Groh v, Coe

Groh v, Coe

Many colleges require able-bodied students to engage in athletics. If a student hurts himself while competing in sports, can he sue his college for damages? In a Los Angeles hospital last week one Charles Groh, 21, thought that he could. In a damage suit filed against Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) he said that in October 1929 he was required "without physical examination and without the consent of his parents" to enter a cross-country run in a dual meet with Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa). Student Groh ran until exhausted, fell, hurt his spinal column. For four months he was in a hospital. He was given blood transfusions, bone from his leg was grafted into his spine. Student Groh went back to Coe, stayed until a year ago. Now a resident of Los Angeles, he was obliged to return to the hospital for more treatment last week, just as his attorney filed suit for $3,500 for medical expenses, $100,000 for damages.

Coe Coach Forest Rittgers issued a denial that Student Groh had been forced to enter the cross-country race. During all the autumn of 1929, said he, Student Groh had worked out voluntarily.

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