College Football Pink 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.

College football pink locker room.

Associated press file photo ap. 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. Kinnick stadium is well known for its pink visitors locker rooms a tradition started by emeritus iowa coach hayden fry. Since 1979 iowa s kinnick stadium has painted its visitor s locker room pink.

He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people. 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. Then head coach hayden fry learned of pink s subliminal. But not everyone is a fan of the pink locker room.

That s why iowa s pink visitors locker room is a tradition unlike any other. Fry had graduated with a psychology degree from baylor university. I taped up just about every body part imaginable so i consider that close enough to being in the locker room. 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.

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. A university professor at the time erin buzubis made it her goal to get the locker room back to normal and iowa fans responded by selling pink. The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998.