Cameron Indoor Stadium
The stadium was established in 1940 and was renamed in honor of Eddie Cameron who was born April 22nd 1902 and died on November 25th 1988.
“According to go duke.com” He was the head football coach at Duke from 1942 to 1945 during that time his team finished with a 25-11-1 record that year while also making an appearance in the sugar bowl. I can’t believe this but during his time as head football coach he never lost a game to our rival North Carolina who is eight miles down the road in Chapel Hill. Can you believe that? After his coaching career he became the athletic director at Duke in 1952 and then retired from the great university in 1972.
Before the stadium became Cameron Indoor Stadium it was called Duke Indoor Stadium but I have only known it as Cameron. Before I was born my mom would sit in section eight row C seat 17 along with my dad and his friend. That all changed when I turned ten in 2001 and my dad took me to my first Duke Men’s Basketball game. I was hooked after that first game experience at Cameron, Now 25; I still sit in the same seat every Duke home game along with my dad and his best friend cheering for my favorite team through victory defeat. If you’re not a basketball fan or sports fan at all going for the experience itself is great! Did I mention there is no other place like it ? Cameron is not like the Dean Dome, It’s not huge and the students who are seated down stairs, some of them come painted with royal blue paint on their bodies and fantastic signs! Along with that come some awesome chants as well from the Cameron Crazies. When one of our players is at the free throw line, fans put their hands up and if the free throw goes in we go whoosh! If a player for the opposing team is at the free throw line we move our hands to distract the player at the line to hopefully make him miss! One of my favorite chants is see ya! When we move our hands in a vibrating motion till the opposing player leaves the court after he fouls. Another one of my favorites is chanting the players name when he is doing well, for example Gray-son Al/ len or Luuuuke for Luke Kennard. Did I mention it gets extremely loud during games? And when it does the whole stadium shakes.
During the Atlantic Coast Conference season the dedicated students start camping out in Krzyzwskiville starting in January when the weather turns cold just to get inside Cameron for the biggest game of the year, a battle on Tobacco Road against our arch rival North Carolina!