The four page document lists the schedule for the 1912 International YMCA Training School (now Springfield College) baseball team at Springfield College. The first page acts as a title page, as it says Baseball Department Springfield Training School Schedule 1912. The second page lists the first six scheduled games for the team, which includes the date and the day of the week the game is occurring on. The seventh game slot is listed as open followed by an eighth slot listing the seventh game. Someone has gone back in and wrote the scores of the second, third, and fourth games on the right side of the document in the correctly labeled spot. Springfield appears to have lost all three of the games. The third page lists the next ten scheduled games for Springfield College. The final page lists some of the coaches of the team, including the head coach Austin Johnson. The last page also lists the name of the team captain for the season, who was Martin R. Chittick. Austin Johnson coached a total of six seasons (1909-1914) and had an overall record of 21-50-0 and a .296 winning percentage. The team began training after Easter vacation, which put them at a disadvantage against many of their rivals. According to the 1914 yearbook, "a lack of unison and co-operation on the part of the men was distinctly felt."
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