GRINNELL COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Colorado College Drops Football Program

Friday, March 27, 2009

Colorado College Drops Football Program

Our hearts are with the Colorado College Football Family. I still can't believe they dropped football. We have coaches here with CC ties (I coached there from 2003 - 2007), and Coach Swett was an All-American there in '07. We are doing all we can here at Grinnell to help out.

The Honor G

The Honor G, the official emblem of Grinnell College athletics, was first used at the Iowa state track championship in 1892. Designed by Earnest "Skip" Atherton, class of 1895, the original Honor G consisted of a scarlet maltese cross with a black "I and "C" (for Iowa College) superimposed on the cross. Two years later in 1894, the "I" and "C" were replaced by a black gothic "G", and the modern day Honor G was born. The gothic "G", which was also used on letter sweaters and is now used on letter jackets, was replaced by an Old English "G" in the mid-1930's. After some protest, it was quickly changed back to the gothic "G", and it has remained unchanged since that time.