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Encyclopedia > North Carolina Tar Heels football
North Carolina Tar Heels
Head Coach Butch Davis
1st Year, 4-8
Home Stadium Kenan Memorial Stadium
Capacity 60,000 - Natural Grass
Conference ACC - Coastal
First Year 1888
Athletic Director Dick Baddour
Website www.tarheelblue.com
Team Records
All-time Record 630-470-55
Postseason
Bowl Record
12-13
Awards
Conference Titles 8
All-Americans 57
Pageantry
Colors Carolina Blue and White            
Fight song I'm a Tar Heel Born
and Here Comes Carolina
Mascot Rameses
Marching Band The Marching Tar Heels
For information specifically about the 2007 season, see 2007 North Carolina Tar Heels football team.

The North Carolina Tar Heels football team represents the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in collegiate level football. Over its nearly 120 years of existence, the program has won 630 games, boasts an all-time winning percentage of .569, and has appeared in 25 bowl games. The team's most recent bowl victory came in the 2001 Peach Bowl, in which they defeated the Auburn Tigers 16-10. Since joining the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953, the team has won 5 conference championships, with the most recent title coming in 1980. Paul Hilton Butch Davis, Jr. ... The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. ... Carolina Blue is a light blue tertiary color. ... Alternate meanings: White (disambiguation) White is a color (more accurately it contains all the colors of the spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. ... Im a Tar Heel Born is the official fight song of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. The song originated in the late 1920s as an add-on, or tag, to the schools alma mater, Hark the Sound. ... Here Comes Carolina is a fight song of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The 2007 North Carolina Tar Heels football team will represent the University of North Carolina in the 2007 college football season. ... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ... This article covers college football played in the United States. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played in Atlanta, Georgia since December, 1968. ... Auburn Tigers is the name given to Auburn University athletic teams. ... The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. ...


One very important contribution to the game of football by UNC is the modern use of the forward pass. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was the first college team to use the forward pass in 1895. Bob Quincy notes in his 1973 book They Made the Bell Tower Chime: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ...

John Heisman, a noted historian, wrote 30 years later that, indeed, the Tar Heels had given birth to the forward pass against the Bulldogs (UGA). It was conceived to break a scoreless deadlock and give UNC a 6-0 win. The Carolinians were in a punting situation and a Georgia rush seemed destined to block the ball. The punter, with an impromptu dash to his right, tossed the ball and it was caught by George Stephens, who ran 70 yards for a touchdown.

The team plays its home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium, located on-campus at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. At the beginning of the 4th quarter, AC/DC's "Hells Bells" is played and students hold up four fingers indicating the quarter. Kenan Stadium Kenan Memorial Stadium is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and is the home field of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels. ... Nickname: Location in North Carolina Coordinates: , Country State Counties Orange, Durham, and Chatham Founded 1793 Government  - Mayor Kevin C. Foy Area  - City  19. ...


While not a perennial powerhouse, the North Carolina football program has had intermittent success and has featured a number of great players, many of whom have gone on to prominence in the National Football League. Among the program's most outstanding alumni are Lawrence Taylor, Jeff Saturday, Alge Crumpler, Willie Parker, Greg Ellis, Dre Bly, and Julius Peppers. NFL redirects here. ... Lawrence Julius Taylor (born February 4, 1959, in Williamsburg, Virginia), commonly referred to as LT, is a retired Hall of Fame American football player. ... Jeffrey Bryant Saturday (born June 8, 1975) is the Indianapolis Colts starting center. ... Algernon Darius Alge Crumpler (born December 23, 1977) is an American football player in the National Football League, currently playing for the Atlanta Falcons. ... For the offensive lineman of the same name see Willie Parker (offensive lineman). ... Greg Lemont Ellis (born August 14, 1975) is an American Football player who currently plays linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL. Ellis was a standout player with The North Carolina Tarheels, where he holds the school record in sacks. ... Donald André Bly (born May 22, 1977 in Chesapeake, Virginia), better known as Dré Bly, is an American football player. ... Julius Frazier Peppers (born January 18, 1980 in Wilson, North Carolina) is a professional American football player. ...


