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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 1920’s 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.

 

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 1950’s 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.

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-Tenant: North Carolina Tar Heels
-Conference: ACC
-Capacity: 60,000
-Surface: 
Grass
-Opened: November 27, 1927
-Cost:
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KENAN STADIUM PICTURES

Players in the NFL: Sam Aiken, Ron Curry, Julius Peppers
School Traditions: University Day and the Mascot, a Ram

Orbitz

-9/1 - JAMES MADISON
-9/8 - at East Carolina
-9/15 - VIRGINIA
-9/22 - at South Florida
-9/29 - at Virginia Tech
-10/6 - MIAMI
-10/13 - SOUTH CAROLINA
-10/27 - at Wake Forest
-11/3 - MARYLAND
-11/10 - at NC State
-11/17 - at Georgia Tech
-11/24 - DUKE

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