Indoor Practice Facility

[blackwidow]

at this point it might get delayed but a few yrs

Horrible timing by the virus :/

[upprdeck]

I was told it was already a few yrs off from happening before any of this happened.. I dont think it was ever past the initial money for pre-design.

[Ken711]

Andy said, on a recent football podcast with Dave Archer, that $18.5MM has been raised for the indoor practice facility (about 75% of total cost).  Would be used by football, lacrosse, club teams. & intramurals.  Get out your checkbooks.  Would be a large, free standing building.  And a game changer.

Looks like they have a great start with the construction funding. It's supposed to be a design similar to Dartmouth's facility which was planned to have their dedication ceremony on May 1.

https://campus-services.dartmouth.edu/projects/projects-construction/indoor-practice-facility

[rss77]

As per Andy's announcement Darmouth's facility is only 75 yards long.  Cornell's will contain a full football field and it will also be able to hold regular season men's and women's lacrosse games.

[Cop at Lynah]

Would it be too much to ask to set aside a small space for a golf simulator to be set up.  I can't remember which other Ivy has that but one has that available to be used by students/staff/faculty

[CAS]

Would be great to have an indoor facility to hold February lax games.

[Ken711]

As per Andy's announcement Darmouth's facility is only 75 yards long.  Cornell's will contain a full football field and it will also be able to hold regular season men's and women's lacrosse games.

Nice,

[Jim Hyla]

Andy said, on a recent football podcast with Dave Archer, that $18.5MM has been raised for the indoor practice facility (about 75% of total cost).  Would be used by football, lacrosse, club teams. & intramurals.  Get out your checkbooks.  Would be a large, free standing building.  And a game changer.

Looks like they have a great start with the construction funding. It's supposed to be a design similar to Dartmouth's facility which was planned to have their dedication ceremony on May 1.

https://campus-services.dartmouth.edu/projects/projects-construction/indoor-practice-facility

I went to look at the pix of Dartmouth's facility and found the quote on a wall in one of the pix.

"Dear old Dartmouth, give a rouse
For the College on the hill..."

I never thought of Dartmouth as being on a hill. So I pulled a topo map.

I guess if you are in the river, it's on a hill. But as you drive in, well it's not much of a hill to me.

[Scersk '97]

I guess if you are in the river, it's on a hill. But as you drive in, well it's not much of a hill to me.

The text for Dartmouth's Alma Mater seems to have been written in 1894, the music in 1908. When the text was written, most students, I imagine, traveled north from White River Junction on the Connecticut & Passumpsic Railroad, which eventually became part of the Boston & Maine. The station was in Lewiston, at the bottom of the hill, along the river.

[Jim Hyla]

I guess if you are in the river, it's on a hill. But as you drive in, well it's not much of a hill to me.

The text for Dartmouth's Alma Mater seems to have been written in 1894, the music in 1908. When the text was written, most students, I imagine, traveled north from White River Junction on the Connecticut & Passumpsic Railroad, which eventually became part of the Boston & Maine. The station was in Lewiston, at the bottom of the hill, along the river.

I guess, I certainly can't come up with another explanation. Once you're on campus it seems pretty flat to me.

To me, CU & SU are examples of schools on a hill.

[Scersk '97]

To me, CU & SU are examples of schools on a hill.

There are probably school songs for midwestern colleges that rattle on about the school "on the hill." If you're from the coastal plain, that tiny rise up from the river to Dartmouth probably seems like a hill; if you're from the mountains, not so much. Many probably didn't get around as much back then.

For me, Cornell was the school "down the road"—I grew up on further north "on the ridge."

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I guess if you are in the river, it's on a hill. But as you drive in, well it's not much of a hill to me.

The text for Dartmouth's Alma Mater seems to have been written in 1894, the music in 1908. When the text was written, most students, I imagine, traveled north from White River Junction on the Connecticut & Passumpsic Railroad, which eventually became part of the Boston & Maine. The station was in Lewiston, at the bottom of the hill, along the river.

I guess, I certainly can't come up with another explanation. Once you're on campus it seems pretty flat to me.

To me, CU & SU are examples of schools on a hill.

And Lehigh.

[scoop85]

I guess if you are in the river, it's on a hill. But as you drive in, well it's not much of a hill to me.

The text for Dartmouth's Alma Mater seems to have been written in 1894, the music in 1908. When the text was written, most students, I imagine, traveled north from White River Junction on the Connecticut & Passumpsic Railroad, which eventually became part of the Boston & Maine. The station was in Lewiston, at the bottom of the hill, along the river.

I guess, I certainly can't come up with another explanation. Once you're on campus it seems pretty flat to me.

To me, CU & SU are examples of schools on a hill.

And Lehigh.

And Colgate

[billhoward]

The NJ town two over from us is Mountainside. Elevation 230 feet.

[billhoward]

And Lehigh.

Amen. Much of Lehigh's main academic campus is built on the equivalent of Libe Slope, with dorms at the top.