Ah, the Barn

[scarlet4life]

Remember the swimming pool behind the wall that was in back of the team benches?

I used to take my kids there (around 2005-06) for swimming lessons on Sunday mornings. FB team used to show up and get in the smaller pool at one end of the room. Not the "big fatties," I think it was just skill players. I remember sitting on a bench just after a WVU game and Brian Leonard sat down next to me to take off his shoes, etc. He looked like someone beat him with a bat. Bruises all over him.

 

[srru86]

Now just a couple years later, even those small games are selling out the RAC so probably too late

Add that to the good problems to have list!

 

[srru86]

I totally missed the girl very close to me lose her bikini top when she did her stuff.

I think that's why they say "Keep your head on a swivel"

 

[cRURah]

Indiana:
There were 5 home games remaining after the Lehigh loss. Everyone knew Lloyd was an amazing ft shooter and a shout which caused a miss would have pissed off the crowd even if it wasn't the streak breaker.

A correction on Kaplan. While he led team in scoring his junior year, his record breaking FT season (102/110) was his sophomore year.

In 66-67 season I attended all 11 home games. 2 MSG regular season (Missouri & NYU)
Away games- Lafayette, Lehigh, UConn, And all 4 NIT games.

hey Coral - I was right there too in 66-67. Do you remember the N-I-T chants during the season? how about the loss to an undersized Georgetown during the season? Couldn't get tickets for the NIT semis but saw the game on big screen video at the Barn. Waited in line all night for those tickets. Big screen video in 66-67, can you believe it?

 

[cRURah]

Remember the swimming pool behind the wall that was in back of the team benches?

Physical Education was required when I was at Rutgers College. It was all male back then and we had swimming class in that pool. We had to swim in our jock straps.

 

[RC66_rivals315488]

December 19, 1962, in the balcony of The Barn watching warmups before the Princeton game. During warmups, a Princeton player sinks 45 straight shots from 9 positions around the key without ever touching the rim. "Who's that?!" I ask my fellow freshman and friend, George. George looks at me with disgust and say, "You mean that you really don't know that's that incredible sophomore sensation, Bill Bradley?"

Another great memory of The Barn. Woody Allen doing the "pet ant" monologue later immortalized in Annie Hall. (I think that was also the concert in which Odetta Holmes was the opening act. Odetta was a great folksinger and civil rights activist, later a central figure and performer at the 1963 march on Washington.)

OMG, 59 years ago?!?!

 

[hoquat63]

Physical Education was required when I was at Rutgers College. It was all male back then and we had swimming class in that pool. We had to swim in our jock straps.

When I was there we swam with nothing on.

 

[keywestRU]

I remember “open tryouts“ for the freshman bball team there. Fall of ‘56. Must have been a hundred guys turned out.. My RU court career lasted about five minutes.