North Carolina Tar Heels football
Current season
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
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 1 Logos and uniforms 2 Head coaches 3 Conference affiliations[5] 4 Championships 5 Bowl record 6 Retired jerseys 7 Individual award winners 8 Hall of Fame 8.1 College football[8] 8.2 Pro football[9] 9 Current NFL players 9.1 AFC 9.2 NFC 10 References

[edit] Logos and uniforms

[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	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.

[edit] Conference affiliations^[5]

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

[edit] Championships

^[6][7]

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

[edit] 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).

[edit] Retired jerseys

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

[edit] Individual award winners

• Chuck Bednarik Award: Julius Peppers (2001)
• Lombardi Award: Julius Peppers (2001)

[edit] Hall of Fame

[edit] College football^[8]

• Charlie Justice
• Don McCauley
• Art Weiner

[edit] Pro football^[9]

• Lawrence Taylor, LB, 1999

[edit] Current NFL players

[edit] AFC

• Sam Aiken, WR, New England Patriots
• Matt Baker, QB, Buffalo Bills
• Greg Ellis, LB/DE, Oakland Raiders
• Alge Crumpler, TE, Tennessee Titans
• Chase Page, DT, Miami Dolphins
• Willie Parker, RB, Pittsburgh Steelers
• Richard Quinn, TE, Denver Broncos
• Jeff Reed, K, Pittsburgh Steelers
• Jeff Saturday, C, Indianapolis Colts
• Brandon Tate, WR, New England Patriots
• David Thornton, LB, Tennessee Titans
• Greg Warren, LS, Pittsburgh Steelers
• Wallace Wright, WR, New York Jets

[edit] NFC

• Ethan Albright, LS, Washington Redskins
• Kentwan Balmer, DT, San Francisco 49ers
• Gerald Sensabaugh, S, Dallas Cowboys
• Madison Hedgecock, FB, New York Giants
• Garrett Reynolds, OT, Atlanta Falcons
• Cedrick Holt, CB, Washington Redskins
• Julius Peppers, DE, Carolina Panthers
• Ryan Sims, DT, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• Hakeem Nicks, WR, New York Giants
• Hilee Taylor, DE, Carolina Panthers
• Dré Bly, CB, San Francisco 49ers
• Ronald Curry, WR, St. Louis Rams
• Jason Brown, OG, St. Louis Rams
• Brooks Foster, WR, St. Louis Rams
• Jesse Holley, WR, Dallas Cowboys

[edit] References

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