Ticket for a college football game between the University of North Carolina (UNC) Tarheels and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, held at UNC's Kenan Memorial Stadium on October 8, 1960. In what was their Homecoming Game, UNC won the matchup 12-7. It was UNC's first victory against Notre Dame after ten consecutive losses, starting in 1949.
Kenan Memorial Stadium was built in 1927. In 2018 the University of North Carolina removed Memorial from the building's name as the man it was named after, William R. Kenan, was a white supremacist who murdered African Americans during the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898.
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