Band playing at first game in Carter-Finley Stadium

Carter-Finley Stadium, NC State University (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Title:
Band playing at first game in Carter-Finley Stadium
Description:
Photograph taken at first game played in Carter-Finley Stadium. Subject: Band; Department: Music Department; Date: 10-8-66; Description: Band pictures made at South Carolina and State game, Carter Stadium; Ordered by: Don Odcock; Photographer: L.S. Bennett
Topics:
Campus and Town
Subjects:
Marching bands
Original Format:
Black and white print (photograph)
Item identifier:
ua100_099_500854_20260603_239722
Photographer:
Bennett, Landis S. (Landis Seawell), 1908- more info on Bennett, Landis S. (Landis Seawell), 1908- 
Created Date:
Names:
North Carolina State University -- Bands more info on North Carolina State University -- Bands 
North Carolina State University -- Football more info on North Carolina State University -- Football 
Location:
Raleigh (N.C.)
Digital Project:
University Archives

Building: North Carolina State University, Carter-Finley Stadium (Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina)

Built:
Street:
State Route 3036
Community:
NC State University
State:
NC
Zip:
27607
Historical note:
The stadium honors Wilbert James (Nick) Carter (1902-1972) , Harry Clifton Carter (1908-1990), and Albert Earle Finley (1895-1985). The two Carter brothers graduated from NC State from the school of Textiles and became top executives in the J. P. Stevens Company. They contributed several hundred thousand dollars to fundraising for completion of the stadium. In 1937, the Carter brothers formed their own company, Carter Fabrics of Greensboro, and merged with the J.P. Stevens Corporation. The family was particularly involved with support of the NC State school of textiles. NC State awarded an honorary Doctor of Textile Science degree to Nick Carter in 1943. Finley was also a strong supporter of the athletics program at NC State. After two years of business school in Virginia, he became a stenographer for the Baltimore, Chesapeake, and Atlantic Railroad Company, rapidly working his way to a position of secretary to the general manager. Finley, a former US Army 2nd Lieutenant, soon became involved in the sale of heavy construction equipment and eventually started his own business, the Raleigh Tractor and Equipment Company. Finley kept an active interest in supporting the college, and even donated a motel on Western Boulevard to the Wolfpack Club as an athletics dormitory.
Location:
Raleigh (N.C.)
Subjects:
Sports facilities
Stadiums
Latitude, Longitude:
35.800804, -78.719482