Ivan Grove


Ivan H. Grove was an American football, basketball and track coach and college athlete.

College athlete

As a college athlete at the University of Tulsa, he led the nation with 196 points in 1919 Kendall Orange and Black football team as a quarterback under head coach Francis Schmidt.

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.
Grove was then hired as the head coach and athletic director at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, where coached until he retired in 1959.

Head coaching record