Kenan book released: Everything you want to know

Posted Aug 10, 2016
Where did the title come from? The great sports columnist Furman Bisher (UNC ’38) came to Chapel Hill in November of 1980 to write a piece on the Carolina-Duke game for his newspaper, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and waxed poetic about the venue....He wrote, “This is football in a forest, a setting in which knights of old would have met for a joust.” (Kenan Journal)

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