Everything about College Avenue Gymnasium totally explained
The College Avenue Gymnasium is an athletic facility on the campus of
Rutgers University in
New Brunswick, New Jersey.
It is the second gymnasium built on the site. The first was built in
1892 on the site of College Field, the former RU football field. The first collegiate game of American football was played on the site on
November 6,
1869, with Rutgers beating
Princeton University, 6 goals to 4 (roughly 42-28 under today's scoring).
The old gym burned down in
1930, and the replacement went up in
1931. Officially, it's the College Avenue Gymnasium, but it's known to the RU community as "The Barn." Most of the seating is in the form of a balcony on three sides, upstairs from the court level, giving the gym one of the most intimate settings in Eastern college basketball while it was RU's main venue for the sport. Seating capacity has been approximately 3,200 throughout its existence.
Rutgers reached its only NCAA
Final Four in the
1975-76 season, going undefeated until losing to the
University of Michigan in the National Semifinal. Home games at The Barn became festive affairs, with the crowd yelling so loudly that paint chips fell from the ceiling. RU knew it was time to build a bigger home court, and the Rutgers Athletic Center was built across the
Raritan River in
Piscataway in time for the
1977-78 season. It was renamed the
Louis Brown Athletic Center in
1986.
The College Avenue Gym remains the home of RU's wrestling and volleyball teams, the Rutgers University
Dance Marathon, as well as gym facilities for students, and there are no plans to replace it.
The current
Constitution of the State of
New Jersey was written and adopted in a convention held at the College Avenue Gym in
1947.
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