Iowa Football Visitors Locker Room

High school and college programs at every level travel to stadiums and temporarily store their stuff in some really sad looking locker rooms.

Iowa football visitors locker room.

Hayden fry the native texan who revived iowa football and became a hawkeye state institution over two decades as a big ten coach died on dec. Since 1979 iowa s kinnick stadium has painted its visitor s locker room pink. When teams travel to kinnick stadium they re greeted with a locker room that s both calming and infuriating. Like all of it from the.

The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998. The most notorious case of psychological locker room warfare can be found in iowa city. Iowa city iowa iowa s visiting football locker room received a michigan makeover saturday before the teams squared off in a prime time game at kinnick stadium. In 2014 a professor organized a march in protest and wrote an op ed criticizing the tradition.

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. A former faculty member said iowa could be open to legal challenge because of the locker room. He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people. That s why iowa s pink visitors locker room is a tradition unlike any other.