Football focuses on increasing roster size

Terry Mason, the College’s dean of health and wellness, said that, until early March, the campus memo kept a tallying number of positive cases recorded since the beginning of the spring 2023 semester. Effective March 1, the reporting method changed, with the positive case number representing the amount of students who tested positive within the past two weeks.

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By Eleanor Corbin corbinel@grinnell.edu

Landon Skinner `24 had been at Occidental College for two years when the offensive lineman learned that his school would be discontinuing their football program. Skinner described the time as a “feeding frenzy” of other liberal arts institutions working to recruit anyone still looking to play. His ultimate journey to Grinnell, like many others on his team, began with a call from Head Football Coach Brent Barnes.

Prior to this decision, in 2017, Occidental had to cancel a season with four games remaining as injuries wore down the size of their roster. In 2019, Grinnell College had to make the same call with seven games remaining in the season as their team’s size had dwindled down to 28 players.