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Honoring a Blue Devil legacy In the same week that Duke marked the 75th birthday of its hallowed basketball arena Cameron Indoor Stadium, the university also baptized its newest athletics facility. On Saturday morning Jan. 10, hundreds of Blue Devil student-athletes, administrators, staff members and supporters poured into Koskinen Stadium for the dedication of the Ana and Chris Kennedy Tower, a multi-purpose structure that is positioned between Koskinen and the new Williams Track and Field Stadium. As such it will service events at both venues, covering the sports of men’s and women’s soccer, lacrosse and track & field. It is named for Chris Kennedy, Duke’s senior deputy director of athletics who has been a member of the athletics department since 1977, and his late wife Ana, who passed away two years ago. Duke vice president and director of athletics Kevin White hosted the dedication, which also featured remarks from Duke president Richard Brodhead, men’s soccer coach John Kerr on behalf of the Blue Devil coaching community, and Kennedy. “I don’t know of a facility quite like this in the country,” White said afterward. “It is 11,000 square feet, four floors, really well done, incredibly well-appointed, and it has the functionality of serving six sports. It serves a heck of a lot of student-athletes. About 25 percent of our program will be represented by this building.” The first official Duke event served by the Kennedy Tower comes in February with the opening of the lacrosse season. The new structure provides major long term benefits in terms of game operations, broadcasting and the ability to host major events such as ACC and NCAA tournaments. Tower namesakes Ana and Chris Kennedy met at Duke in the 1970s when both were PhD students at the university, and their involvement with Duke became their life’s work. Chris began as the academic advisor for athletics, then later came to coordinate academic support, compliance and several other administrative areas. He served as Duke’s interim director of athletics in 2008 when the school was searching for a new AD (which turned out to be White), and he remains an adjunct assistant professor. Chris and Ana’s two children are both Duke graduates. He described himself as both humbled and proud to see he and Ana recognized at the place he has worked for almost four decades, for both personal and professional reasons. “Duke appeals to a lot of the things I believe in, that is, the ability to do high-level academics and high-level athletics and make that a seamless whole,” he explained. “And to excel at the highest level in both those things and to do it organically as part of the life of the place. Student-athletes choose to come to a place like Duke because they are interested in the idea that they are all one enterprise, that you can be excellent in all phases of your life — that they are not contradictory, they’re complementary.” “He’s kind of the backbone of all of us,” veteran women’s lacrosse coach Kerstin Kimel said of Kennedy’s influence. “If we need anything — direction, advice, guidance — he is there for us. In today’s age, to have an administrator who is so selflessly focused on helping our coaches, helping our programs, helping our kids, is really amazing, For someone who has been here a long time and has been under Chris’ direction for a long time, it’s hard to articulate how much appreciation I have in my heart. There is a lot of Chris Kennedy guidance that’s helped me navigate my way through my career here at Duke.”

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1K BY THE NUMBERS Breaking down Coach Kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1,000 victories

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NCAA Tournament wins, more than any other coach

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1,035 Games as a Ranked Team

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The Spirit of Cameron Portraits of Duke’s most hallowed hall

By Barry Jacobs

uildings are not living things, or so we are told. They are constructs: walls and floors, stone and wood and concrete and steel. Buildings are inanimate creations, forms to fit function. To believe otherwise is illogical, misguidedly sentimental, and contrary to fact. But then there are places such as Cameron Indoor Stadium, where what we think we know yields to what we feel. That original seating plan and the multi-paned windows, those same walls and floors otherwise defined by square footage and seating capacity, attain a distinctive character over time, a patina like weathered copper, an identity enriched by history and the intensity of collective experience. In that sense a building can come alive, causing its closest acquaintances to speak of it with affection and a little awe. How often have we heard Mike Krzyzewski, who has perhaps spent more time in Cameron than anyone, speak of the place’s specialness, of its happy haunting by basketball gods? Nor is Krzyzewski alone in noting the presence of some ineffable presence within the neo-Gothic bandbox at the far edge of West Campus. “Even Coach says he can feel the history when you walk through at night,” says Bob Weiseman, Duke’s Director of Athletic Facilities, Game Operations and Championships. “To me, there’s no better way to experience Cameron than with a couple of lights on at night. Just walking in there, there’s something going on. I don’t know what it is — you can feel it, the spirit in there. It’s pretty cool.” Weiseman, a Pennsylvanian by birth, attended and worked at other schools prior to coming to Duke in 2008 as an equipment manager for several Olympic sports. In other words, despite his rhapsodic fondness for the place, an affinity for Cameron is not in Weiseman’s blood. Not like the unidentified man he describes coming into the building one day, walking onto the court, dropping to his knees, and proceeding to weep. “He was just happy to be there,” Weiseman says. Numerous individuals, just happy to be there, traipse daily through Cameron, where the lights are on from early morning until the conclusion of the day’s last event. Tourists visiting the Triangle area come by to see the famous arena that houses men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, select social events and an appended Duke sports Hall of Fame. Pete Moller, a member of the 1957-58 Duke freshman basketball team coached by Whit Cobb, leads tours of Cameron on Saturdays. Traffic is sporadic, but often substantial. On a recent sunny afternoon the retired U.S. Steel executive met an impromptu contingent of visitors from Tennessee and Florida near the ticket windows in the south lobby, an

