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Memorial Field House
Memorial Field house is a multipurpose facility connected to the Ferris Athletic Center. The facility contains an indoor 1/10 mile track, indoor tennis courts and other practice facilities for athletics.
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new fieldhouse took place on October 25, 1947. At the time, construction costs were estimated to be about $465,000. A new fieldhouse was needed due to limited space and availability for teams in the primary campus athletic facility, which was located in Alumni Hall.
Within the new facility, there was to be room for the following: an indoor 1/10th-mile dirt track, removable wooden flooring for basketball and seating capacity for up to 3,000 persons. The fieldhouse could be used for a variety of athletic events, especially focused on indoor training in bad weather for football and baseball. Additional uses would be for physical education classes and intramural sports.
Sources
Trinity College Athletics: Memorial Field House.
Trinity Tripod, 11/24/1948.
Trinity College Alumni News (December 1947), p. 6.