On November 13, 2006, the program took a considerable step toward possible prominence by hiring as head coach Butch Davis, former head coach of the Miami Hurricanes and Cleveland Browns.[1] In addition, the school pledged that they would fund the football program to the same extent that their dominant Men's and Women's basketball teams are funded. is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Paul Hilton Butch Davis, Jr. ... This is an article about the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. ... Browns redirects here. ...


On February 7, 2007, Butch Davis and staff inked one of the top recruiting classes in North Carolina football history, earning national recognition from the recruiting industry's most influential websites, including Scout.com, Rivals.com and ESPN.com. Though all did not qualify academically, this class did include some of the nation's most highly sought after recruits including Marvin Austin, Greg Little, Dwight Jones, Mike Paulus and Tydreke Powell. is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... Rivals is a network of websites that focus mainly on college football and basketball recruiting. ... ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN and a division of ESPN Inc. ... Marvin Austin (born January 1, 1989, Washington, D.C.), is a defensive tackle for Ballou Senior High School. ... Dwight Elmo Jones (born February 27, 1952 in Houston, Texas) is a retired American professional basketball player. ...

Contents

North Carolina head football coaches

Tenure Coach Years Record Pct.
1889 Hector Cowan 1 2-2 .500
1894 V.K. Irvine 1 6-3 .667
1895 T.C. Trenchard 1 7-1-1 .833
1896 Gordon Johnston 1 3-4-1 .438
1897-00 W.A. Reynolds 4 27-7-4 .763
1901 Charles Jenkins 1 7-2 .778
1902-03 H.S. Olcott 2 11-4-3 .694
1904 R.R. Brown 1 5-2-2 .667
1905 William Warner 1 4-3-1 .563
1906 W.S. Keinholz 1 1-4-2 .286
1907 Otis Lamson 1 4-4-1 .500
1908 Edward Green 1 3-3-3 .500
1909-10 A.E. Brides 2 8-8 .500
1911 Branch Bocock 1 6-1-1 .813
1912 W.C. Martin 1 3-4-1 .438
1913-15 H.C. Trenchard 4 26-9-2 .730
1916-19 Thomas Campbell 2 9-7-1 .559
1920 M.E. Fuller 1 2-6 .250
1921-25 Fetzler 5 30-12-4 .696
1926-33 Chuck Collins 8 38-31-9 .545
1936-41 Ray Wolf 6 38-17-3 .681
1943 Tom Young 1 6-3 .667
1944 George McEver 1 1-7-1 .167
1945-52 Carl Snavely 10 59-35-5 .621
1953-55 George Barclay 3 11-18-1 .383
1956-58 Jim Tatum 4 19-17-3 .526
1959-66 Jim Hickey 8 36-45 .444
1967-77 Bill Dooley 11 69-53-2 .565
1978-87 Dick Crum 10 72-41-3 .634
1988-97 Mack Brown 10 69-46-1 .599
1998-00 Carl Torbush 3 17-18 .486
2001-06 John Bunting 6 27-45 .375
2007- Butch Davis 1 4-8 .333
1889-2007 33 coaches 113 630-470-55 . 545
† During the years 1888 and 1891-93, the Tar Heels had no official head coach. Over those four seasons, the Tar Heels went 8-9.
‡ In 1890, the Tar Heels did not field a team.

Hector Cowan (born July 12, 1863) was an American football player. ... Branch Bocock was the head football coach for Virginia Tech from 1909 to 1915. ... James M. Jim Tatum (July 22, 1913—July 23, 1959) was the legendary coach of the Maryland Terrapins football team from 1947-1955. ... Jim Hickey is a Major League Baseball pitching coach for the Houston Astros. ... Bill Dooley at Wake Forest Bill Dooley was a head football coach, most noteably of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels from 1967 to 1977. ... Richard D. Dick Crum (b. ... William Mack Brown (born August 27, 1951) is head coach of the University of Texas Longhorn football team. ... Carl Torbush is a former college football head coach for Louisiana Tech and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ... John Bunting (b. ... Paul Hilton Butch Davis, Jr. ...

Championships

Conference Championships

Conference Affiliations This page lists winners of the football championship of the Atlantic Coast Conference since its founding in 1953. ...