area planned for renovation and expansion starting this spring. The work is scheduled for completion prior to the start of the 2016-17 basketball season, longer than it took to construct the entire 262-foot by 175-foot arena for $400,000 in 1940. “When it was built, Duke was criticized for spending so much money on a basketball facility,” Moller tells the tourists, pointing out the arena was the largest south of Philadelphia’s Palestra when it opened. The latest investment in improving Cameron reflects not only a conscious embrace of its unique ambience, but a measured — and welcome — response to the constant pressures of the arms race in big-time college sports. “In my 28 years, the last seven in the role of facilities,” says Mike Cragg, Duke’s Deputy Director of Athletics/Operations, “there’s never been a second spent on ‘What if we did a new building?’ or ‘How would a new building work?’ It’s always been about how can we best preserve, reinvent, make great, the gem we have in Cameron?” John Pearce, retired as the Duke University architect and now an “advising architect” to the school, got that message loud and clear when introducing himself upon arrival in 1992. “I went in to see (Tom) Butters, the athletic director, and as I was sitting down he said to me, ‘Well, if you’re in here to talk about Duke getting a new basketball coliseum, you can get up right now and leave.’” The upcoming Cameron enhancements will preserve the façade facing Wallace Wade Stadium when an enlarged lobby, amenities for boosters and the general public, and more restrooms are added. Pearce says a similar aesthetic governed his efforts when a tower with fire-exit stairway, air-conditioning conduits and restrooms was added to the structure’s east side in 2001. The same stone used around West Campus and mined on Duke property just outside nearby Hillsborough covers much of that addition. Utilities are buried unobtrusively beneath the walkway adjoining Card Gym, Cameron’s predecessor as the Blue Devils’ basketball home and still Duke’s wrestling venue. Working with an old building has its disadvantages, of course. Standards have changed, leaving Cameron with grandfathered limitations, short of modern requirements for everything from open spaces around the court to fire suppression systems to bathroom capacity. Weiseman, the operations manager, notes it’s only recently that Cameron got backup emergency lighting. He anticipates upgrades in a variety of areas during the upcoming lobby-oriented renovation, executed with energy efficiency and sustainability in mind. The matching lobbies at either end of Cameron are actually an unusu-

al source of fascination, at least architecturally. Some office occupants refer to the Wallace Wade side when directing visitors to the building’s “front.” Others assume the north end, where students enter, is the front because it faces the main campus. “It’s actually pretty neat the way it was done,” Pearce says of the ambiguous symmetry. That particular feature isn’t mentioned as Moller escorts visitors around Cameron. Rather, the proud alum leads them up blue-carpeted stairs to the attached Duke Basketball Museum and Sports Hall of Fame, sharing tidbits in equal measure about Blue Devil history and athletes’ academic and competitive accomplishments. “Part of our culture is bringing in young men and women who can compete academically as well as athletically,” Moller says.

All well and good, but other than a search for restrooms what’s of most interest to guests is a chance to venture onto the basketball court. “If you want to sit in Coach K’s seat, it’s third from the left,” Moller points out. And if you simply want to drink in surroundings familiar from countless television broadcasts — minus the 9,314 spectators (more or less) crowding close in what Pearce calls “an inflated high school gym”; the chants and music, stomps, waving arms, painted faces, and voices raised in deafening roar; the passes, dribbles, baskets, collisions, and moments of triumph and intense drama — that’s as easy as exercising your imagination. “It’s 75 years,” Moller tells his modest flock of the Blue Devils’ occupancy of Cameron, “and we love every minute of it.”

When Cameron Became Cameron

The 1986 Duke-Notre Dame was hardly a blowout, but NBC’s coverage was a boon to Cameron’s profile

Four weeks in 1986 brought Duke’s home court into the national consciousness By Al Featherston DUKE ARCHIVES/ DURHAM HERALD-SUN

For the last quarter century, Cameron Indoor Stadium has been renowned as college basketball’s crown jewel, voted the world’s fourth greatest sporting venue of the 20th Century by Sports Illustrated (and the top basketball facility). It’s hard to remember now, but there was a time when Cameron, which celebrated its 75th birthday this month, wasn’t so celebrated. In the early 1970s, when Duke basketball was struggling and Cameron was getting a bit rundown, CBS basketball analyst Billy Packer told a Durham civic group that the aging arena was a major negative for the Duke program and should be replaced by a newer facility. Instead, athletics director Tom Butters elected to refurbish Cameron. Even after that makeover, Cameron remained a regional gem — closer in the minds of most observers to nearby Reynolds Coliseum and Carmichael Auditorium than to nationally renowned facilities such as the Palestra in Philadelphia, Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas, and UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion. That would change over four weekends late in the 1986 season, when Cameron took center stage in the college basketball world with a quartet of remarkable games — games that were hammered into the national consciousness with four national television telecasts on two different networks. Before that month-long run, Cameron was just another nice college basketball arena. Afterwards, it was the most admired college facility in the nation — a perception that only grew more widespread over the following years. Just a word about national television in 1985-86. The all-sports network ESPN was still in its first decade and it was beginning to take off. Technically, every ESPN telecast was national, although a large percentage of the nation’s TV viewers were still not hooked up to the cable network. In addition, ESPN acted in partnership with the regional Raycom/Jefferson Pilot Network for ACC games, sharing cameras (and sometimes announcers). Most ESPN telecasts were blacked out in the ACC viewing area to protect the Raycom/Jefferson

Pilot market. Thus, the only real national games in that era were the weekend games broadcast on CBS (usually Saturdays) and NBC (usually Sunday). Duke appeared on five ESPN games in January, including the first game ever played in the Dean Dome on Jan. 18. Marty Brenneman and Billy Cunningham were on hand in tuxedos for the inaugural telecast from the gaudy new arena. Their commentary was unavailable to most viewers along the Eastern seaboard, who had to watch the game on the Raycom/Jefferson Pilot affiliates. Three nights later, Duke faced Georgia Tech in Atlanta in a game telecast exclusively by ESPN. Those two games were the only losses for the 1985-86 Blue Devils heading into February. Duke improved its record to 21-2 after beating Virginia in Charlottesville on Feb. 6. That set the stage for the rematch with Georgia Tech. The Sunday afternoon game was telecast by NBC with Dick Enberg and Al McGuire on hand to tout what the network played up as “The Battle for No. 2.” The fact is that Georgia Tech was No. 2 in the AP poll and Duke No. 4, but the two teams were tied for No. 2 in the coaches’ poll. This wasn’t NBC’s first visit to Cameron. The Peacock Network provided the first official national telecast from the old arena on Jan. 28, 1979, when Duke edged Marquette 69-64. It was an odd telecast — Enberg, McGuire and Packer (who was part of the NBC crew at the time) sat behind the scorer’s table, not in the crow’s nest. And because network

