Penn Baseball in the 19th Century Varsity Team Records, 1867-1900 1898 Varsity Team

Summary

University baseball team, 1898

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Great pitching and fielding were the keys to victory this season as Penn posted 18 of them out of 24, including a 12 game win streak consisting of an undefeated May (8-0). After this win streak however, the team won only 1 out of their next 4 to end the season. But, despite this late season skid, this team had tremendous talent both individually and as a whole, and was therefore one of the best in history to represent Penn on the diamond.

Note that the list of team members varies slightly from source to source. Included here is everyone named in the 1898 yearbook, the Athletic Association history of Penn athletics published in 1913, or both.

Team Members

• M. Delmar Ritchie, ’99 Medical, captain
• Theodore E. Brown, ’00
• Edward L. Cheyney, ’00
• Walter Johnston Coombs, ’00
• A. King Dickson, ’00 Law
• Bertram G. Frazier, ’99 Law
• Joseph H. Huston, ’98
• Mack Roy Jackson, P.G. Dental
• Daniel Layton, ’00
• George J. Schwartz, ’00 Medical
• Alvan Woodward Sherrill, ’01 Medical
• J. DeWitt Robinson, ’98 Law
• Jerome Wilhelm, ’98

Substitutes:

• Frederick R. Gillinder, ’99 Law
• Daniel Layton, ’00
• William Piersol, ’99 Law
• J. Blakely Thatcher, ’00 Medical

Managers:

• Charles McIlvaine, ’98
• Thomas Blaine Donaldson, ’99

Coach:

• Dr. J.M. Murphy