1929 -1930  SCHOOL   YEAR

The untiring efforts of Coaches Wilson and Robison have played a great part in making athletics in Grove what they are today. The football team went through the season without defeat this year, the first time in the history of the school. The baseball team did almost as well. The coaches made it possible for the girls to get into athletics by organizing a track team ; and if they get a gym. by next year, Grove will have a champion basketball team.

People are beginning to see more than ever before that athletics are an essential part of one's training. On the athletic field one is developed physically, mentally, and morally. It is there that you meet yourself face to face and see yourself as you really are. You do not play just to win by foul or fair means, but you play for the mere joy of performing. If you do your very best and do it fair and clean and lose the game  by scores, you haven't lost. If you win by unsportsmanlike play, you haven't won anything.

"For when that great Scorer comes to write against your name,
He writes not that you won or lost, but how you played the game."
A good sport can win without boasting and lose without murmuring.
These are the standards in athletics that the coaches, teachers, students, and players have always tried to uphold and always will try to uphold at Old Grove.