Penn Baseball in the 19th Century Varsity Team Records, 1867-1900 1896 Varsity Team

Summary

University baseball team, 1896

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Penn started this season winning 6 in a row, but played like a .500 team for the rest of the year going 8-8. They ended the season with 14 wins and 8 losses. Also, the Penn Freshman team was recorded as playing 2 games this year against Harvard winning once and losing once.

Note that the list of team members varies slightly from source to source. Included here is everyone named in the 1896 yearbook, the Athletic Association history of Penn athletics published in 1913, or both.

The yearbook lists fourteen men on this team: one catcher, four pitchers, a shortstop, three basemen, three fielders and two substitutes. Only Blakely and Gray had been on the previous year’s team.

Team Members

• John Blakely, ’98 Law, captain
• Albert Harris Smith Cantlin, ’99
• G. L. Darte, ’96
• P. Z. Gray, ’96 Dental
• William Hoeffer, ’97 Dental
• Thomas Beaver Holloway, ’97 Medical
• J or M. Roy Jackson, ’97 Dental
• J. G. Johnson, ’98 Law
• G or S. P. Middleton, ’96 Law
• William A. O’Donnell, ’99 Law
• Atlee Hoffman Tracy, ’97
• L. Lee Voight, ’97 Dental
• Jerome Wilhelm, ’98
• Charles Whitall Wunder, ’99 Medical

Managers:

• Charles L. McKeehan, ’97
• F. Basil Miles, ’97

Coach:

• Jesse Hall Allen, M.D. 1897