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officials were wary of the rowdy Cameron Crazies, the game was telecast on a brief tape delay (to provide time to censor any obscenities from the crowd). The network took a different approach in 1986. Instead of fearing the crowd, NBC decided to celebrate the Crazies. The telecast opened with a feature on Duke students lining up for weeks in what would eventually become known as Krzyzewskiville and focused on the impressive atmosphere in the small, intimate arena where the students surrounded the court. That crowd played a major role as Johnny Dawkins, Mark Alarie and company battled Mark Price, John Salley and the rest of Bobby Cremins’ preseason No. 1 team. The game was tight at the half with Duke up one point, but Alarie sparked a 16-6 Blue Devil run to open the second half. The lead gradually climbed as Duke coasted to the 75-59 victory. That was enough to give Duke the No. 2 ranking in both polls, but in itself was not enough to cement Cameron in the national consciousness. Instead, it was the merely first act of the month-long drama. Act 2 came exactly one week later, when No. 14 Notre Dane came to Cameron to take on the No. 2 Devils. NBC was again on hand for the Sunday afternoon telecast. Once again, Enberg and McGuire focused on the passion of the students and the remarkable atmosphere in the arena. Duke needed all the help it could get. The night before, the Blue Devils visited N.C. State and faced Chris Washburn, Nate McMillan and company in rowdy Reynolds Coliseum. In truth, the atmosphere in Reynolds wasn’t all that different than in Cameron. The difference was that there were no TV cameras there to record it. Duke’s dramatic 72-70 victory on Saturday night was not telecast anywhere, even regionally. But the whole nation got to see Duke and Notre Dame battle to the wire the next day in Cameron. NBC continued its love affair with Irish coach Digger Phelps but it was young Notre Dame guard David Rivers who gave Duke fits. He outscored Duke All-American Johnny Dawkins 20-18, but with the game on the line, Dawkins blocked Rivers’ jumper at the buzzer to preserve Duke’s 75-74 victory. That was two marquee performances in a row for the Blue Devils and in both cases, Cameron and the Cameron crowd were celebrated by NBC. A week later, it was CBS on hand to telecast a late afternoon Saturday matchup with No. 10 Oklahoma. Billy Packer and Brent Musberger were the Cameron cheerleaders this time. Like NBC two weeks earlier, CBS opened the show with a feature on the Cameron Crazies and the atmosphere they created in Cameron. The atmosphere was helped by a pregame ceremony retiring Johnny Dawkins No. 24 jersey. It was just the third jersey ever retired at Duke and the ceremony was scheduled for the next-to-last home game on the advice of Mike Gminski, who had related the pressure of a jersey retirement ceremony on Senior Night — usually against UNC. The CBS audience got to see a tough, hard-fought game. Duke led most of the way, but never could break it open against Billy Tubbs’ Sooners. Senior David Henderson gave the Devils a 28-point performance to secure the 93-84 victory. With No. 1 North Carolina losing earlier in the week at home to Maryland, Duke was poised to climb into the No. 1 spot in the polls for the first time under Krzyzewski. When No. 3 North Carolina came to Cameron for the 1986 regular season finale, Enberg and McGuire were back on hand to celebrate No. 1 Duke and the increasingly familiar atmosphere in Cameron. The Crazies had a great day, cheering the home team and taunting their bitter rivals. They directed one clever cheer at UNC guard Steve Hale, who suffered a collapsed lung in the Maryland loss. Hale was recovering nicely (he would play in the next week’s ACC Tournament), but he was in street clothes on the UNC bench for the Duke visit, prompting the Crazies to chant, “In-Hale … Ex-Hale.” The game itself had vital importance — the ACC regular season title was on the line as well as a potential No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

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Johnny Dawkins had his jersey retired before the Duke-Oklahoma game in February of 1986 It was a close game, but Duke led most of the way with Henderson again playing well. The senior wing scored 27 points. Dawkins added 21 in the Devils’ 82-74 win. Of course, that Duke team went on to win the ACC title in Greensboro, then to reach the NCAA championship game before losing a heartbreaker to Louisville. It was the team that put the national spotlight on Krzyzewski for the first time and made him a (hard to pronounce) national name. But one of the team’s greatest legacies was cementing Cameron’s place as a nationally renowned college basketball venue. Those four national telecasts against the No. 2, No. 14, No. 14 and No. 3 teams in the country gave the nation a chance to see those qualities the made Cameron special. It also became more and more unique in the years immediately following 1986 as more and more of the old arenas were phased out. Carmichael was lost in 1986. Reynolds hung on until near the end of the century, but N.C. State’s collapse after 1990 robbed the arena of any important games. In the new Big East, the wonderful on-campus arenas were replaced as the league required its teams to play in big, sterile pro facilities. Many colleges went the same route — most significantly, UNC, which replaced the wonderfully intimate Carmichael Auditorium with the mausoleum known as the Smith Center. Cameron underwent another renovation after the 1986 season. The reconstruction didn’t go quite as far as Enberg suggested on one 1986 telecast, when he talked about the project and suggested the stained glass

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windows would be added. Still, the brass railings and the wooden paneling gave the facility a cathedral-like look and feel. Cameron remains not only an example of the great atmosphere possible in college basketball, but as a monument to the places where the game was born and grew to greatness. It’s to college basketball what

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Opening Night at the Indoor Stadium By Lewis Bowling

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One day in 1935, Wallace Wade and Eddie Cameron got together after practice. Wade was one of the best known football coaches in the country at this time, having led the University of Alabama to three national titles before coming to Duke as head coach and athletic director. Cameron was the Duke basketball coach and an assistant football coach for the Blue Devils. These two legends are the men most responsible for leading Duke athletics to national prominence. What they discussed that day back in 1935 in their offices in Card Gym led to what is now the most famous building on the entire Duke University campus. Wade, as always, was in control. After all, he was Cameron’s boss, both as head football coach and as athletics director. Another reason that Wade led any discussion he was involved in was that he just commanded respect. Hugo Germino, a sportswriter who knew Wade, once said, “When Coach Wade talked, everybody — I don’t care who was there — everybody just shut up and listened.” But Wade had all the respect in the world for Cameron, and on this day they both exchanged ideas about the need for a new basketball facility. Card Gym was a nice place to play basketball, but they both saw the need for a larger arena. Football was the top sport on the Duke campus in the 1930s, no question, as it was on most college campuses, but basketball was growing in popularity. Wade or Cameron pulled out a matchbook cover and they scribbled a rough drawing of what they had in mind for a new basketball arena. The result of this casual chat between Wade and Cameron is now considered by many to be the most famous college basketball arena in the country, Cameron Indoor Stadium. On January 6, 2015, this famous facility turned 75 years old.

