GRINNELL COLLEGE FOOTBALL: ALL IN!

Thursday, June 11, 2009

ALL IN!

The 2009 Pioneer team motto is "ALL IN!" Here is what going "All In" means to some of our current players:

Tim McDonald '10: "All In means all teammates join to collectively achieve a goal in a manner that reflects the group's brotherhood"

Robert Seer '12: "All In to me means that you are risking everything to gain everything"

Trenton Bush '12: "All In means that we, as a team, are all in this together, that we give our full efforts, and that we succeed and fail as a unit"

Ryan Creps '12: "All In means never quitting on your team"

Jake McVeigh '11: "All In is to me no regrets. At the end of the day there is nothing more anyone can do"

John Hereford '10: "All In means that each player does whatever it takes for this team to achieve a Midwest Conference Championship"

Ryan Fletcher '11: "Being All In is simple. It means completely devoting yourself to the team and come game time, leaving it all on the field"

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.