Good read if you are interested in Husker Power and Strength and Conditioning
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Really nice article. The difference between this football operation and the last few is staggering.
First I heard of the "mushroom track". Where was it? Was it called the mushroom track because of its shape, that mushrooms grew beside it, or did people run on it after eating Psilocybin?
It was underneath Memorial Stadium in the 60’s. I was a kid. It was elevated too.
We had a handmade racecar event there in 1967?
Gravity. I still have the car my dad and I made. It lost, but what memories.
I assume the mushroom reference comes from fungus growing in dark, moist , unventilatated enviornments.
Memorial Stadium has history far beyond football.
Only, “drug”, I would entertain at this advanced age.What's all this talk about mushroom heads?
The mushroom gardens, as it was called, was under the east stadium. The track team actually ran indoor meets in there until the Devaney Center opened in 1976. The runners became experts at nudging opposing runners into the support posts, which were right next to the track. For many years the NU indoor pole vault record was 14'3 (held by Boyd Epley, by the way) because if you went any higher you'd smack into the bottom of the bleachers. In the spring, the humidity caused by melting snow on the bleachers overhead caused water to drip all over the dirt track, causing small rivers and not-so-small holes.
Coach Sevigne was a chain smoker, so you had to run through a blue cloud everyday at practice. Great, great memories
Very interesting, thanks! Was it all enclosed, or was the east side open to the east covered by a chain link fence? I prided myself in knowing all the quirky hiding places on campus, but never encountered mushroom gardens. I didn't get to campus until 1978, so they must have shut off access to it by then since indoor track was at Devaney.
Fully enclosed. It was still open to the student body well into the 80s
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