The architectural plans for the new basketball arena were drawn up by the Philadelphia firm of Horace Trumbauer. James B. Duke, the tobacco man who had donated millions to Duke University, had noticed Trumbauer’s work on the mansions of the wealthy in big cities up north. The chief designer of Trumbauer’s firm was Julian Abele, the first black man to ever graduate from the prestigious Ecole des Beaux Arts School in Paris. Abele was the man who designed Cameron Indoor Stadium and much of the Duke West Campus. On October 16, 1937, Trumbauer wrote a short letter to Dr. William Few, Duke’s president: I am sending you under separate cover rough studies of the proposed indoor stadium designed in accordance with the recommendations I made to you while in Durham this week. The purpose of this indoor stadium would be to provide facilities for: • Basketball with sittings for 4,000 spectators. • Indoor tennis which requires more playing space but could be accommodated with sittings for 2,500 spectators. • Other games of indoor sports in which it is desirable to have seats for spectators. • Large gatherings such as your commencement exercises with sittings for 5,000 people. In another letter two days later, October 18 of 1937, Trumbauer wrote Dr. Few: With regard to provision for 8,000 sittings outside of a basket ball court, I approximate the cost of the building would be increased to $250,000. For your information Yale has in its new gymnasium a basket

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ball court with sittings for 1,600. I am quoting this fact as I think the sit- eton 36-27. Tom Connelly missed the first shot of the game for Duke. He tings for 8,000 people is rather liberal. The Palestra at the University of recalled years later, “Chuck Holley, our center, tapped the ball to Glenn Pennsylvania, which is a building used for similar purposes, seats 9,000 Price to open the game. Price flipped it to me. I took one dribble, laid the and cost $670,000. ball up and missed the shot. I was tight from nervousness. We had been As you can see from these letters, Few and the Duke administration, in the new gym only once before. We went there the night before the along with Wade and Cameron, had visions of a huge facility, with “sit- game for a workout. Those 8,000 people scared me.” tings” for 8,000 or so spectators. Trumbauer thought that was too “liberConnelly, who later became a jeweler in downtown Durham, did al,” or more than was reasonable. score four points in the game. Price scored the first points in the new A memorandum on the proposed Indoor Stadium was released on arena. September 24, 1938. Among other items were these: “Under the permaHolley was an exception on the 1940 Duke team, which was nicknent seats and around the outside of the building would be fitted up for named the “Little Boy Blues,” because only one starting player stood offices for the director of athletics and business manager of athletics, over 6 feet. Holley was 6-3. This team won 19 games with seven losses dressing rooms for basketball, two large club rooms for the athletic club, in 1940. Bill Mock was named All-America, Duke’s second player to dressing rooms for the visiting teams, 10 or 12 sleeping rooms for visit- win such honors, after Bill Werber in 1930. Amazingly, 13 of the 17 ing teams. In addition to this on the first floor will be a hardwood floor players on the 1940 team were from Pennsylvania, which is where Camof which size, when temporary seats are moved, to have three full sized eron was from. basketball courts. Directly under the permanent seats will be a concourse A report on the Indoor Stadium shortly after this first game noted extended entirely around the building 12 feet wide for the entrance and that “in the building were press boxes at the north end of the floor that exits for the persons seated in the balcony or permanent seats. This build- could be combined into a portable stage, two rooms with an earth floor ing will be located 30 or 40 feet from the present Gym with an under- which will be used by physical education classes and a coat checking ground passage from the dressing rooms of the present Gym to the new room for the convenience of the public. Despite its large volume, the building. The roof of the new building will be of steel structure with two building can be readily and comfortably heated by a combination of rarows of glass windows extending the full length of the building.” diators and unit heating, with thermostat controls. Good ventilation in So by late 1938 plans were well underway for the construction of all weather has been assured. The electrical features of the new gym Duke Indoor Stadium, sometimes called the Duke University Gymnasi- include superb lighting by the use of 42 1,000-watt lights. A special light um, and eventually Cameron Indoor Stadium. Where the money would fixture is provided at the center of the building to illuminate the boxing come from — construction would ring. Base for the maple playing cost $400,000 — had not been defloor are five-inch concrete slabs. “It has to be kept in mind that while many fine cided. But Wallace Wade’s football The theatre-type seats are designed sports of great popularity are encouraged and well team of 1938 would take care of for comfort and are 19 inches wide. provided for here, only football pays its way. It must that. The famed Iron Dukes went There are trophy-displaying cases and does, as is well known, provide the means for undefeated, untied, and most amazin the south lobby.” ing of all, unscored upon. Not one Duke Indoor Stadium received all other sports. With greater accommodation for team scored a single point against a new name in 1972 when it bebasketball games, that sport will soon be able, the mighty defense of the Blue Devcame Cameron Indoor Stadium in we hope, to get along without aid.” ils. After the regular season, Duke honor of Eddie Cameron. In 1977 was invited to play the University of the original playing floor was reSouthern California in the 1939 Rose Bowl. Wade agreed that the money placed, new bleacher seats added, and the lobbies were remodeled. A earned from the Rose Bowl would be used to start the construction of the plan to expand Cameron Indoor Stadium by 6,000 seats was canceled new basketball arena. Excavation of land and the building of the stadium in 1986 and 1987. Tom Butters, former athletics director at Duke, wrote began in 1939. It should also be noted that proceeds from Duke’s win the following in 1987: “In exchange for 6,000 additional seats, we would over Alabama in the 1945 Sugar Bowl paid off the debt, so Duke football sacrifice the intimacy of Cameron Indoor Stadium and perhaps alter forpretty much paid for what is now Cameron Indoor Stadium. ever its unique character. Additionally, the building has as much national Duke Indoor Stadium officially opened January 6, 1940. It was huge; acclaim as any arena associated with a university. Wrigley Field is not in fact, it was the largest basketball arena south of the Palestra in Phil- the Astrodome, but then, does it need be?” adelphia. A crowd of 8,000 was on hand, at the time the largest in the Mike Krzyzewski agreed with that decision writing to Duke fans: “I history of southern basketball. President Few and Dean William Wanna- believe it is important for Duke fans to know that I am very happy with maker presented the stadium to the university. Few said, “In recent years the decision to renovate rather than to expand Cameron Indoor Stadium. there has been a growing interest in athletic games on the part of our It would have been easy for us to get caught up in the recent trend to public. While in athletic finances we are still behind some universities, build ever bigger on-campus basketball facilities. For many schools, that largely due to our smaller charges for admission to intercollegiate games, is the right thing to do. For Duke, I think it would have been a mistake. I we are constantly bettering our whole athletic situation. This beautiful think it is important for us to understand and appreciate what we have in Indoor Stadium is testament to that.” Cameron Indoor Stadium: the best home basketball arena in America. I Wannamaker, knowing that football was king on the Duke campus at have played and coached in many facilities but for atmosphere, tradition, the time, said, “It has to be kept in mind that while many fine sports of and home-court excitement, none can match Cameron. Our players, our great popularity are encouraged and well provided for here, only football students, and our fans love it. It is one of the most famous basketball arepays its way. It must and does, as is well known, provide the means for nas in the country and one of the most feared by opposing teams. Why, all other sports. With greater accommodation for basketball games, that then, should we change it? The answer, of course, is that we shouldn’t sport will soon be able, we hope, to get along without aid.” change it.” Add Penfield, long-time radio voice of the Blue Devils, was there the Cameron Indoor Stadium is truly a magical place to watch college night of the dedication. He recalled, “The seats were full. There were a basketball. The Philadelphia Symphony has played there, Leontyne number of dignitaries on hand, including Governor Clyde Huey, who Price, Frank Sinatra, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, wore a swallow-tail coat with a flower in his lapel. Not long after 8:00, and others have sung there, but surely there is no better place in the counthe electricity failed, and every light in the building went out for 20 min- try to enjoy college basketball. As Coach K once said, “Cameron has a utes. The only source of light in the place was lit cigarettes in the crowd.” soul. It has a spirit. Most buildings don’t have life to them. Cameron The lights came back on and Duke, coached by Cameron, beat Princ- Indoor Stadium breathes life.”

