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North Carolina Tar Heels football
Current season Current season
North Carolina Tar Heels interlocking blue logo.png UNC helmet.png
First season 1888
Athletic director Dick Baddour
Head coach Butch Davis
2nd year, 12–12
Home stadium Kenan Memorial Stadium
Stadium capacity 60,000
Stadium surface Bermuda Grass
Location Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Conference ACC
Division Coastal
All-time record 645–477–55 (.547)
Postseason bowl record 12–14
Conference titles 9
Consensus All-Americans 13
Current uniform
ACC-Uniform-UNC.PNG
Colors Carolina Blue and White            
Fight song Here Comes Carolina
Mascot Rameses
Marching band The Marching Tar Heels
Outfitter Nike
Rivals Virginia Cavaliers
N.C. State Wolfpack
Duke Blue Devils
Website TarHeelBlue.com

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 638 games for a winning percentage of .547, and has appeared in 26 bowl games.[1] The team's most recent bowl appearance came in the 2008 Meineke Car Care Bowl, in which they lost to the West Virginia Mountaineers 30–31. 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. ”

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, including Lawrence Taylor, Charlie Justice, Chris Hanburger, Ken Willard, Don McCauley, Jeff Saturday, Alge Crumpler, Willie Parker, Greg Ellis, Dré Bly and Julius Peppers.[citation needed]

On November 13, 2006, the program hired as head coach Butch Davis, former head coach of the Miami Hurricanes and Cleveland Browns. In addition, the school pledged that they would fund the football program to the same extent that their men's and women's basketball teams are funded.[citation needed]

On February 7, 2007, Davis and staff inked one of the top recruiting classes in North Carolina football history, earning recognition from Scout.com,[2] Rivals.com[3] and ESPN.com.[4]

Contents

Logos and uniforms

North Carolina's uniform combinations


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 T. 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 Bill Fetzer 5 30–12–4 .696
1926–33 Chuck Collins 8 38–31–9 .545
1934–35 Carl Snavely 2 - -
1936–41 Ray Wolf 6 38–17–3 .681
1942 Jim Tatum 1 5-2-2 .667
1943 Tom Young 1 6–3 .667
1944 Gene McEver 1 1–7–1 .167
1945–52 Carl Snavely 8 59–35–5 .621
1953–55 George Barclay 3 11–18–1 .383
1956–58 Jim Tatum 3 14–15–1 .483
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–Present Butch Davis 3 19–16 .535
1889–2009 33 coaches 113 645–477–55 .547
  • 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.

Conference affiliations[5]

  • 1888–1894: Independent
  • 1895–1921: Southern Conference Athletic Association
  • 1922–1952: Southern Conference
  • 1953–current: ACC

Championships

[6][7]

See also: List of Atlantic Coast Conference football champions
Year Conference Overall record Conference record
1895 SIAA 7-1-1 5-0
1922 Southern 9–1 5–1
1946 Southern 8–2–1 4–0–1
1949 Southern 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
  • 9 conference championships

Bowl record

North Carolina has played in 26 bowl games in its history and owns a 12–14 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 Classic 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
December 27, 2008 Meineke Car Care Bowl L West Virginia 30 31
  • 26 bowl games (overall record 12–14).

Retired jerseys

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

Individual award winners

Hall of Fame

College football[8]

Pro football[9]

  • Lawrence Taylor, LB, 1999

Current NFL players

AFC

NFC

References

  1. ^ http://football.stassen.com/cgi-bin/records/fetch-team.pl?team=North_Carolina
  2. ^ http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p=9&c=14&yr=2007
  3. ^ http://rivals100.rivals.com/TeamRank.asp?postype=0&sort=0&year=2007
  4. ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/football/news/story?id=2757802
  5. ^ http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/database/northcarolina_database.htm
  6. ^ http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/database/northcarolina_database.htm
  7. ^ http://football.stassen.com/cgi-bin/records/fetch-team.pl?team=North_Carolina
  8. ^ http://www.collegefootball.org/
  9. ^ http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/colleges.html
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