College Football Pink Locker Room

The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998.

College football pink locker room.

When teams travel to kinnick stadium they re greeted with a locker room that s both calming and infuriating. 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. 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.

Then head coach hayden fry learned of pink s subliminal. I taped up just about every body part imaginable so i consider that close enough to being in the locker room. He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people. Since 1979 iowa s kinnick stadium has painted its visitor s locker room pink.

Kinnick stadium is well known for its pink visitors locker rooms a tradition started by emeritus iowa coach hayden fry. Associated press file photo ap. 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 had the hawkeyes visiting locker room painted pink in 1979 purportedly as a means to gain a pregame psychological advantage against opponents.

That s why iowa s pink visitors locker room is a tradition unlike any other. Like all of it from the walls to the lockers to the toilets. 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.