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Vic Bubas farewell and Janis Joplin concert created some legendary March madness — and memories By Jim Sumner Start the day with a late-winter snowstorm. End with a performance by a rock legend. In between, we have the main event, a stunningly successful farewell by a different kind of legend. That’s a capsule summary of March 1, 1969. I was a freshman then, and having grown up in the South I was quite impressed by the seven inches of snow that blanketed the ground that Saturday. And we certainly didn’t have anything like Janis Joplin in our neck of the woods. Younger readers might wonder why someone of Joplin’s stature would play in what was then Duke Indoor Stadium. But before the advent of outdoor sheds and 20,000 seat arenas, the future Cameron Indoor Stadium was one of the bigger concert venues around. In just my four years at Duke — 1968-1972 — I saw such notables as Simon and Garfunkel, the Allman Brothers Band, the Moody Blues and Traffic. Bruce Springsteen came just later.

I probably spent as much time listening to music there as I spent watching hoops. So, it was no surprise to see Joplin and her Kozmic Blues Band show up that night. I also took P.E. classes, competed in intramurals and waited in endless lines for class changes at the Indoor Stadium. But basketball was, is and always will be the biggest show in town and that certainly was the case when Vic Bubas said goodbye. Bubas began his 10th and final season as Duke’s head coach with what appeared to be a loaded team. Mike Lewis had graduated but seniors Steve Vandenberg and Dave Golden seemed ready to take the next step to star-level, while sophomores Randy Denton and Dick DeVenzio anchored Bubas’ last great recruiting class. Duke began the season ranked 17th in the AP poll and jumped to ninth after starting 3-0. Then the wheels came off. The seniors and the sophomores didn’t mesh, Vandenberg and Golden slumped and a porous defense couldn’t

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stop anyone. Duke became a .500 team and then a lame-duck team. In mid-February Bubas told his squad that he was stepping down after the season to become an administrator. Duke responded with a 122-93 thumping of Wake Forest but then lost three of its next four. The news had become public by March 1, when a 12-12 team hosted second-ranked North Carolina. The Tar Heels were led by junior Charlie Scott and a trio of senior starters in Rusty Clark, Bill Bunting and Dick Grubar. Carolina was on its way to its third consecutive Final Four appearance and had mauled Duke earlier that season in Chapel Hill, 94-70. In addition to being Bubas’ last home game, it also was Senior Day for Vandenberg, Golden, Fred Lind, C.B. Claiborne and Warren Chapman. Lind was the one senior who did elevate his game. Best remembered for starring off the bench in Duke’s triple-overtime win over North Carolina in 1968, Lind averaged 11 points and eight rebounds per game as a senior. Now an attorney in Greensboro, Lind remembers a pretty low-key approach to the game. “There was no team meeting or anything. Dave Golden and I were in the same fraternity, so we talked about it. But we knew it was the end of an era and we had to be mentally prepared.” Bubas, who now lives in Richmond, says his team was focused on North Carolina. “They knew I was stepping down. Everybody had a chance to live with that. There was no special calling for that game other than the fact that we were playing a big rival, a really good one.” Senior Dave Golden pressures North Carolina started UNC star Charlie Scott in 1969 6-11 Clark and 6-9 BunDuke home finale ting, with 6-10 Lee Dedmon playing major minutes off the bench. Bubas thought he needed more size so he went with what he calls “more of a hunch than anything else, something you feel like might work.” The hunch was Vandenberg, who had lost his starting job to sophomore Rick Katherman and came into the game averaging a paltry five points per game. It was Vandenberg’s first start since December. Few hunches have ever paid off better. Vandenberg, Lind and DeVenzio played exceptionally well early, as Duke dominated the first half. The game was tied at 11 and 13 before a 15-4 Duke run created some separation. It was 46-33 at intermission. There were some concerns. Coaches treated personal fouls differently in those days. DeVenzio, who had shredded Carolina’s defense, ended the half with four fouls, while Denton was hobbled by three fouls. Bubas kept DeVenzio on the bench to start the second half and North Carolina responded by scoring the first 11 points.

