Ray Farris

Ray Farris
Biographical details
Alma mater University of North Carolina
Playing career
1927–1929 North Carolina Tar Heels
Position(s) Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1930 North Carolina Tar Heels (freshman)
Accomplishments and honors

Awards

All-Southern (1929)
third-team All-American (1929)

Ray Farris was a college football player.

University of North Carolina

Farris was a prominent guard for the North Carolina Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina. He was known as a multi-threat guard because he could also do the work of a back.[1][2] One Dr. R. B. Lawson picked Farris as a guard on his all-time North Carolina football team.[3][4]

1929

He was captain and All-Southern in 1929.[5][6] The 1929 team scored a record 346 points.[6] Farris was also selected as a third-team All-American.[7] The 1929 season was seen as a great turnaround for the UNC football team, led by the "hell-for-leather guard" Farris.[8]

1930

In 1930 he coached the school's freshman team.[1]

Politics

Also in 1930 he "jumped from college to politics" as an organizer for the state young people's democratic organization.[9]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Southern Star Will Coach". Evening Huronite. July 23, 1930.
  2. ↑ "Ray Farris Named On All-American Teams". The Daily Tar Heel. December 10, 1929. p. 3.
  3. ↑ "'All-Time' UNC Teams Compared". Carolina Alumni Review: 14. December 1969.
  4. ↑ "All-Time Carolina Football Team Selected". Carolina Alumni Review 22 (6): 168. March 1934.
  5. ↑ "Tulane, Alabama, Vandy, and Tennessee Win Two Positions On Honor Team". The Bee. December 4, 1929.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Blue Book of Sports: Sport Characters--past and Present. 1931. pp. 179–180.
  7. ↑ Alan Gould (AP Sports Editor) (1929-12-07). "Three Big Ten Players on A.P. All-American Team: Carideo and Cannon Land Honor Posts". The News-Palladium (Michigan).
  8. ↑ "A History of NC Football". University of North Carolina Blue Book For Press and Radio: 17. 1964.
  9. ↑ "Short Sports". Appleton Post Crescent. July 4, 1930.