1915 UNIV. of ILLINOIS vs. NORTHWESTERN on May 1, 1915 and U of I WINS, 4-1 @ Northwestern University Field!!!...SOME OF THE ILLINI PLAYERS PLAYED AGAINST THE BOSTON RED SOX in a Spring Game in 1913!!! (That story found below!)

BLEACHER CREATURES, COLLEGE BABES and BASEBALL HISTORY AND HERITAGE! RPPC Champaign Urbana IL 1915 BASEBALL GAME CROWD after Manager G.HUFF Coached the Boston Red Sox and Scouted for them, as Manager/Coach of the U of I University Ball Team! Several Players went on to work for or play for THE BOSTON RED SOCKS!!! Original Mint Condition Photo postcard by professionally trained University of Illinois Student Photographer....Last images of the 1912 Red Sox Ball Team and the 1913 University Ball Teams are supplied for additional reference only.

This card dates back to 1915, the following season for the World Champion Red Sox and their connection to the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, IL! Original antique, mint condition photo postcards, taken by professionally trained U of I Student Photographers who sold by them to help offset their tuition and living expenses. Students were STRAUCH and LLOYD. All cards dated and/or photographer-signed, in 1915...

RARE STORY...1913, THE YEAR AFTER BOSTON RED SOX winning the 1912 WORLD SERIES vs. the NEW YORK GIANTS! They played the University's FIGHTING ILLINI, in a game, held after Boston's Spring Training, was very competitive, with the Sox Pitcher "Smoky Wood" fanning 12 and the U of I Pitcher "Lottie" Larson hold the Sox to a few scattered hits and two runs! Boston won the game 2-0, making this a special game for both the University and the Red Sox! CARD IS IN MINT CONDITION! Shipped USPS Priority Mail!

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About the Ilini's Coach and Manager: George Huff served two stints as the Manager/Coach of the Boston Red Sox in 1907. After that, he went on to become Baseball Manager and Athletic Director and Professional Scout for the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. As the Illini’s baseball coach for 24 years, Huff enjoyed much success, winning 12 conference championships and never finishing lower than second.  “Although Mr. Huff never encouraged his players to enter professional baseball,” the New York Times wrote in its obituary, “some of them were of such unusual ability as to justify it.”  Among his more gifted players was Garland (Jake) Stahl, a slick-fielding first baseman who was destined to win the 1912 World Series as player-manager of the Boston Red Sox. 

Huff’s imprint was all over the 1912 Red Sox; he had worked some with Forrest “Hick” Cady, its substitute catcher, and scouted and signed its starting shortstop, Heinie Wagner, the fireballing right-handed pitcher Joe Wood, and its nonpareil center fielder Tris Speaker.  When the Illini’s baseball season ended each spring, Huff worked as a summertime scout.   In the early 1900s he was part of the Chicago Cubs organization.  But by ’07 he was scouting Texas for the Boston Americans, the team christened the Red Sox in December of that year.  
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1913 University of Illinois Baseball Team Rooster, (could not find the 1915 Ballplayer Info)

Name and Position:

Coach: - George A. Huff ... Manager: - T.A. Fritchey, Jr.

F. M. Bane – RF            G. R. Hess - P

H. F. Cogdall - 2B         L. L. Larson - P

C. H. Fletcher – C         R. E. Thomas - P

A. K. Fogg - 1B              C. H. Watts - P

F. J. Prindiville - 1B      C. J. Kay - 2B

A. S. Nevins - 3B          I. L. Rush - SS

J. C. Phelps - LF-CF       Enos Rowe - RF

J. M. Silkman - RF-LF   E. R. Suter - CF-RF

All items are original, authentic RPPC's...
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About Boston's Coach Manager, a previous ball player for the U of I Fighting ILLINI: Boston's "Jake" Stahl was an American first baseman player and Manager/Coach in Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, and New York Highlanders. Jake Stahl holds a special place in Red Sox history.

Stahl’s baseball career began when he enrolled at the University of Illinois. University of Illinois football coach George Huff (who managed Boston in 1907) encouraged him to try out for the baseball team, since he was such an athlete and was playing football for U & I at the time.

Jake was promoted to the Boston Red Sox as Manager/Coach in 1905, but it was in 1912, that Jake skillfully managed the famous “Speed Boys” to an American League pennant-winning 105-47 season record. The 1912 won-lost season record still stands as the best in Red Sox history, stands out yet today. His Boston team subsequently won the 1912 World Series from the Manager John McGraw-led New York Giants.

Prior to his becoming a Sox Manager, he was a big, powerful, and deceptively fast ball player, coming to the Red Sox in 1903. At 6-foot-2 and 195 pounds, the right-handed Stahl was one of the most intimidating sluggers of the Deadball Era’s first decade. Garland “Jake” Stahl parlayed the skills as a baseball star at the turn of the century into a successful major-league baseball career, primarily with the Boston Red Sox.  

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Original, not reproduction. Shipped very well package, USPS 1st Class postage, or Priority Mail with tracking! Quantity shipping discount refunds sent along with all shipment (dollar bills) where they apply!