ROBINSON GYMNASIUM
Robinson Gymnasium was built to look like the Springfield, Mass., YMCA where
Naismith had invented basketball. The $100,000 structure was a palace by
turn-of-the-century standards. There were 1,500 lockers for men and women
in the basement, a swimming pool, a training area for the football team, and
most importantly, a regulation-sized basketball floor and 3,000 seats for
spectators. No finer facility existed west of the Mississippi River.
Source: Phog. p. 25