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Clockwise: The Iowa Hawkeye 1932 Yearbook. Excerpt from Iowa City Press Citizen , May 24, 1929. Roddy with young golf students. Excerpt from Iowa City Press Citizen, May 1930.
“ RODDY BECAME THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA’S GOLF TEAM CAPTAIN IN 1930 & 1931 AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP AND STATE COLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS DURING HIS SENIOR YEAR IN 1931.”
Press-Citizen reported, “Absence of George Roddy, No. 1 man, weakened the team in the (University of) Chicago and Northwestern duals of last week. Roddy, a Negro, was barred from play- ing on the metropolitan club courses because of his color.” Roddy subsequently received his engineering degree from the University of Iowa on July 16, 1931. A week after
graduating, Roddy came to Des Moines and won the inaugural Midwestern Negro Golf Tournament at Grandview. He was also the National Minority Amateur champion in 1930 and 1937. He went on to lead the Arkansas State College golf team as its coach from 1931 to 1933 and then served as both golf coach and an auto mechan- ics teacher at North Carolina A&T
University from 1935 to 1948. Roddy subsequently moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he became an industrial arts teacher and started the golf pro- gram at Crispus Attucks High School. Roddy returned to competition and won the Indiana City championship in
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