  • 1947: Independent
  • 1948-1950: Dixie Conference
  • 1953: ACC
Year Conference Overall Record Conference Record
1922 Southern 9-1 5-1
1946 Southern 8-2-1 4-0-1
1949 Dixie 7-4 5-0
1963 ACC 9-2 5-1
1971 ACC 9-3 6-0
1972 ACC 11-1 6-0
1977 ACC 8-3-1 5-0-1
1980 ACC 11-1 7-0
Total conference championships 8

Records

All-time bowl record

North Carolina has played in 25 bowl games in its history and owns a 12-13 record in those games. NCAA Division I-A independent schools are four-year institutions whose football programs are not part of an NCAA-affiliated conference. ... The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. ...

Date Bowl W/L Opponent PF PA
January 1, 1946 Sugar Bowl L Georgia 10 20
January 1, 1948 Sugar Bowl L Oklahoma 6 14
January 2, 1949 Cotton Bowl L Rice 13 27
December 28, 1963 Gator Bowl W Air Force 35 0
December 30, 1970 Peach Bowl L Arizona State 26 48
December 31, 1971 Gator Bowl L Georgia 3 7
December 30, 1972 Sun Bowl W Texas Tech 32 28
December 28, 1974 Sun Bowl L Mississippi State 24 26
December 31, 1976 Peach Bowl L Kentucky 0 21
December 19, 1977 Liberty Bowl L Nebraska 17 21
December 28, 1979 Gator Bowl W Michigan 17 15
December 31, 1980 Bluebonnet Bowl W Texas 16 7
December 28, 1981 Gator Bowl W Arkansas 31 27
December 25, 1982 Sun Bowl W Texas 26 10
December 30, 1983 Peach Bowl L Florida State 3 28
December 27, 1986 Aloha Bowl L Arizona 21 30
January 2, 1992 Peach Bowl W Mississippi State 21 17
December 31, 1993 Gator Bowl L Alabama 10 24
December 30, 1994 Sun Bowl L Texas 30 35
December 30, 1995 CarQuest Bowl W Arkansas 20 10
January 1, 1996 Gator Bowl W West Virginia 20 13
January 1, 1997 Gator Bowl W Virginia Tech 42 3
December 19, 1998 Las Vegas Bowl W San Diego State 20 13
December 31, 2001 Peach Bowl W Auburn 16 10
December 30, 2004 Continental Tire Bowl L Boston College 24 37
Total 25 bowl games 12-13

Rivalries

North Carolina's traditional rivals are Duke, NC State, Virginia (the South's Oldest Rivalry), and Wake Forest. The Sugar Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a coeducational public research university located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. ... For the Cotton Bowl stadium, see Cotton Bowl (stadium). ... Lovett Hall William Marsh Rice University (commonly called Rice University and opened in 1912 as The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science and Art) is a private, comprehensive research university located in Houston, Texas, USA, near the Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. ... The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA or Air Force),[1] located immediately north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States, is an institution for the undergraduate education of officers for the United States Air Force. ... Arizona State University (ASU) is a public research institution of higher education and research with campuses located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. ... Texas Tech University is a nationally recognized doctoral/research university located in Lubbock, Texas, established in 1923 originally as Texas Technological College. ... Mississippi State University is a land-grant university located in north east-central Mississippi, United States, in the town of Starkville and is situated 125 miles (200 km) northeast of Jackson and 23 miles (37 km) west of Columbus. ... The University of Kentucky, also referred to as UK, is a public, co-educational university located in Lexington, Kentucky. ... For the stadium, see Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. ... Seal of the University of Nebraska The University of Nebraska is one of two public university systems in the state of Nebraska, USA. The system has four universities and a technical college: University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Nebraska at Omaha University of Nebraska at Kearney University of Nebraska Medical... Head coach Lloyd Carr 13th year, 121–40 Home stadium Michigan Stadium Capacity 107,501 - Field Turf Conference Big Ten First year 1879 Athletic director William C. Martin Website MGoBlue. ... Bluebonnet Bowl was an annual college football bowl game played in Houston, Texas. ... The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ... The University of Arkansas is a public co-educational land-grant university. ... The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ... Florida State University (commonly referred to as Florida State or FSU)[8] is a public research university located in Tallahassee. ... The Aloha Classic is a now_defunct National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I_A college football bowl game played in Honolulu, Hawaii at Aloha Stadium. ... The University of Arizona (UA or U of A) is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. ... Mississippi State University is a land-grant university located in north east-central Mississippi, United States, in the town of Starkville and is situated 125 miles (200 km) northeast of Jackson and 23 miles (37 km) west of Columbus. ... The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship school of the University of Alabama System. ... The Brut Sun Bowl is an annual college football bowl game that is played usually at the end of December in El Paso, Texas. ... The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ... is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... The University of Arkansas is a public co-educational land-grant university. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... West Virginia University is an institution of higher learning based in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. Other campuses include: West Virginia University at Parkersburg in Parkersburg; West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery; Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser; and a clinical campus for the Universitys... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... For the stadium, see Gator Bowl Stadium. ... This article or section should include material from Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... The Las Vegas Bowl is an NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually at 40,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1992. ... A landmark architecture featured in the school logo. ... This article is about the year. ... The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played in Atlanta, Georgia since December, 1968. ... Head coach Tommy Tuberville 9th year, 79–33 Home stadium Jordan-Hare Stadium Capacity 87,451 - Grass Conference SEC - Western First year 1892 Website AuburnTigers. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Continental Tire Bowl is an NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually at 73,367-seat Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, since 2002. ... For similarly-named academic institutions, see Education in Boston, MA. Boston College (BC) is a private university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, in the New England region of the United States. ... This article is about the rivalry between UVA and UNC. For the rivalry between Georgia and Auburn, see Deep Souths Oldest Rivalry. ...

