Let's look at UT's schedule, according to the yearbook.
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| 1909 Volunteer |
And then the compiled results.
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| 2014 University of Tennessee Record Book |
Wait, where did the games against Chattanooga end up? The easiest way to do this is to go at them one by one.
March 27 Cincinnati National, at Knoxville - This would be the Cincinnati Reds, the professional team. It should be labelled as an exhibition match and not count as a loss.
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| The Sunday Herald (Boston, MA) - March 28, 1909 GeneaolgyBank.com |
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| Springfield Republican (MA) - March 28, 1909 GenealogyBank.com |
To add confusion, the Sporting Life reports the game as being against Cincinnati U.
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| Sporting Life - April 10, 1909 LA84.org |
UT's The Orange and White gives much more detail about the game. The Orange and White was a student newspaper that began in 1906.
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| The Orange and White - April 9, 1909 |
Ah, but in the box score we find a discrepancy from the blurb in The Sunday Herald. The Rowan that appears in the box score was Jack Rowan, who also went 11-12 that season with the Reds.
April 1-3 Tusculum, at Knoxville - I was having difficulty find any supporting material for the games against Tusculum. I asked Dom Donnelly, the Assistant Athletic Director for Media Relations at Tusculum College, for some assistance, but he didn't have info from that era. I then turned to the libraries at Tusculum College. Kathy Cuff responded saying, "We don’t have any newspaper clippings, press releases, sports reports, etc on the 1909 baseball team and the results of the 1908-09 year. But I did find this in the May 1909 Orange and Black :"
“From the standpoint of winning games, Tusculum has not been very successful this season, but she is due more credit than has been given her. In the first place, we have endeavored to play clean college ball, and with the exception of two games, no one but bona-fide students have played and they have met with the requirements of the Athletic Association and Faculty. In the second place, he have played the best college teams in the country and the majority of them have rank professionals on their teams – men who are at school for no other purpose than to play ball.”
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| The Orange and White - April 9, 1909 |
April 9-10 Emory & Henry, at Knoxville - Two newspapers are only reporting the game on the 10th. I could not find any report in the April 10th edition of The Boston Herald for the game on the 9th.
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| The Sunday Herald (Boston, MA) - April 11, 1909 GenealogyBank.com |
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| Sporting Life - April 24, 1909 LA84.org |
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| The Orange and White - April 19, 1909 |
April 12-13 University of Michigan, at Knoxville - The dates and scores match.
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| Sporting Life - April 24, 1909 LA84.org |
April 15-17 Dahlonega, at Knoxville -the scores match, but the third game went 10 innings.
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| Charleston News and Courier - April 16, 1909 |
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| The Orange and White - April 23, 1909 |
April 23-24 Sewanee, at Knoxville - the scores match.
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| Sporting Life - May 8, 1909 LA84.org |
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| The Orange and White - May 7, 1909 |
Because one doesn't see that many photos of the teams from that era, I include one of William G. Baker, Captain of the team. He played Right Field. He also played fullback for the varsity football team.
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| The Orange and White - May 7, 1909 |
As I was researching this post I found that there's too much information for a single season. I'll stop here at the beginning of May 1909 and pick the remainder of the season up next post.
