Roy Homewood

Roy Homewood

Homewood c. 1916
Biographical details
Alma mater University of North Carolina
Playing career
1914-16 North Carolina
Position(s) End
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1919 North Carolina (assistant)
Accomplishments and honors

Awards

2x All-Southern (1914, 1915)

Roy M. Homewood was a college football player and coach.

University of North Carolina

Homewood was a prominent end for the North Carolina Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina.[1][2][3] He was selected for an all-time Carolina football team in 1934.[4] He was selected All-Southern in 1915.[5] He also played on the baseball and track teams. In 1919 he helped coach the ends on the Tar Heel football teams.[6][7] One Dr. R. B. Lawson picked Homewood as an end on his all-time North Carolina football team.[8]

World War 1

He achieved a lieutenancy during the First World War.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Parke H. Davis. "National Stars of the Gridiron". St. Nicholas:An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 43: 58.
  2. ↑ "Logan Cunningham Shaping Backfield". Richmond Times-Dispatch. November 19, 1914.
  3. ↑ "The Thanksgiving Day Game". Carolina Alumni Review: 73.
  4. ↑ "All-Time Carolina Football Team Selected". Carolina Alumni Review 22 (6): 168. March 1934.
  5. ↑ Dick Jemison (November 30, 1915). "Composite All-Southern Of Ten Of The Dopesters". Atlanta Constitution.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "N. MAJORITY SAW OVERSEAS DUTY". The Daily Tar Heel. November 27, 1919.
  7. ↑ "Hard Practice At Football". Carolina Alumni Review 8 (1): 8. October 1919.
  8. ↑ "'All-Time' UNC Teams Compared". Carolina Alumni Review: 14. December 1969.