GRINNELL COLLEGE FOOTBALL: New Coach!

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

New Coach!

Micah Johnson is the newest member of the Grinnell College Football coaching staff. He will be coaching up the wide receivers, tight ends, and quarterbacks and we are excited to have a coach of Coach Johnson's background as a part of the Pioneer Football program and are looking forward to him being a part of our success. Read more about Coach Johnson below!

Coach Johnson is originally from Hawaii but later moved to Prescott, Arizona. He went to South Dakota State University and played Wide Receiver for 4 years and graduated in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in biology. For the past three years since attending SDSU, he played football in the CFL for the British Columbia Lions in 2008 for a season and in the NFL on the practice squads of the Atlanta Falcons in 2007 and most recently with the Cincinnati Bengals.

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.