Bubas called a timeout and got DeVenzio back in. Duke rebuilt its lead from 46-44 to 58-50. But Carolina refused to go away, which Lind says was no surprise. “They were very talented. They could overwhelm you with size and Scott was the kind of player you couldn’t stop, you just tried to contain.” Denton didn’t give Duke much. He picked up his fourth foul early in the second half, sat out 12 minutes, came back in and immediately fouled out, with just over three minutes left and six points to his credit. Denton joined Golden on the bench. Golden’s day ended with a leg injury with six minutes left. Bubas had young options available in sophomores Katherman and Brad Evans. But he played more hunches, replacing Denton with injury-plagued fifth-year senior Warren Chapman and Golden with former walk-on Claiborne, Duke’s first African-American basketball player. A 9-0 Carolina run gave the Tar Heels a 59-58 lead. DeVenzio put Duke back on top. Scott gave Carolina its final lead, at 61-60. Lind then scored four points in a 7-0 Duke surge. Scott fouled out Denton and completed a three-point play to make it 77-73. Two Bunting foul shots made it 77-75. Then those hunches started paying off. Claiborne knocked down two foul shots, with 2:20 left. It was 80-77 when Jim Delaney missed a jumper for Carolina. The Tar Heels rebounded but Vandenberg intercepted a pass. He scored at the other end on a Clark goal-tend, fouled out Bunting and finished the three-point play, making it 83-77 with 1:19 left. Scott made two foul shots for the visitors. But Chapman salted it away with an inside bucket, two of only 40 points he would score all season. DUKE ARCHIVES/DURHAM HERALD-SUN It ended 87-81. Vandenberg played all 40 minutes and finished with 33 points and 12 rebounds, making 10-of-14 from the field and all 13 of his foul shots. Lind added 18 points and 11 rebounds. DeVenzio never did foul out and ended with 13 points. Scott led North Carolina with 22 points. The win gave Bubas a home record of 87-13 and assured him of never having a losing season at Duke. It also gave him a 14-12 mark against North Carolina. He ended 14-13 when Duke lost to the Tar Heels in the ACC Tournament title game the following week. That loss ended Duke’s season at 15-13. Lind remembers a very emotional postgame, with “lots of tears in the eyes.” Bubas, never an outwardly emotional coach, says beating an archrival was the biggest accomplishment of the day. But he adds, “It was a good way to finish it out. You always have the thought that you’d like to go out on top. I guess we did.”

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Everything Came Up Roses Dennard and Banks knew how to say thanks — with a style all their own By Johnny Moore

It was February 28, 1981 and walking up to Cameron Indoor Stadium in the afternoon sun you could see a number of young people dressed in white T-shirts that featured sketches of two faces along with the words “Dennard and Banks – So Long and Thanks.” It was Senior Day at Duke for two of the greatest characters to ever don Blue Devil uniforms. For Gene Banks and Kenny Dennard the first three years of their career had been an almost Cinderella-like journey, playing for a national championship, being ranked No.1 in the nation for most of their sophomore and junior seasons, appearing on the covers of magazines and national television and much more. But things had changed in their final year. Their senior year had not been what these two had hoped for. The coach they had come to play for had walked away from the program, and in stepped a one-time captain in the U.S. Army, a guy who not only coached at the United States Military Academy but played there as well. He was coming from a job where discipline both on and off the court was a fact of life. Discipline was not usually the first word that popped up when describing Banks and Dennard. Banks was one of the most charismatic players in college basketball. He had missed several practices over the years traveling back to Philadelphia to take care of family and had never met someone who didn’t become his friend. “Tinkerbell” was his own man. Dennard, meanwhile, had appeared nude on the cover of a campus publication — with a basketball placed in the most appropriate location. He once left after the end of the season and drove down to Florida with

his head sticking out the sun roof for “his” spring break. Reverse and windmill dunks along with over the head passes were much more the basketball language of these two than any words used by members of the U.S. Army. But they did have one ingredient that the new Duke head coach from Army could relate to — they knew how to win. When they played the game it was at one speed — full. So, first-year coach Mike Krzyzewski knew he needed them and vowed he would make it through one year. “One year,” he would say on several occasions. The 34-year old had to make it just one season with them. That one season was on the verge of wrapping up on this day in Cameron Indoor Stadium, and it would belong to the two seniors. It was only fitting that the play that would place the game in overtime and the eventual win would involve two of the most unlikely players you could ever put together. Banks was the Mr. All-Everything from the big city of Brotherly Love — Philadelphia. Dennard hailed from King, North Carolina. Unless you are from the state of North Carolina, there is no way you know where King is located. He played his high school ball at South Stokes. But the two struck up a relationship as soon as they arrived on campus. The magic between Banks and Dennard developed in the summer prior to their freshman year. “We were both in Durham that summer,” explained Dennard. “Gene was in a pre-college, summer school program and I was working odd jobs around town. We played every night in the intramural building because they were tearing up the original floor in

Cameron Indoor Stadium that summer.” The IM Building was just a basic gymnasium with a rubber floor and metal girders sticking out of the pre-fabricated building. “Some of the greatest pickup games I ever played in were played in that old building,” Dennard continued. “Gene and I would light each other up, playing incredibly hard against each other, having a ball just playing basketball and gaining a great deal of respect for each other’s game. We battled as competitors and became blood brothers, dark blue brothers to this day.” Four years later it was Senior Day in Cameron Indoor Stadium. I’m not sure you could have gotten any more people in the building that day. Being the charismatic person that he was, Banks could say no to no one and basically half the city of Durham was told by Banks that there would be tickets left for them at the door for this game. Most of them found a way to get in the building. In those days, the seniors were introduced to a darkened gym and ran off the bench into a spotlight shining on center court. Fellow senior Jim Suddath was the first to be introduced, and it was during Suddath’s big moment that the following conversation took place.

As the assistant sports information director, it was my job to make sure the senior introductions went off without any problems. I was sitting on the bench right beside the team and where I could communicate with Dr. Art Chandler, the stadium public address announcer. As Suddath was announced I DUKE ARCHIVES looked around behind the bench in the bleachers to see where Gene Banks revels in the Banks had placed the box of moment of a glorious roses he brought with him to the Senior Day finish game and I had seen early in the day in his locker. No roses. I grabbed Banks by the shoulder and said, ‘Where are the roses?” “You really think I should do it?” he replied. “If you want to Tink, it’s your Senior Day,” I said. “They’re back in my locker.” I grabbed a manager and sent him back to the locker room while simultaneously deciding that Suddath needed more time in the spotlight. Dennard was next and spent what seemed like an eternity at center court before the manger scurried around the back of the players on the bench and set the white box with red roses behind Banks. I nodded at him, saw Krzyzewski give me a look with a furrowed forehead, and I just grinned.

