College Football Pink Locker Room

The visiting team s locker room at iowa s kinnick stadium was painted dusty rose a shade of pink in the 1970s at the request of former coach hayden fry.

College football pink locker room.

Since 1979 iowa s kinnick stadium has painted its visitor s locker room pink. Clemson s current locker room is gorgeous and the program is now adding a new 55 million football facility which will include a 20 000 square foot weight room and a barber shop. Former iowa coach hayden fry had the hawkeyes visiting locker room painted pink in 1979 purportedly as a means to gain a pregame psychological advantage against opponents. Associated press file photo ap.

Kinnick stadium is well known for its pink visitors locker rooms a tradition started by emeritus iowa coach hayden fry. He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people. I taped up just about every body part imaginable so i consider that close enough to being in the locker room. I was an athletic trainer for the football team and while it wasn t acceptable in 1985 for a woman to be in the men s locker room our training table was right outside the always open door.

The most famous visitor s locker room has to be in kinnick stadium where everything from the walls to the urinals and lockers are pink thanks to a special touch from former head coach haden fry put his degree in psychology to good use. Fry had graduated with a psychology degree from baylor university. But not everyone is a fan of the pink locker room. When teams travel to kinnick stadium they re greeted with a locker room that s both calming and infuriating.

Then head coach hayden fry learned of pink s subliminal. Like all of it from the walls to the lockers to the toilets. Believing that pink would put opponents in a passive mood and because he thought that some believed pink was a sissy color fry had the visiting locker rooms decorated completely in the color pink.