Ivan Grove

{{Short description|American athlete and coach (1894–1984)}}

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| name = Ivan Grove

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|8|18}}

| birth_place = Denver, Colorado, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|1|2|1894|8|18}}

| death_place = Conway, Arkansas, U.S.

| alma_mater =

| player_years1 = 1914–1916, 1919

| player_team1 = Kendall

| player_positions = Quarterback

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1920–1921

| coach_team2 = Oklahoma Baptist

| coach_years3 = 1922–1923

| coach_team3 = Arkansas (assistant)

| coach_years4 = 1924–1955

| coach_team4 = Hendrix

| coach_sport5 = Basketball

| coach_years6 = 1920–1922

| coach_team6 = Oklahoma Baptist

| coach_years7 = 1924–1946

| coach_team7 = Hendrix

| coach_sport8 = Track

| coach_years9 = 1924–1958

| coach_team9 = Hendrix

| admin_years1 = 1924–1959

| admin_team1 = Hendrix

| overall_record = 111–126–16 (football)

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| awards = Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame
Hendrix Hall of Fame (1994)
Tulsa Hall of Fame (1982)

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Ivan H. Grove (August 18, 1894 – January 2, 1984) was an American football, basketball and track coach and college athlete.

College athlete

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.{{cite web|url=http://tulsahurricane.com/sports/2015/4/21/GEN_20140101159.aspx|title=Ivan Grove|publisher=tulsahurricane.com|access-date=January 29, 2018}}

College coach

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.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f83M54N3FE0C&q=ivan+h+grove&pg=PA36|title=The Razorbacks|date=1996 |publisher=University of Arkansas Press|isbn=9781610753364|access-date=January 29, 2018}}

Grove was then hired as the head coach and athletic director at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, where coached until he retired in 1959.{{cite web|url=https://www.hendrix.edu/goodbyegrove/grove.aspx?id=6394|title=Ivan H. Grove|publisher=hendrix.edu|access-date=January 29, 2018}}

Death

In retirement, Grove lived a block from the Hendrix campus. He died on January 2, 1984.{{cite news |author= |title=Hall of famer dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64304484/obituary-for-ivan-hendrix-aged-89/ |newspaper=The Baxter Bulletin |location=Mountain Home, Arkansas |agency=Associated Press |date=January 4, 1984 |page=9 |access-date=November 30, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}

Head coaching record

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| name = Oklahoma Baptist Bison

| conf = Independent

| startyear = 1920

| endyear = 1921

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| name = Oklahoma Baptist

| overall = 5–5

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| name = Oklahoma Baptist

| overall = 3–5–1

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| name = Oklahoma Baptist

| overall = 8–10–1

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| name = Hendrix Bulldogs

| conf = Independent

| startyear = 1924

| endyear = 1927

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| name = Hendrix

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| name = Hendrix Warriors

| conf = Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference

| startyear = 1928

| endyear = 1955

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| name = Hendrix

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| name = Hendrix

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| name = Hendrix

| overall = 1–5

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| name = Hendrix

| overall = 1–6

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| name = Hendrix

| overall = 0–7

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| name = Hendrix

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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Hendrix

| overall = 103–116–15

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{{CFB Yearly Record End

| overall = 111–126–16

| bowls = no

| poll = no

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| legend = no

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See also

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