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4 unusual facts about Gutterson Fieldhouse


Albert Gutterson

The university's athletic complex, Gutterson Fieldhouse, home to the Catamount men's and women's hockey teams is named after him.

Gutterson Fieldhouse

He set an Olympic record with a 7.60 meter long jump, beating, among others, the great Jim Thorpe.

It was the venue for the first women's hockey game ever nationally televised in the US (in 1997, a pre-Olympic game between Canada and the United States in the Four Nations Cup), and between 1995 and 2000, and again in 2002, it was the preseason training camp site of the New York Rangers.

(The Hartford Whalers had previously held their 1992 and 1993 training camps there.)



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