Iowa Football Visitors Locker Room

Fry had graduated with a psychology degree from baylor university.

Iowa football visitors locker room.

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. When teams travel to kinnick stadium they re greeted with a locker room that s both calming and infuriating. That s why iowa s pink visitors locker room is a tradition unlike any other. Everything in the visiting team s locker room including the ceilings sinks and urinals has been painted pink a choice that iowa legend says was made by a football coach with a master s degree.

The most notorious case of psychological locker room warfare can be found in iowa city. The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998. 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. 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.

He had the visitors locker room. A former faculty member said iowa could be open to legal challenge because of the locker room. Like all of it from the. High school and college programs at every level travel to stadiums and temporarily store their stuff in some really sad looking locker rooms.