College Football Hall of Famers

Retired Jerseys

Number Player
22 Charlie Justice
46 Bill Sutherland
49 Julius Peppers
50 Art Weiner
59 Andy Bershak
98 Lawrence Taylor
99 George Barclay

Individual Awards Winner

Julius Peppers - 2001
Julius Peppers - 2001

Tar Heels in the NFL

Pro Football Hall of Fame Inductees

Lawrence Taylor, LB, 1999 Charlie Justice was an American football player who played running back for the Washington Redskins in 1950, and from 1952 to 1954. ... Tailback, University of North Carolina, 1968-70 A two-time First Team All-Conference selection and two-time Conference Player of the Year Broke just about every rushing record possible. ... This article belongs in one or more categories. ... Lawrence Julius Taylor (born February 4, 1959, in Williamsburg, Virginia), commonly referred to as LT, is a retired Hall of Fame American football player. ... Charlie Justice was an American football player who played running back for the Washington Redskins in 1950, and from 1952 to 1954. ... Jack McCall (also known as Crooked Nose Jack) (born in the early 1850s in Jefferson County, Kentucky - died March 1, 1877 in Yankton, South Dakota) is the man who gained notoriety as a coward and a drunkard by shooting James Wild Bill Hickok in the back, to the point where... Julius Frazier Peppers (born January 18, 1980 in Wilson, North Carolina) is a professional American football player. ... This article belongs in one or more categories. ... Lawrence Julius Taylor (born February 4, 1959, in Williamsburg, Virginia), commonly referred to as LT, is a retired Hall of Fame American football player. ... The Chuck Bednarik Award, named for the College and Pro Football Hall of Famer, Chuck Bednarik is given annually to the College Defensive Football Player of the Year. ... Julius Frazier Peppers (born January 18, 1980 in Wilson, North Carolina) is a professional American football player. ... The 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season saw the hurricane winds blow again as the University of Miami, the team of the 80s, returned to form winning the national title. ... The Rotary Lombardi Award is awarded annually to the best college football lineman or linebacker. ... Julius Frazier Peppers (born January 18, 1980 in Wilson, North Carolina) is a professional American football player. ... The 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season saw the hurricane winds blow again as the University of Miami, the team of the 80s, returned to form winning the national title. ... Lawrence Julius Taylor (born February 4, 1959, in Williamsburg, Virginia), commonly referred to as LT, is a retired Hall of Fame American football player. ...

Current Players

AFC

NFC

References

  1. ^ New York Times, November 13, 2006

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