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Originally posted by RecRef
You had walls?!?!?! 
Jr high we had our games outdoors. Sr. High we did have a gym but not all of the schools did.
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Are you kidding? I went to HS in the south Chicago suburbs. The school district cared a million times more about athletics than academics.
My HS had a huge gym that would seat almost 3000 and could be divided up into three full size courts. At basketball games, the visitors would be warming up with our team still in the locker room. All of a sudden, the lights would dim, the band would start playing the school fight song, the cheerleaders would get a huge paper hoop with an outline of the state of Illinois on it with a big star where our city was located and hold it in front of the locker room door. The door would open and the first player crashed through the paper hoop, led the team down the court for layups, but the first 3 guys always dunked the ball (it was legal then). The packed-in crowd went nuckin' futz and the visitors were beat before the game even started. It was way cool.
We also had two separate older full size gyms, both with bleachers. We had a cinder track around our football field, which sat over 4000. We had a gymnastics room, wrestling room and olympic sized indoor pool, all with bleachers. Two block away was the baseball stadium, with real dugouts, locker rooms and an electronic scoreboard (remember, this was the 60s). We had lighted tennis courts and a huge practice field for PE classes, plus classrooms in the athletic wing used only for training. Oh yeah, there was a weight room, too.
And, to top it off, we had an fieldhouse with a clay floor for indoor track. We used it for PE volleyball and trampolines.
Occasionally, we went to class.
[Edited by Mark Padgett on Apr 12th, 2002 at 04:53 PM]