FEATURES
1909. A modest, fifty-foot swimming pool is added to the gym.
1900. Curtis Eves arranges the first interscholastic athletic contest, a basketball game against Friends Central, which George School wins, 55-4.
1902. A quarter-mile running track is constructed on the grounds in the location of the present Cougar Track.
1913. The boys’ athletic program includes interscholastic teams in soccer, basketball, swimming, tennis, track, and baseball. There had also been one trial interscholastic football game and several seasons of lacrosse.
1920. George School Committee, the school’s
1903. The area surrounded by the running track is graded, named Sharon Field, and put into use for soccer, baseball, and intramural football.
board of trustees, authorizes interscholastic competition for girls in hockey, basketball, and tennis. Grace Thwing (Thwingie) is hired as director of girls’ physical education. Thwingie’s biographer wrote, “She has proved through her work that the training of the body can be as beautiful and sensitive a process as the training of the mind; that character development through the intimate acquaintance with the mind, heart, and spirit is as much the ideal of physical education as of any other education.”
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