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As Banks was introduced to a thunderous applause, he tossed roses to all four corners of the building and then went to midcourt where he grabbed his teammate Dennard and gave him a big hug. Dennard, grinning the whole time, reminded Banks that he was full of bull and returned the hug. Banks had passed out roses following his final high school game for West Philadelphia at The Palestra to show his thanks to the crowd for their support. He wanted to do the same in Cameron to the Duke faithful. It was no surprise that the two would then hook up on one of the most revered shots in Duke basketball history. “Two seconds to go, tie game at 56,” explained Dennard. “Sam Perkins at the line. We have only one timeout. No matter what happened with the free throws, whether Sam made them or missed them, Coach Krzyzewski told us we were to call timeout. He made both of them, and before I could call timeout, Dean Smith called timeout for Carolina, which gave us an extra timeout, which proved to be a tactical error. “We go into the huddle and Coach Krzyzewski says to just get the ball to halfcourt and call timeout,” he continued. “We would not have had that opportunity if Dean hadn’t called timeout to set up his defense. I threw it to Tommy Emma at midcourt and he quickly called timeout.” The huddle was really interesting and the two have laughed about it over the years. “K called the play for Chip Engelland because everyone would think I would be going to Gene, so we would use Gene as a decoy,” explained Dennard. “Chip was a great shooter, but he was a sophomore and this was our senior night, so Coach drew the play up and Gene was supposed to set a pick down the baseline and Chip would come over to the sideline and hit the corner jumper. “When we broke the huddle I looked at Gene, he looked at me and we really never had to talk,” he continued. “I did say, ‘You know what to do, come to the top.’ It was a magical play, you are in a zone and not really sure what is happening, you just do things on instinct. “The key to making it work was the fact that I threw him open. I led him to where he had to turn; it wasn’t something I did consciously. If I

had thrown it directly to him he wouldn’t have time to catch, turn and shoot. By leading him to the open spot he was able to catch it and shoot. “The ball went in and the place went crazy — it was the loudest I’ve ever heard the building for over a minute,” added Dennard. “All you did was have goose bumps, it was an incredible experience.” “The pass is what set it up,” said Banks. “Kenny and I never discussed what we were going to do, we just knew. I would never have a chance to make the shot if it weren’t for the pass to set me up in the right spot. I was able to catch it moving and shoot it. I knew Perkins was following me so when I turned I figured he would be there but just arched it over his hand.” When the ball swished through the net, Cameron erupted. The shot by Banks had tied the 11th-ranked Tar Heels, and in his first season as the Duke head coach Krzyzewski was looking at the chance to win his third game of the season over a nationally-ranked team, and first over North Carolina. But the shot had only tied the game and there was still an overtime period to be played. Banks wasn’t about to let the Blue Devils lose and have the Tar Heels, of all people, spoil his Senior Day. He did what Banks could do with his Adonis-like body, he rebounded, scored and took over the game. Strapping the Blue Devils to his back he scored six of the eight points in the extra session, the final two coming with 12 seconds left to seal the win 66-65. For Duke students and fans, February 28, 1981 may well have been the perfect day. The combo factor of great things happening was incredible. For much of the crowd, a win over nationally-ranked Carolina on Senior Day in Cameron Indoor and then a one-hour drive to Greensboro for a Bruce Springsteen concert capped off the ruining Dean Smith’s 50th birthday. What a perfect day to be a Blue Devil. Johnny Moore’s new book The Blue Divide: Duke, North Carolina and the Battle on Tobacco Road, is available at book stores and on Amazon.com.

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A vintage Cameron finish for Duke women By Bradley Amersbach Cameron Indoor Stadium has played host to its share of exciting and memorable Duke-North Carolina women’s basketball games, but for many Blue Devil fans, the most unforgettable Tobacco Road rivalry contest came on Jan. 25, 1995. Heading into the contest, Duke was midway through a turn-around season that saw the Blue Devils win 15 of their first 17 games to open the 1994-95 campaign, nearly matching the 16 games the team won through all of the previous season. Head coach Gail Goestenkors, in the midst of her third season in Durham, seemed to be establishing a team that could contend with national-caliber programs, but the Blue Devils lacked that signature win. So when the Tar Heels made the nine-mile trip from Chapel Hill to

face Duke in Cameron, it was no surprise that the Blue Devils found themselves as the underdog in the contest. And why not? North Carolina was ranked third in the nation, had earned 32 consecutive wins and was the defending national champion. The Tar Heels also owned a six-game win streak over the Blue Devils, with North Carolina nationally ranked in five of those six meetings. But the recent success for the Blue Devils had the team confident coming into their matchup with North Carolina. “We had not yet had a breakout season,” said Duke center Ali Day. “We hadn’t made the NCAA Tournament in years. For us, it was one of those moments that everything was seeming to come together, and it was exciting for everyone on the team and everyone in the stadium.”

A contest between Duke and North Carolina is always certain to draw a big crowd, and the game on Jan. 25 was no different. A raucous group of 5,000 spectators would occupy the seats in Cameron, the largest number of fans to attend a game that season. “Typically, women’s basketball games don’t get a lot of fans,” Day said. “When I was there, we had a few hundred fans at each game, especially compared to the men’s basketball team that was selling out every game. It was pretty unusual (to have that many fans attend the game), but people get excited about Carolina. The place was packed. It was definitely packed for a women’s basketball game. We also had a lot of student support.” Although few Duke players require extra incentive when competing against North Carolina, Day credits the large crowd for providing the Blue Devils with an added boost and a much-needed home-court advantage against a tough opponent. But even with the encouragement from the fans, the Blue Devils still trailed at half, 36-33. As the second half got underway, the game continued to prove a tightly contested matchup between the two sides. With 1:28 on the clock, and Duke trailing 72-68, consecutive buckets by Day’s teammates, Kira Orr and Tyish Hall, brought the game even at 72-72. Duke stopped the clock with three seconds remaining and a chance to end its six-game losing streak against ranked opponents. With the timeout called, Goestenkors huddled the team and drew up an inbounds play. “The play was drawn up, not to go to me,” Day recalled. “The person who was inbounding, Jen Scanlon, was supposed to throw it to Tyish Hall. Coach G drew up a great play, and Ty Hall was wide open, but UNC had put Gwendolyn Gillingham in front of Jen, and she was 6-7, so Jen couldn’t see Ty wide open. I was the safety.” Day ran along the baseline, caught the inbounds pass from Scanlon with her back to the basket, faked once, turned to the hoop and put up a fade-away jump shot. As the ball sailed toward the rim, Day was less than convinced that it would hit its mark. “I thought to myself, ‘Shoot, I missed this,’” Day said. “But with a lot of things that happened that year, the bounce was perfect.” The ball hit the rim and took numerous bounces as the crowd of 5,000 anxiously waited to see if the game would end or head into overtime. After what felt like an eternity, the ball fell through the net, sealing the win for Duke and earning the Blue Devils their first win against North Carolina at home since 1991. “When it went through, I just ran to center court,” Day said. “Our point guard, Kira Orr, was there and we hugged each other, and then everyone stormed the floor. It was just a sea of humanity. Kira and I were on the bottom of this pile on.” Day has a hunch that a select portion of the student-body representation at the game, most notably members of the Duke football team, had a role in motivating the fans to rush the court, but the exuberance and excitement that spilled on to the court provided a perfect example of the excitement beginning to surround the program. The win over North Carolina would serve as the signature victory the team needed, bolstering the confidence of the team and making those across the country recognize the Duke program as a contender to play in the NCAA Tournament. For the first time in eight years, the Blue Devils would go on to play in the tournament, reaching the second round before falling to No. 13 Alabama in a hard-fought four-overtime loss. Day scored a career-high 37 points in the contest, which stood as a school record until 2003, when Alana Beard scored 41 against Virginia, and she would go on to record a career-high 499 points that season. But Duke fans are most likely to recall those two points she scored on that fateful day in Cameron. Since Day concluded her career in 1996 with 1,235 points, Duke has gone on to reach the NCAA Tournament 18 straight seasons, while making two appearances in the national championship game over that span. And although the success of the program may not be traced back directly to the day on Jan. 25 when Duke defeated a nationally-ranked Tar Heel team in Cameron Indoor Stadium, a foundation had certainly been laid and that particular game served as an indicator of things to come.

