GRINNELL COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Three Pioneers Make Dean's List

Monday, January 23, 2012

Three Pioneer Football players were named to the Grinnell College Dean's List for the Fall Term 2011:

Trent Baker '15 Drew Blumberg '13 TJ Schaid '13

These intelligent guys were three of 62 Pioneer student-athletes named to the Dean's List. Congrats men!

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.