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Caption: Booklet - Articles and Letters about UI Coaching (1922 Selections)
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE July 14th 1920 CHAMPION COACH QUITS MICHIGAN FOR ILLINOIS NINE LRL LUNDGREN is coming back to Illinois to coach the Baseball t e a m which h e helneri tf\ nitrh to its first champ twenty years ago. Since 1914 successfully the University of Michigan nine tions with the Wolverines have been of tht pleasantest, but his Alma Mater needed him George Huff,after twenty-four years of coaching in which he has won eleven championship* retired coach. name is perman Lundg diamond teams 1900, 1901 and 1902. teams 1902 were Western Champions, and Lundy's pitching was a big factor. Leads Illini Thru East In 1902 as captain Lundgren led the famous Illini nine that invaded the east after cleaning up the west, on that jaunt, immortalized by John McCutcheon in a front page cartoon, Illinois conquered Princeton, West Point, Pennsylvania, and Yale, losing only to Harvard by a 2 to 1 score. Lundgren pitched all these except the West Point game. At Harvard the critics conceded that he outpitched Walter Qarkson who twirled for the crimson, but a patched up infield, the result of an accident in preliminary practice, cost him the victory. Mr. Lundgren was full back on the Illinois Football team in addition to his Baseball work. As Baseball Coach, he will also teach this subject in the four year Athletic Coaching Course which Director Huff established last year.
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