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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Mar 13, 2020 12:56:31 GMT -8
Shortest season since the 1948 team went 7-7. The fewest wins since the 1918 team went 4-6. Doc Stewart led the team to a 5-9 record in 1912. After the disastrous 1912 campaign, he switched to coach football, starting in 1913, rather than baseball. He also coached the basketball team. I guess that 1918 team had a similar reason for such a short season. Spanish Flu did not show up in the Pacific Northwest until mid-September 1918, when it appears to be transmitted from Philadelphia, which was something of an epicenter, to Bremerton. From there it was transferred to Tacoma to Astoria by the end of September 1918. The United States declared war on April 2, 1917. Oregon State scrubbed all of the Spring sports for the 1917 season, but resumed with fall sports in 1917. In 1918, there was no baseball coach. The one leftover player from the 1916 team, J.D. Baldwin, organized and coached a team of 10 players to a 4-6 record. 1918 was the only year that Ralph Coleman played. He pitched half the games and C.E. "Dutch" Krueger pitched the other half. The season fell apart when Coleman was called up to active duty in Europe. With only nine players left, the rest of the season was scrubbed. Coleman came back from the War to graduate in 1919 and then stuck around, becoming the baseball coach (the first time) in 1923.
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