students eventually referred to it as the Tin Can and the name stuck. It was located between what is now Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower and Woollen Gymnasium along South Road, on the site of what is now Fetzer Hall. The Bell Tower's chimes would make the Tin Can's roof reverberate. There was no air conditioning, heating, or insulation in the Tin Can, which left it freezing in the winter and "like an oven" in the summer. Dripping water would often leak down the walls and form icicles. By 1927, players wore sweatshirts and gloves while warming up due to the cold conditions in the venue and its lack of heating, and later, effective heating. In 1929, it was announced that there would be a renovation to add a heating system. In addition, there will be a place created for a stage to be placed for concerts. Despite the installation of a heating system, players and coaches still complained about the temperature. Near the end of December 1940, the Tin Can was announced to be receiving a $4,000 paint job on the exterior. Backboards that were used by the students were replaced, along with the addition of signs and partitions placed at the entrance. One writer expressed that the floors were "spic and span" after not having been cleaned in a long time. Since there were no showers in the building, athletes and students would have to head to their dormitories or Emerson Field to shower. Due to continued heating issues, small electric heaters that featured blowers were used, but this proved ineffective. Heaters would be placed near the benches during games, while the crowd had no heaters in their area. There were four heaters that the Tin Can had in 1940. History The first game in the Tin Can was played on January 8, 1924, when Carolina squared off against Mercer University. Two thousand people turned up for the game. The Tar Heel wrote following the game: "Two thousand spectators, well-wrapped in overcoats, shivered away in the spacious and airy and saw the 'Tin Can' christened with a victory." The Tar Heels concluded the 1923–24 campaign and season in the Tin Can undefeated. The team was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. As success continued into Southern Conference play in the 1930s, the capacity of the Tin Can proved insufficient to meet