Summary
Penn started the season very well with 3 straight wins, but then dropped the next 3 to fall to .500. Their percentage stayed about the same until May 30, when a win over Yale Law School started a 4 game winning streak that seemed to be the lift they needed to distance themselves from equal wins and losses. However, the winning streak was followed by a 4 game losing streak allowing the end of the season to virtually match the beginning. They managed to win 15, lose 14, and tie 1.
Four members of this team went on to play professional baseball: Coogan, Goeckel, Thomas, and Boswell. One player, McGrillis, had played professional ball the previous year.
Note that the list of team members varies slightly from source to source. Included here is everyone named in the 1893 yearbook, the Athletic Association history of Penn athletics published in 1913, or both.
Team Members
- Walter Smith Thomson, ’94, captain
- Clarence S. Bayne, ’95 Dental
- J. Edward Blair, Medical ’95
- Andrew Cottrell Boswell, ’96
- Robert G. Contrell, Medical ’95
- Daniel George Coogan, ’95
- William John Goeckel, ’95 Law
- Miles Atlee Hoffman, ’96 Medical
- Charles Hollister, ’95 Medical
- Mark McGrillis, ’94
- G. W. Reese, ’95 Medical
- Walter Thayer, ’96
- Roy Allen Thomas, ’94
Manager:
- John Falconer Sinclair, ’93
Coach:
- Irwin (maybe Frank N. Irwin, Medical ’93)
| Date | Opponent | Location | Score | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn | Opponent | ||||
| March 27 | Swarthmore | University Grounds | 18 | 2 | Win |
| March 29 | Swarthmore | University Grounds | 59 | 1 | Win |
| March 30 | Yale | University Grounds | 11 | 6 | Win |
| April 2 | Philadelphia | University Grounds | 6 | 15 | Loss |
| April 4 | Philadelphia | University Grounds | 6 | 9 | Loss |
| April 5 | Yale | University Grounds | 7 | 8 | Loss |
| April 6 | Harvard | University Grounds | 12 | 12 | Tie |
| April 9 | Philadelphia | Philadelphia Ball Park | 1 | 19 | Loss |
| April 15 | University of Vermont | University Grounds | 12 | 29 | Loss |
| April 17 | Trinity | University Grounds | 35 | 8 | Win |
| April 20 | Philadelphia | Philadelphia Ball Park | 1 | 19 | Loss |
| April 22 | Columbia | University Grounds | 28 | 1 | Win |
| April 24 | Wesleyan | University Grounds | 30 | 2 | Win |
| April 26 | Georgetown | University Grounds | 15 | 2 | Win |
| April 29 | Lehigh | Bethlehem | 17 | 4 | Win |
| May 6 | Yale | New Haven | 4 | 5 | Loss |
| May 9 | Lehigh | University Grounds | 18 | 7 | Win |
| May 10 | Harvard | University Grounds | 7 | 6 | Win |
| May 11 | Cornell | University Grounds | 2 | 5 | Loss |
| May 20 | Lafayette | Easton | 21 | 1 | Win |
| May 24 | Princeton | Princeton | 8 | 20 | Loss |
| May 27 | Princeton | University Grounds | 4 | 5 | Loss |
| May 30 | Yale Law School | University Grounds | 19 | 7 | Win |
| May 31 | Lafayette | University Grounds | 12 | 1 | Win |
| June 3 | Johns Hopkins | University Grounds | 16 | 3 | Win |
| June 7 | Princeton | Princeton | 4 | 2 | Win |
| June 9 | Cornell | Ithaca | 5 | 7 | Loss |
| June 10 | Cornell | Ithaca | 3 | 6 | Loss |
| June 12 | Harvard | Cambridge | 4 | 10 | Loss |
| June 14 | Harvard | Cambridge | 8 | 14 | Loss |