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 Kenan
Stadium
Chapel Hill, NC
Home of the North Carolina
Tar Heels, Kenan Stadium is oftentimes called one of the most beautiful
college football stadiums. In the mid 1920s a new stadium for the
North Carolina football program was needed. By 1926 donations were
being accepted in order to build a new facility. After only raising a
small portion of what it would cost to build a new stadium, William
Rand Kenan Jr. made a significant contribution. He provided financial
support to build a new stadium to honor his parents, therefore the
stadium was named Kenan Stadium. Construction on the stadium began in
November 1926 and was completed in 1927.
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The Tar Heels played their
first game at Kenan Stadium on November 27, 1927 against Davidson
College. The stadium originally had a capacity of 24,000. However in
the 1950s Kenan gave $1 million for a second deck for the stadium.
The upper deck was built in 1963 increasing the capacity to 48,000.
That was the first of many expansions at Kenan Stadium. Additional
expansions came in 1979, 1988, 1997 and 1998 bring the capacity to
60,000. After the 1987 football season, 2,000 seats between the 40
yard lines were constructed along with a new press box atop the upper
deck on the south side. Recently, a $2 million scoreboard was
installed along with the building of the Kenan Football Center that
houses the Hall of Honor, locker rooms, and the Carolinas Football
Program. Today fans pack Kenan Stadium to see the Tar Heels battle in
this grand facility. In October 2007 the university announced plans to
expand the stadium by up to 15,000 seats in the east endzone. Funding
for this project has yet to be determined and construction is unlikely
to begin for one or two years.
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