10-10-2019, 03:24 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/sports/grinnell-football-season-canceled.html
“In the midst of another desultory season and with barely enough healthy players to field a team, Grinnell announced last week that it had canceled the remaining seven games on its schedule out of concern for the welfare of its players.
The players voted overwhelmingly to end the season as a protest of what they saw as a consistent lack of support from the administration, something the players say has contributed to the team starting each of the last four seasons with fewer than 40 players, less than half of most opponents on their schedule. After a series of injuries, the team was down to 28 healthy players last week.”
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The school draws its approximately 1,700 students from around the United States and beyond to a quaint campus in central Iowa.
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Grinnell has long called itself “the jewel of the prairie,” but a more apt description might be an island. Two businesses that bookend the town — the gun supply store Brownells and the chemical agricultural giant Monsanto — belie what sits between them: a liberal-minded college with a student body that has twice as many foreign students as ones from Iowa and that emphasizes student participation in school decision-making.If some of the school’s neighbors subsist on the vagaries of the corn and soybean market, Grinnell does not. It sits on a $2 billion endowment built partly on the stock-picking advice of Warren Buffett.“
“In the midst of another desultory season and with barely enough healthy players to field a team, Grinnell announced last week that it had canceled the remaining seven games on its schedule out of concern for the welfare of its players.
The players voted overwhelmingly to end the season as a protest of what they saw as a consistent lack of support from the administration, something the players say has contributed to the team starting each of the last four seasons with fewer than 40 players, less than half of most opponents on their schedule. After a series of injuries, the team was down to 28 healthy players last week.”
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The school draws its approximately 1,700 students from around the United States and beyond to a quaint campus in central Iowa.
>>>
Grinnell has long called itself “the jewel of the prairie,” but a more apt description might be an island. Two businesses that bookend the town — the gun supply store Brownells and the chemical agricultural giant Monsanto — belie what sits between them: a liberal-minded college with a student body that has twice as many foreign students as ones from Iowa and that emphasizes student participation in school decision-making.If some of the school’s neighbors subsist on the vagaries of the corn and soybean market, Grinnell does not. It sits on a $2 billion endowment built partly on the stock-picking advice of Warren Buffett.“
