Ferrum's weight room is named in honor of seven former football players and Coach Rick Tolley, who all died in the Nov. 1970 Marshall plane crash.
Ferrum College's weight room is located on the lower level of Swartz Gymnasium was given a major facelift in the summer of 2001. The facility is named the
Big Green Room, in honor of the seven former Ferrum football players players and Coach Rick Tolley who perished in the Marshall University airline tragedy in November of 1970.
The Big Green Room houses eight power racks (each with 0-90 degree benches), dumbbell stations, two free-standing benches, two incline benches, and leg/hip/neck machines, all spread out over approximately 2,000 square feet of space. On the south wall hangs a listing of football weight room records.