GRINNELL COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Two-Sport Athletes: Follow Up

Monday, February 9, 2015

Two-Sport Athletes: Follow Up

Ed Hardman in the 60 Meter Prelims at the 2014 Indoor Conference Championship

After our first two indoor track meets of the season, our two-sport guys are starting to have an impact. Though most of them haven't run competitively for at least a year, if not two or more, they're starting to get their track legs. A current look at our all-time top ten list shows the impact they've had already. Hopefully more to come!

60 Meter Dash
#2 Ed Hardman 7.17
#4 Yuki Kawahara (BB) 7.38
#6 Jonathan Braun 7.53
#7 Joe Galaske 7.57
#10 John Mertes 7.60

200 Meter Dash
#7 Ed Hardman 23.30

Ed Hardman is also on the #5 all-time 4x200 team.

Congrats to these guys. I fully expect these lists to look a lot different in three weeks, after our indoor conference championship meet. Keep up the good work!

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.