the Informer

It wasn’t quite the “43-2” score President Walter Harrison predicted his faculty and staff team would lose by, but it wasn’t pretty. Wednesday on the University Green, Harrison and his teammates managed to put three runs on the board against a team of students in their annual softball game.

But it’s not about the score, or who wins, or who loses, Harrison said. “Traditions are really important for every campus. I can’t even remember who won what year, or what the scores were,” Harrison said. Harrison retold the story of his first year as president at the University.

He had just finished speaking at an event, still in business attire, he stepped up to bat. He hit the ball, “took two steps” and wiped out, Harrison said.

Harrison said The Informer printed a photo of him wiped out on the campus grass, but that issue is mysteriously missing from the paper’s archive. Harrison’s statistics on the day? Impressive, driving home a run on two hits before the fourth inning. Oh, and no wipeouts.