c., S. C. Spitzer, '94, s.,
G. F. Rich, '93 7, 1.,
H. B. Krogman, '94, p., A. W. Jefferis, '93 7, I, E. C. Shields, '94, m.,
E. F. Spurney, '93 1, 2,
C. B. Smeltzer, '94, r.
W. W. Pearson, '93 1, 3,
The substitutes were C. C. MacPherran, '95, R. E. Russell, '96,
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T. P. Griffin, '93 l, and M. A. Banks, '95 d. Eighteen games were played during the three months of the season; of these Mich- igan won fourteen. Of the sixteen games played with other colleges our University won thirteen, being defeated twice by Cor- nell and once by Minnesota. The club went to Ithaca for a game with Cornell, but proceeded no further East. The teams of Ill- inois, Northwestern, and Wisconsin, lost two games apiece to us, and Albion, Kentucky, Centre, Purdue, Denison, Minnesota, and Iowa, each lost one game. Of the two games played with the D. A. C., one was gained, the other was lost. Michigan scored 21I runs as against 103 made by opposing teams. The team as a whole was not as strong as that of 1893, its greatest weaknesses being in the pitcher's box and at the bat. During the second game with Cornell, which was played at Detroit, May 30, the bases were twice filled by Michigan with nobody or only one out; but the single hit needed to win the game was not forthcoming, and Cornell won 6 to 5.
For 1894 George J. Cadwell, '94, was manager, and E. C. Shields was captain. The team was constituted thus:
C. B. Smeltzer, '94, c., J. W. Hollister, '95 7, p., H. B. Krogman, '94, p., James Baird, '96, s.,
Ray Hart, '95 /, I, W. D. Mckenzie, '96, I, < S. C. Spitzer, '94, 2, R. E. Russell, '96, 2,
E. V. Deans, '96 d, 3, W. W. Pepple, '95, s.,
W. W. Waterman, '97, 1.,
E. C. Shields, '94, m.,
L. J. Wentworth, '94, r.
During the season of 1894 nineteen games were played, Mich- igan winning eleven. The team easily defeated the nines of the Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin colleges-although Oberlin beat it- but venturing in Eastern territory it met with an unbroken series of rebuffs from Vermont, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, and Cornell. After returning home the club recovered from its tempo- . rary demoralization, and by the close score of 3 to 2 defeated on Decoration Day at Detroit the nine of the new University of Chi- cago, an institution which is now our chief competitor in baseball.
In 1895 E. C. Weeks, '95, acted as manager of baseball affairs, and E. C. Shields, '96 , was the captain of the team, which was made up as follows:
W. F. Holmes, '96 h, c., J. C. Condon, '96, c., F. J. Sexton, '98 m, p., C. F. Watkins, '96 p, p. & r., W. D. Mckenzie, '96, I,
J. A. Bloomingston, '96 7, 2, E. V. Deans, '96 d, 3, R. E. Russell, '96, s., W. W. Waterman, '97, 1., E. C. Shields, '96 l, m.
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This team, which was one of the strongest we have had, defeated with little trouble most of the Western college nines which it played, but of the Eastern teams it met Cornell only. The latter was successful in a 2 to 1 game at Ithaca, but was defeated May 30, at Detroit, by the score of II to o. Chicago beat Mich- igan 13 to I in Chicago, but lost the return game at Ann Arbor, 6 to 4.
For 1896 the veteran player, E. C. Shields, was manager, and W. F. Holmes was captain. As for the team, it contained the fol- lowing undergraduates:
W. F. Holmes, '96 h, c., J. C. Condon, '96, c.,
J. A. Bloomingston, '96 7, 2, E. V. Deans, '96 d, 3,
A. H. Kinmond, '98 d, c., D. J. Lowney, '99 1, S., J. W. Hollister, '96 Z, 1.,
C. F. Watkins, '96 p, p.,
G. A. Miller, '98, p., E. C. Shields, '96 l, m.,
W. D. Scott, '98 l, p., W. D. Mckenzie, '96, I,
D. C. Mckinney, '98 d, r.
That year no games were played with Eastern teams except with Toronto, which was beaten 13 to 8. There were twenty-two contests, Michigan winning seventeen, losing four, and tying one, and scoring 248 times while its opponents scored 124. The col- leges defeated were Albion, Ohio State (twice), Wittenberg, Indiana, Illinois (twice), Oberlin (twice), Wisconsin (twice), and Toronto. A series of five games was played with Chicago, and after each team had won two games the final contest was awaited with great eagerness. Just before it was played the management learned that two of the Michigan men had recently played under assumed names on a professional team. The Board of Control immediately debarred the offenders from further contests, and by this and a previous ruling three of the best men were taken from the team. Consequently the final game with Chicago was lost. No other college defeated Michigan in 1896.
The manager for 1897 was A. L. C. Atkinson, '98 7; Guy A. Miller, '98, was captain; and the team-necessarily composed chiefly of new players-was as follows:
G. W. Lunn, '99, c., H. S. McGee, 'oo, c.,
W. E. Sullivan, '98 p, 3, Francis McMurray, '99 1/2, S.,
G. A. Miller, '98, p., W. F. Wolf, '99 l, s.,
O. A. Ludlow, '98 7, 1.,
T. M. Sawyer, '98, p., F. C. Condon, '99, I, C. F. Heard, '98 m, 2, E. L. Cooley, '99, 2,
J. R. Sheean, '98, m.,
J. E. Butler, '98, r.
From this new and inexperienced team little was expected; yet it made a creditable showing. It was defeated by the Detroit
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League nine, o to 6; by Wittenberg, (which, though a college team, included six professionals), 7 to 17; by Notre Dame, 3 to 18; by Cornell, 2 to 14 and I to 6; by Wisconsin, 5 to 15 and 14 to 15; by Illinois, o to 3; and by Chicago, 3 to 5, I to 4, and 3 to 24. It defeated Chicago 5 to 3, Ohio State II to 4, and the Detroit Athletic Club 13 to 9.
In the spring of 1898 a series of games with Chicago, North- western, and Illinois was commenced. Thus far Michigan has won three of four games played with Chicago, one of three with Illinois, and both of the two played with Northwestern. A. H. Keith, '98, is the manager of baseball interests for 1898, and J. E. Butler is captain of the Michigan team, which is constituted as follows:
G. W. Lunn, '99, c., A. Thompson, 99 d, c. & r.,
W. F. Wolf, '99 4, 3, F. L. Gilbert, 'OI, s.,
G. A. Miller, '98, p., D. M. Matteson, 'oo d, s. & 1.,
Edwin McGinnis, 'oo, m.,
H. E. Lehr, '98 d, p., F. C. Condon, '99, I, M. L. Davies, 'oo, 1., J. E. Butler, '98, r.
E. L. Cooley, '99, 2,
Baseball is with us an exceedingly popular sport. Probably three hundred different students play it every spring. All of the literary classes, and many of the classes in the professional depart- ments are represented by nines, which not only play against the University team, but engage in league contests with one another. Eleven years ago the leading secret societies formed a baseball league and fought for the fraternity championship, a "spread" paid for by the defeated nines being the reward of success. By a rule recently adopted a member of the University team is pro- hibited from playing on a class or fraternity nine, as an injury received in an unimportant game might cause the loss of an inter- collegiate match.
In the autumn of 1866 the sophomores purchased a football, ยท and the college paper declared that every afternoon excited " sixty- nine " men could be seen in their shirt sleeves running after the ball "with zeal so unremitting that had it been turned in the direction of learning it could not have failed to have placed them at the head of whatever profession they might have chosen". One year later the sport was said to have gone "to a grave too cold by far". In 1869-70 the game was revived, and the first football match of which record remains was played April 23, 1870, between the freshmen and sophomores ('73 and '72). " Football", said The Chronicle, "is a new institution on the campus, and bids
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