Summary
University baseball team, 1899
This year Penn baseball had its share of ups and downs. They started off the season just 2-6, including an 0-3 record on the southern trip, but continued their winning ways in May taking 9 straight before dropping a close one to Lehigh on May 30. Solid fielding and hitting in muddy conditions on May 13 and May 27 turned out to be two of the team’s defining games in a year filled with uncertainty. They finished the season with a 14-12 record.
Note that the list of team members varies slightly from source to source. Included here is everyone named in the 1899 yearbook, the Athletic Association history of Penn athletics published in 1913, or both.
Team Members
- Frederick R. Gillinder, ’00, captain
- Theodore E. Brown, ’00
- William Shreve Collier, ’02 Medical
- Frank Flavell, ’01
- Bertram G. Frazier, ’99 Law
- Robert Smith Gawthorpe, ’01
- A. Hayden
- Joseph Hollingsworth Huston, ’98
- Daniel John Layton, ’00
- William H. C. Ramsey, ’99
- John M. Ruegenberg, ’99
- Hermann Louis Shape, ’99 Dental
- Alvan Woodward Sherrill, ’01 Medical
Manager:
- Thomas Blaine Donaldson, ’99
| Date | Opponent | Location | Score | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn | Opponent | ||||
| April 8 | Manhattan | Franklin Field | 1 | 12 | Loss |
| April 12 | Syracuse | Franklin Field | 6 | 5 | Win |
| April 15 | State | Franklin Field | 11 | 9 | Win |
| April 17 | Virginia | Charlottesville | 3 | 18 | Loss |
| April 18 | Virginia | Lynchburg | 4 | 6 | Loss |
| April 19 | Georgetown | Washington | 0 | 9 | Loss |
| April 22 | Vermont | Franklin Field | 3 | 6 | Loss |
| April 29 | Lafayette | Easton | 2 | 8 | Loss |
| May 1 | Brown | Franklin Field | 4 | 3 | Win |
| May 3 | Lehigh | Franklin Field | 8 | 7 | Win |
| May 6 | Cornell | Franklin Field | 6 | 4 | Win |
| May 10 | Wesleyan | Franklin Field | 10 | 9 | Win |
| May 13 | Cornell | Ithaca, N.Y. | 8 | 0 | Win |
| May 17 | Georgetown | Franklin Field | 14 | 11 | Win |
| May 20 | Harvard | Franklin Field | 3 | 0 | Win |
| May 24 | Lafayette | Franklin Field | 9 | 8 | Win |
| May 27 | Manhattan | New York | 6 | 4 | Win |
| May 30 | Lehigh | Bethlehem | 4 | 5 | Loss |
| June 3 | Columbia | Franklin Field | 11 | 2 | Win |
| June 6 | Michigan | Franklin Field | 1 | 4 | Loss |
| June 9 | Holy Cross |
Worcester, Mass. |
7 | 8 | Loss |
| June 10 | Harvard | Cambridge | 6 | 7 | Loss |
| June 12 | Brown | Providence | 8 | 2 | Win |
| June 17 | Chicago | Chicago | 3 | 9 | Loss |
| June 19 | Chicago | Chicago | 3 | 6 | Loss |
| June 21 | Chicago | Chicago | 7 | 1 | Win |