North Carolina Tar Heels football

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North Carolina Tar Heels
Founded: 1888
North Carolina Tar Heels athletic logo

University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Conference ACC
Coastal Division
Location Chapel Hill, NC
Head Coach Butch Davis (2nd year)
Home Stadium Kenan Memorial Stadium
(Capacity: 60,000)
Nickname Tar Heels
Colors Carolina Blue and White

             

Overall Record 650-470-55
Bowl Record 12-13
Conference Champions
1922, 1946, 1949, 1963, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1980
For information about the 2008 season, see 2008 North Carolina Tar Heels football team.

The North Carolina Tar Heels football team represents the University of North Carolina at 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 five conference championships, with the most recent title coming in 1980.

One very important contribution to the game of football by North Carolina is the modern use of the forward pass; they were the first college team to use the play in 1895. Bob Quincy notes in his 1973 book They Made the Bell Tower Chime:

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 Kenan Memorial Stadium on campus. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, AC/DC's "Hells Bells" is played and students hold up four fingers indicating the quarter.[citation needed]

While not consistently successful, 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.[citation needed]

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.

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, Dwight Jones, Greg Little, Mike Paulus, and Tydreke Powell.[citation needed]

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[edit] Head 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, North Carolina had no official head coach. Over those four seasons, the team went 8-9.
  • ‡ In 1890, the North Carolina did not field a team.

[edit] Conference affiliations

[edit] Championships

See also: List of Atlantic Coast Conference football champions
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
  • 8 conference championships.

[edit] Bowl record

North Carolina has played in 25 bowl games in its history and owns a 12-13 record in those games.

Date Bowl Name Result Opponent' PF PA
January 1, 1947 Sugar Bowl L Georgia 10 20
January 1, 1949 Sugar Bowl L Oklahoma 6 14
January 2, 1950 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, 1993 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, 1997 Gator Bowl W West Virginia 20 13
January 1, 1998 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
  • 25 bowl games (overall record 12–13).

[edit] Retired Jerseys

Number Player
22 Charlie Justice
46 Bill Sutherland
50 Art Weiner
59 Andy Bershak
99 George Barclay

[edit] Individual award winners

[edit] Hall of Fame

[edit] Colllege football

[edit] Pro football

  • Lawrence Taylor, LB, 1999

[edit] Current NFL players

[edit] AFC

[edit] NFC

[edit] References

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