Foster Auditorium

Foster Auditorium

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Building # 7059 | Abbreviation: FO

  • Women’s Basketball
  • Women’s Volleyball

Foster Auditorium, built in 1939, houses the women’s basketball and volleyball programs.

The historic auditorium was named after the 16th University president Richard Clarke Foster who died in office November, 1941. The multipurpose facility had a seating capacity of 5,400 and was used for graduation exercises, indoor athletics events, concerts, lectures, and other large gatherings, including registration.

Foster Auditorium is the site of Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace's "stand in the schoolhouse door" on June 11, 1963. The building also housed the women's athletics programs during the 1970s and 1980s. After the women’s athletics programs were moved, the Department of Kinesiology was partially housed in Foster until 2006.

Information collected from The University of Alabama : a guide to the campus by Robert Oliver Mellown (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1988), The University of Alabama, a pictorial history by Suzanne Rau Wolfe (University : University of Alabama Press, c1983), and RollTide.com’s Facilities page.