Ivan Grove
Biographical details | |
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Born | Denver, Colorado, U.S. | August 18, 1894
Died | January 2, 1984 Conway, Arkansas, U.S. | (aged 89)
Playing career | |
1914–1916, 1919 | Kendall |
Position(s) | Quarterback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1920–1921 | Oklahoma Baptist |
1922–1923 | Arkansas (assistant) |
1924–1955 | Hendrix |
Basketball | |
1920–1922 | Oklahoma Baptist |
1924–1946 | Hendrix |
Track | |
1924–1958 | Hendrix |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1924–1959 | Hendrix |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 111–126–16 (football) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Awards | |
Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame Hendrix Hall of Fame (1994) Tulsa Hall of Fame (1982) | |
Ivan H. Grove (August 18, 1894 – January 2, 1984) was an American football, basketball and track coach and college athlete.
College athlete
[edit]As a college athlete at the University of Tulsa (then known as the Kendall Institute), he led the nation with 196 points in 1919 Kendall Orange and Black football team as a quarterback under head coach Francis Schmidt.[1]
College coach
[edit]Grove spent two years as the head football coach at Oklahoma Baptist University from 1920 to 1921. In 1922, he was hired by Francis Schmidt as the first full-time paid assistant coach at the University of Arkansas, where he coached for two years.[2]
Grove was then hired as the head coach and athletic director at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, where coached until he retired in 1959.[3]
Death
[edit]In retirement, Grove lived a block from the Hendrix campus. He died on January 2, 1984.[4]
Head coaching record
[edit]Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Oklahoma Baptist Bison (Independent) (1920–1921) | |||||||||
1920 | Oklahoma Baptist | 5–5 | |||||||
1921 | Oklahoma Baptist | 3–5–1 | |||||||
Oklahoma Baptist: | 8–10–1 | ||||||||
Hendrix Bulldogs (Independent) (1924–1927) | |||||||||
1924 | Hendrix | 5–3–1 | |||||||
1925 | Hendrix | 6–2–1 | |||||||
1926 | Hendrix | 7–1–1 | |||||||
1927 | Hendrix | 5–3–1 | |||||||
Hendrix Warriors (Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference) (1928–1955) | |||||||||
1928 | Hendrix | 2–5–1 | |||||||
1929 | Hendrix | 6–2–1 | |||||||
1930 | Hendrix | 6–3 | |||||||
1931 | Hendrix | 4–5 | |||||||
1932 | Hendrix | 6–2–2 | |||||||
1933 | Hendrix | 4–4–1 | |||||||
1934 | Hendrix | 3–5–2 | |||||||
1935 | Hendrix | 6–3 | |||||||
1936 | Hendrix | 6–3–1 | |||||||
1937 | Hendrix | 6–2 | |||||||
1938 | Hendrix | 5–4 | |||||||
1939 | Hendrix | 4–4–1 | |||||||
1940 | Hendrix | 3–6 | |||||||
1941 | No team | ||||||||
1942 | No team—World War II | ||||||||
1943 | No team—World War II | ||||||||
1944 | No team—World War II | ||||||||
1945 | No team—World War II | ||||||||
1946 | Hendrix | 1–8 | 1–5 | 7th | |||||
1947 | Hendrix | 4–5–1 | |||||||
1948 | Hendrix | 2–7 | |||||||
1949 | Hendrix | 3–5–1 | |||||||
1950 | Hendrix | 4–4 | |||||||
1951 | Hendrix | 3–4 | |||||||
1952 | Hendrix | 1–5 | |||||||
1953 | Hendrix | 1–6 | |||||||
1954 | Hendrix | 0–7 | |||||||
1955 | Hendrix | 0–8 | |||||||
Hendrix: | 103–116–15 | ||||||||
Total: | 111–126–16 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Ivan Grove". tulsahurricane.com. Retrieved January 29, 2018.
- ^ The Razorbacks. University of Arkansas Press. 1996. ISBN 9781610753364. Retrieved January 29, 2018.
- ^ "Ivan H. Grove". hendrix.edu. Retrieved January 29, 2018.
- ^ "Hall of famer dead". The Baxter Bulletin. Mountain Home, Arkansas. Associated Press. January 4, 1984. p. 9. Retrieved November 30, 2020 – via Newspapers.com
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