GRINNELL COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Four Pioneer Seniors Named to Hampshire Society

Friday, May 18, 2012

Four Pioneer Seniors Named to Hampshire Society

Four Grinnell College football players have been named members of the 2012 National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society.

Those earning the honor were Jimmy Borrasso '12, Logan Granera '12, Chris Jarmon '12 and Brian Westerlind '12.

The society is comprised of college football players from all divisions of play who maintained a 3.2 GPA or better. A total of 727 players qualified for membership in the society's sixth year.

Congrats guys! And congrats on graduation!

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.