[log in to unmask] (Kevin B. Powers) writes: >On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, William E. Corrigan, Jr. wrote: >> I don't rember that the RPI/Houston Fieldhose ever had a >> centerhung, four-sided scoreboard, but perhaps there was one immediately >> following the renovation and then they went to the present set-up after a >> brief experiment. >I was told by a co-worker, who attended RPI at the time of the >Fieldhouse renovation or shortly after, that the new roof trusses were >not designed to carry the load of a centerhung scoreboard, so one was never >installed. I'd have to check, but I'm sure I saw what was a small center hung scoreboard in one of the yearbooks from the early 80's. >Ironic for an engineering school, but a least they were smart enough not >to try.62q Well, since the place used to have more columns, and they were removed, I guess it would make sense not to risk something like that. Nazman <[log in to unmask]> http://www.rpi.edu/~nasadk/ http://apo.union.rpi.edu/ HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.