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Who ran indoors on the field house track in the mid 1960's? Do you remember what kind of surface you ran on there? I have had a picture in my mind of running in one high school meet at UConn behind/under bleachers on something like cinders. Could they have put down a cinder track indoors? Maybe I am thinking of someplace else. I just found on-line that Maine's old field house had a cinder running track. How about UConn's?
 
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Who ran indoors on the field house track in the mid 1960's? Do you remember what kind of surface you ran on there? I have had a picture in my mind of running in one high school meet at UConn behind/under bleachers on something like cinders. Could they have put down a cinder track indoors? Maybe I am thinking of someplace else. I just found on-line that Maine's old field house had a cinder running track. How about UConn's?
Didn't run track, but the field house in 1968 had a green rubber-ish floor. Early synthetic model. Basketballs sounded funny on it. Not sure when it was installed.
 
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Didn't run track, but the field house in 1968 had a green rubber-ish floor. Early synthetic model. Basketballs sounded funny on it. Not sure when it was installed.
I was a freshman in 1966 and the green rubber floor was already installed. The basketball court was also rubber whenever the removable wooden court was not installed on top of the rubber.
 

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I was there years later. When nasty pus-like ooze used to seep through.
 

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I was there years later. When nasty pus-like ooze used to seep through.
I'm pretty sure it was the same floor in the late 80s or early 90s when I was there... hehehe...
 
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Thanks for the responses. Nobody has gone quite all the way back to my vintage yet - close but not quite there. Other places we ran indoors on wood floors, for instance the Hartford armory. The high school event I am thinking of was probably in the winter of 1963. All I can remember is it was not a hard surface and I think it smelled a bit oily or rubbery, so some of what I am reading here could fit with my vague memory. Considering the distance of time I suppose I often will be disappointed as I test the limits of my memory.
 
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I was a freshman in 1966 and the green rubber floor was already installed. The basketball court was also rubber whenever the removable wooden court was not installed on top of the rubber.
I was a freshman in 1967 and the Field House still had a dirt floor. I think the rubber floor came 1-2 years later.
 
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Who ran indoors on the field house track in the mid 1960's? Do you remember what kind of surface you ran on there? I have had a picture in my mind of running in one high school meet at UConn behind/under bleachers on something like cinders. Could they have put down a cinder track indoors? Maybe I am thinking of someplace else. I just found on-line that Maine's old field house had a cinder running track. How about UConn's?
It was a 220 red clay track.
 

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I'd project an L in the AAC for UConn sometime between pigs flying and hell freezing over. I mean, even Louisville was in the conference for a year, and UConn beat them by 17, 20, and 20 points.
 
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