William Fletcher “Will” Murphy Sr. - Media
William Fletcher “Will” Murphy Sr. - Media
MURPHY William F Sr - 1892 Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association Baseball team champions (IU Archives image P0023927)
1892 Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association baseball team champions from Indiana University. William F. Murphy Sr., the pitcher, is at lower left holding the baseball. Image from the Indiana University Archives Photograph Collection (http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/archives/photos/P0023927).
From the 1894 Arbutus yearbook: “The final game of the year was the most memorable of I.U.'s battles. It was played with DePauw here on Decoration Day [now known as Memorial Day]. Each team had defeated all of the other college teams in the Association...The game...was hard fought from beginning to end. The score was tied four times, and only in the last inning was made 13 to 11, in our favor."
From the 1894 Arbutus yearbook: “The final game of the year was the most memorable of I.U.'s battles. It was played with DePauw here on Decoration Day [now known as Memorial Day]. Each team had defeated all of the other college teams in the Association...The game...was hard fought from beginning to end. The score was tied four times, and only in the last inning was made 13 to 11, in our favor."
MURPHY William F Sr - Championship baseball game of 1892 in which IU won the Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association Baseball Championship (P0032101)
Championship baseball game of 1892 in which Indiana University won the Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association Baseball Championship. William F. Murphy Sr. pitched for IU in this game. From IU Archives Photograph Collection (http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/archives/photos/P0032101).
Written on the reverse side of this image can be found the following: "This game was played at Bloomington, Indiana, May 30th, 1892, between the Indiana University and DePauw University, and was the deciding game of the InterCollegiate Championship Series of 1892. There was an enormous crowd and wild excitement. 300 DePauw students went down to witness the game and both sides were determined to win. Indiana University won the game be a score of 13 to 11. This gave her the pennant of 1892."
This is the only known photograph showing what was known as the IU Athletic Park on the old Seminary Square Campus.
Written on the reverse side of this image can be found the following: "This game was played at Bloomington, Indiana, May 30th, 1892, between the Indiana University and DePauw University, and was the deciding game of the InterCollegiate Championship Series of 1892. There was an enormous crowd and wild excitement. 300 DePauw students went down to witness the game and both sides were determined to win. Indiana University won the game be a score of 13 to 11. This gave her the pennant of 1892."
This is the only known photograph showing what was known as the IU Athletic Park on the old Seminary Square Campus.
MURPHY William F Sr. - Kansas City 1894
William F. Murphy Sr. Formal portrait taken in Kansas City, MO, 1894.
MURPHY William F Sr - labeled Dad at 28 years
William F. Murphy Sr., formal portrait taken about 1899. William F. Murphy Jr. labeled this photo “Dad at 28 years.”
