Basketball
Ivan Grimm grew up on a farm near Chaska, Minn., and graduated from Chaska High School in 1956. A three-year letterman in basketball, many of the school and Minnesota Valley Conference scoring records he set have yet to be broken. Twice in his high school career he scored 50 points in a game.
Grimm started every game, including the freshman team schedule, for four years at Carleton. His sophomore year he scored 325 points, but was only the third leading scorer on a well-balanced team of primarily seniors which won the Midwest Conference championship. In his junior year, he set the all-time Carleton single season scoring record of 565 points, and added 550 in his senior year. At the time of his induction, no other Carleton basketball player had come within 100 points of either of those figures. It is no surprise, then, that Grimm has held Carleton records for most career points scored, 1,440 and highest point-per-game career scoring average, 22.5. Other school records include most field goals made in a single season and most free throws made in a single game.
The 6′ 8″ center was names to the All-Midwest Conference team in his sophomore, junior and senior years. He captained the Taubemen in 1958-59 and 1959-60, won the Matteson Award and was featured in “Who’s Who in Basketball.”