Well, this is something for a slow off-season Monday morning:

I did a little digging, and I found this:

Sports

         Team name:  After L.G.I. added military training, the Telegraph occasionally refers to teams as “Cadets” or  

                              “Grovers.”  Georgia High School Football Historians Association uses the name “Bobcats.”

         Colors:  A 1922 account of a game with Tech High School of Atlanta notes that both teams wore yellow  jerseys.

L.G.I. seems to have offered a full complement of sports.  College football Data Warehouse shows games as early as 1905. Sixth District opponents included Georgia Military Academy, Gordon Institute, Griffin High School, and Lanier High School.  L.G.I. occasionally stepped up into college competition.  They tried their hand against Mercer, Piedmont, Oglethorpe and even Georgia–a 101-0 loss.

L.G.I. played baseball against the same opponents and was one of the first schools in the area to embrace basketball.  The Telegraph reported in 1913 that girls basketball was to become “a permanent part of school life.”   Each year the G.I.A.A. Sixth District Field Day offered competition in track and field.

Here’s a picture of the club:

On another note, what’s with all the competition against Schools for the Deaf? I notice this happened in Texas more than anywhere else, where it comes to college ethics seems to be schools for the blind.

Bonus points for Vanderbilt finding away to only compete against themselves, which seems to track with modern Commodore football, where their biggest enemy is themselves.