Billy Poe, better known as "Plague Boy" in the team, was the unfortunate victim of a plague. (Bet you couldn't guess that, eh?). And so, when a certain coach was a-wandering, he came upon this strapping young lad with a serious boil problem. Realizing it was something more than just the "teen years doing stuff to his body", he recruited the corpse instead of offering him a (much needed) pustulent boil removal lotion.