Back row, from left to right: Meacham, Fisher (Coach), Swan | second row-Tharp, Jones, Lynch, Loper (Captain), Targgart, Norris.

Last week, we saw the women’s basketball squad, that won the interclass league in 1915.  This image shows the men’s team, which had just captured its sixth consecutive conference championship, having edged out the University of Iowa for the title, once again. From 1908 to 1915, Grinnell was on an epic winning streak, loosing only 12 (out of a 100) games, scoring 3,147 points (to their opponent’s 1,594 points), with two undefeated seasons, and 6 championship titles (besting Kansas, Illinois, Iowa State and the University of Iowa).

Note the gothic G that the basketball team wore as their emblem until the 1930s, when it was changed because students complained it was too difficult to decipher (fans could not tell if it was meant to be a G a C a B, or something else).