#ForgottenFields Football fields that UNC has played on but no longer exist, in no particular order:
1888-Game 1, North Carolina State Fairgrounds.
#ForgottenFields UNC Campus Athletic Field I (north, 1888-1904) and Campus Athletic Field II/Emerson Field (1906-1927)
#ForgottenFields Trinity Park (Duke's first Durham campus). Notice the horse racetrack from the time the area was a county fair grounds.
#ForgottenFields Manhattan Field (Polo Grounds II. Not as well known as Polo Grounds III/IV which was directly north, this venue hosted the first southern team to play in the north when UNC played Lehigh in 1893.
#ForgottenFields UNC football has played in four venues in Richmond, Virginia one of which, City Stadium, is still in use. The others were Mayo Island Park/Tate Field
#ForgottenFields West End Park in Richmond was only home to a professional baseball team from 1894-1896 and UNC played a football game there each of those years (and maybe 1897). (Field orientation estimated.)
#ForgottenFields Broad Street Park in Richmond was known for incorporating a house in the outfield wall (not shown) and UNC played football there, sometimes two games a year, from 1897 or 1898 until 1916. (Field orientation estimated.)
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