Current iowa coach kirk ferentz called the story fun if not entirely correct.
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During a 2005 update of kinnick the toilets lockers etc.
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Big 10 players and coaches weigh in on the pink locker room.
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.
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For the past 40 years the kinnick stadium locker room for visiting teams has been painted pink and during a 2004 renovation pink lockers toilets and showers were installed.
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Kinnick stadium is well known for its pink visitors locker rooms a tradition started by emeritus iowa coach hayden fry.
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.
In 2005 iowa repainted the locker room as part of a stadium renovation to include pink everything else.
Fry had graduated with a psychology degree from baylor university.
He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people.
The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998.
When he started coaching at iowa in 1979 he ordered the walls in the visiting room to be pink.
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