The Stadiums Of The Big11Ten: Part 3

KINNICK STADIUM

-Location: Iowa City, Iowa
-School: University of Iowa
-Year Opened: 1929
-Home Record:
-Capacity: 70,585
-Largest Crowd: 70,585 (numerous times)
-Big Game(s): They play Wisconsin for the Heartland Trophy, and we're assuming their Iowa State game is pretty big too.
-Distinguishing Architectural Feature: Nothing too distinguishing.
-Current/Past Traditions: Herky The Hawk. Click on that link for way too much information on Herky.
-Riots: There were a couple articles about riots at Northern Iowa and Iowa State, but none for the Hawkeyes. What the hell else is there to even do in Iowa?
-Other Uses: None officially listed, but we wouldn’t rule out corn harvesting.
-Interesting Fact: This has become a better-known fact in recent years, but the stadium’s visiting locker rooms are painted pink. Former coach Hayden Fry was a psych major and studied that pink tends to suppress aggression. Perhaps some of our own players should be exposed to pink locker rooms more often.

We’re not going to lie, we know little about Kinnick Stadium. Besides maybe Northwestern, this is probably the last school whose stadium to which we’d enjoy making a trek. This is for a number of reasons, not the least of which being the stadium is in IOWA.

Despite all that, Kinnick always seems to be ranked among the toughest stadiums to play in nationwide, and 70,000-plus screaming Hawkeye fans have a lot to do with that. When you’re looking over your team’s schedule in the preseason, you’d much rather have Iowa visit you than vice versa. (Of course, the last three years, your team very well could have kicked Iowa’s ass. So really, we have no point.) Anyway, we can only imagine that the fans get pretty nuts for a big game at Kinnick. If you thought there was nothing to do in State College, try hanging out in Iowa for a semester.

MEMORIAL STADIUM

Indiana does, in fact, have a football team. They're redoing the turf. John Mellencamp donates a lot of money to them. That's about all we could find. Some schools are just basketball schools.