University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Beginning in 1927, basketball games were played in Hoch Auditorium, which seated about 4,000.
"IT WAS LIKE playing in an opera house," Parker said. "There was no room at the end of the court. You ran into the wall when you went under the basket for a shot. It was the poorest league. It was kind of a joke, really."
As the student body grew and the demand for seating increased, ticket holders were divided into two groups that attended alternate games.
Dick Hart, former assistant basketball coach and head basketball
mentioned the need for a field house in 1943 to Chancellor Deane W. Mallot
Mallot agreed that KU needed a field house, Harp said, but Mallot didn't want to approach the state for money.
IRONICALLY, THE KU basketball team reached its zenith when Hoch was in its death threes. In 1952 KU clinched the NCAA championship and sent seven players to the Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
But the players, fans, and coaches longed for a new building.
Their dream slowly began to take shape. The Kansas Legislature
However, the dream was always just out of reach. In 1951, construction was postponed pending federal approval of plans of some 10 tons of steel needed for the structure.
agreed to foot the bill, and blueprints were completed by the fall of 1950.
Because of the Korean War, the government ruled that construction that required more than minor annual essential materials would be delayed.
TWO MONTHS LATER, KU officials received the go-ahead from government to replace steel — enough for one-third of the building. In June, construction
Months of anxiety and frustration ended when the steel started to roll out of awareness and jacks on Nov. 27, three years after the pride of Mount Oread was completed.
once again halted. This time, steel workers had gone on strike.
The completed field house, covered with native stone, would be used for enrollment, commencement during the school year. OROTC drills and athletic activities.
But the belle of the ball is now a fading beauty.
TO DRESS UP the aging building, her exterior has been sandblasted. New paint covers cracked walls, and
the original wooden floor and roof have been replaced.
The field house hoards memories like a spinster treasures faded love letters. The alcoves and halls are lined with pictures of clean-cut KU altratic stars and coaches, such as Lynette Woodard, Wilt Chamberlain, Jim Ryun, A.C. "Dutch" Lonborg and Billy Mills.
IN THE FALL of 1982, computers relieved the field house of enrollment. No longer would stamping students race around the second level scrambling to pull enrollment cards.
That same semester, moans echoed against the brick walls. The
arena turned into a hospital for the dying On Sept. 7, 1982, as ABC filmed the "The Day After," a four-hour made-for-TV movie depicting the devastating effects of nuclear War. The film was attended by more than 1,200 blood-caked students playing the role of nuclear fallout victims.
But today, the field house is quiet. Her polished wooden bleachers shine like burnished gold as the sun beams through the eastern windows, and a comforting smell of rubber and Ben-Gay fills the air — she's still the same lady.
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