Hanover College Triangle on
Golf at Hanover
December 9, 1927
By reading this article from the Hanover Triangle, one can see that
new sports and the opportunities to play them were becoming available at college
campuses around the 1930s. New inventions made the game more desirable to
play and Hanover students really became interested. The approval of a brand
new golf course and a coach willing to help students in golf attracted their
attention.
Golf was invented in Scotland in the twelfth century. It became more
popular in the nineteenth century, and new inventions helped the sport gain
massive support. In the 1900s, new technologies, such as new mowers, came
out to advance the sport. The mowers helped cut the grass shorter, and it
made it easier for golfers to get better scores. In the 1930s, two other new
inventions came out: the metal shaft and the wooden tee. These two inventions
led to better drives and gave golfers more confidence in their play. With
the new technologies that advanced the game of golf, Hanover College students
opened their eyes to something exciting to play. - Zach Wojcik
Source: "Golf,"
Wikipedia.
N.B. The text below is transcribed verbatim, including the occasional typographical
error.
“College Ground Near Ballard’s Probable Links,” Hanover
College Triangle, 9 December 1927, 1.
Golf clubs may become the usual instead of the unusual sight
on the Hanover campus perhaps as early as the coming spring, according to
a petition taken by the executive committee of the board of trustees in
Madison a week ago, when approval was stamped on a proposal fostered by
Coach C. V. Money that the old wheat field adjoining Dr. Frank Ballard’s
home, be made over into a golf course.
The ten acre plot is property of the college, and for the
past few years has been sown in wheat. It would make an excellent location
for a golf course, however, according to Coach Money.
According to plans afoot, should the course become reality,
a golf club among the students and faculty of the college would be organized
and Coach Money would begin preliminary steps toward building up a team
to represent Hanover in state competitions.
Several trustees at the meeting expressed a great deal of
interest in the proposed project, according to officials who attended, and
those from Madison asked that their names be numbered among the players
should a course be laid out.
There are in school this year a number of men students who
have played golf in the past, and a good many more who wish to learn the
game, and there can be little doubt that a course would attract many coed
golfers as well. Money knows the game, and can teach it, and would be glad
to develop the sport, he indicates.
President W. A. Millis is himself no mean golfer, having taught
the game as well as played in other days.