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During the early years of Ivy League women’s athletics, many teams suffered setbacks that ranged from poor facilities to a lack of adequate funding. Determination, commitment, and ingenuity were therefore essential to team survival. For instance, the Brown women’s tennis squad, with low levels of funding in the mid-1970s, could not enjoy the same luxuries as the men’s team, which often took spring trips to various locales to play unofficial matches. Some of the women players wanted to share in that experience, so they came up with a creative and profitable method of funding their own spring trips. The men’s and women’s teams decided to combine their moneyraising efforts and show movies on late Saturday nights to paying viewers in the school swimming pool.
But, these were no ordinary movies; they were X-rated pornographic movies, and the teams were graciously assisted by Jim Dougherty, who held dual roles as the men’s tennis head coach and dean of students at the time and who agreed to “look the other way” on the matter. At Brown’s Silver Anniversary event in November 1998, former tennis player Nancy Fuld recalled, “It was great fun to see who came to those movies, and even better to hear their excuses for being there.” The spectacle went largely unnoticed until after the women had returned from their trip, when then-head coach Joan Taylor asked one of her players how they had raised so much money in a relatively short amount of time. As Brown’s current senior associate director of athletics, Taylor now works with less risque fundraising activities.
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