USMA Visit II

Caufield Crew and Sailing Center

If you haven’t been back ina few years, you definately haven’t seen the new crew and sailing center. I never had the pleasure of visiting the old one, but I doubt it holds a candle to the new facility. We weren’t able to get into Caufield while we were there, but if the inside is anywhere near the fit and finish of the outside, it has to be a palace. As you can see from the picture below, there’s essentially two buildings. The one on the left may even have two levels to it. I’m assuming by the four overhead doors that the main level is used for boat storage. Who knows — the way things are going they might have an entire amusement park in there. It’s hard to believe there wasn’t even internet access in the barracks when we showed up, isn’t it? Of course, I’m sure there’s some 40’s grad out there saying “It’s hard to believe we didn’t even have running water in the barracks, isn’t it?” As long as there’s a grad one year older than the graduating class, you’ll always hear “the corps has”. Bottom line — nice building.

Anderson Rugby Complex

That’s right. A Rugby complex. Complete with interior and exterior viewing areas, two lit playing fields, home and visitor locker rooms, weight room, cardio room, and who knows what else. Again, we weren’t able to get into the building, but it looks nice from the outside and the fields were impeccable. It’s down by the Hudson (near North or Target Hill Athletic fields — I can’t remember which was which). I know for some of you hard-core ‘99ers there can be no replacement for a Saturday afternoon Rugby match on the concrete pitch that is Buffalo-Soldier Field, but I think you could learn to appreciate the new digs given enough time. Maybe a microsecond or two. Lee and Penny Anderson did this up right, that’s for sure.

Well that’s it for this update. More tours to follow.