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An atmosphere that never grows old By LESLIE GABER The enigmatic euphoria which identifies Cameron Indoor Stadium is singular and wondrously special. Its component parts: the loyal and devoted students the intellectually innovative Crazies the band with its roving bass horn section the smiling, welcoming ushers the energetic ball boys the competent and dedicated coaching staff the talented players and the true blue fans all contribute to an aura that reminds one of attending a perfectly planned family reunion. This inherent and exemplary Duke sporting spirit forms an ideal complement to the durability of the magnificent stone walls which frame the structure itself. The spirit and the stone are as one. Cameron is a unique and mystically memorable experience. My family and I have lived it, nurtured it and cherished it for 65 years. — Wense Grabarek

ttending a game in Cameron Indoor Stadium is an experience sought after by many, topping bucket lists and selling out tickets season after season. For those who have frequented the stands throughout the building’s rich 75-year history, the experience remains just as remarkable each time they enter the Gothic halls to cheer on the Blue Devils. The stepdaughter of the man for whom the building is named, Martha Erwin Uzzle, has had her seats in the second row of section 15 since 1955. But Uzzle frequented Duke games for several years prior with her mother, her siblings and the man she affectionately calls “Big Eddie.” Legend has it that Uzzle’s stepfather, Edmund M. Cameron, conceived the original plans for the facility with renowned football coach Wallace Wade on the back of a matchbook cover. Though today the building is known for its intimacy — with none of the 9,314 seats too far from the court — at the time of its construction in 1940 it was the largest basketball arena south of Philadelphia. Cameron, then the coach of the men’s basketball team, directed the Blue Devils to a 36-27 victory over Princeton in the inaugural game at Duke Indoor Stadium January 6, 1940. With Cameron overseeing Duke’s basketball program and serving as an assistant football coach (and stepping in as head coach when Wade entered military service during World War II), Uzzle’s upbringing was intertwined with Blue Devil athletics. She recalls being brought along to meetings with Wade as the gridiron coaches reviewed game tape on

Sundays, and playing on Cameron’s secretaries’ typewriters during time spent in the athletic offices. As a teenager, she had a summer job counting out football tickets with a friend in the back room of the stadium. And after Cameron assumed the role of Director of Physical Education and Athletics in 1946, Uzzle’s mother, Mary Toms Erwin Cameron, hosted dinners at the family’s home to raise funds for teams’ athletic equipment. Although she attended St. Catherine’s in Richmond, Va., for high school, Uzzle returned to Durham in 1951 as a Duke freshman. She watched the games from the student section — then located on the opposite side of the court — and supported peers such as Dick Groat. The building was dedicated Cameron Indoor Stadium on January 22, 1972. At Cameron’s funeral, held in the Duke Chapel 16 years later in 1988, five members of the then-top ranked men’s basketball team served as pallbearers. “Duke means everything in the world to my family,” Uzzle says. Wense Grabarek, who served as Durham’s mayor during the 1960s, also knew the man for whom Cameron Indoor Stadium is named. “His presence always represented a bearing of impeccable character and integrity,” he said. “Cameron is a name that aptly befits ‘Our House.’” For Grabarek, attending games all these many years meant quality time with his four children, beholding Duke greats such as Groat, Art Heyman and Jeff Mullins, and later on the likes of Christian Laettner and Grant Hill. As a witness to the Vic Bubas era, he saw the Blue Devils burst onto the national scene with a trip to the 1964 NCAA championship game and two other Final Fours over a four-year period. Remarkable to Grabarek, even after all these years, are the “intrinsic” feelings evoked by the atmosphere and the building itself — especially to those who have never set foot in Cameron. He recalls dining once at a restaurant in Emerald Isle where the manager expressed interest in one day taking in a game. When Grabarek extended an invitation, the man was so appreciative he afterwards called to say he was going to amend his will to include Grabarek. Duke games have also been a family affair for Nan Schiebel, who like Uzzle sits center court in section 15. Her late husband received original tickets in 1940 — the first year in Duke Indoor Stadium — because of his residency work as a volunteer physician at Duke football games. A native of Durham, Schiebel’s father was on the original staff at the Duke Hospital, which opened its doors in 1930. She graduated from Duke, as did her daughter, who now accompanies her to men’s and women’s games, occasionally bringing Schiebel’s grandchildren as well. Although Schiebel completed her master’s degree at North Carolina, she says she is “Duke Blue through and through.” She has enjoyed the fact that even as the faces on the court and in the seats around her have come and gone over the years, the atmosphere and identity of Cameron has remained the same. “The crowd is wonderful,” she says. “The students are one of the reasons that the team has been so successful and that it’s fun going to the games. I love the stadium. I’ve gone to other places, and they’re always so big and you’re so far away from the floor. Cameron, you feel like you’re part of the game. It’s home.”