When teams travel to kinnick stadium they re greeted with a locker room that s both calming and infuriating.
Iowa visitor locker room pink.
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.
Former iowa coach hayden fry painted the locker room pink in 1979 and in 2005 more pink was added even pink urinals.
The legendary visitor s locker room at iowa will greet us tonight.
The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998.
He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people.
Fry had graduated with a psychology degree from baylor university.
During a 2005 update of kinnick the toilets lockers etc.
In preparation for their week 11 matchup against the iowa hawkeyes michigan revamped their visitor s locker room in a major way.
Kinnick stadium is well known for its pink visitors locker rooms a tradition started by emeritus iowa coach hayden fry.
That s why iowa s pink visitors locker room is a tradition unlike any other.
Iowa s visitor s locker room is pink you see.
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.