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When Cameron Became Cameron

Cameron Indoor Stadium spent its first 32 years as the more prosaic Duke Indoor Stadium.

That changed on the afternoon of January 22, 1972 when an undermanned but gritty Duke team stunned third-ranked North Carolina, an epic upset sandwiched around a halftime ceremony in which Cameron became Cameron.

Eddie Cameron was wrapping up a 44-year career as a Duke coach and athletic director when Duke decided to honor him.

Bucky Waters was Duke's head coach in 1972. "Eddie Cameron was huge in my life," Waters recalls. "He brought me to Duke, twice. He was a man's man, a handshake guy.