1929 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

1929 North Carolina Tar Heels football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
Record9–1 (7–1 SoCon)
Head coach
CaptainRay Farris
Home stadiumKenan Memorial Stadium
Uniform
Seasons
← 1928
1930 →
1929 Southern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 10 Tulane $ 6 – 0 – 0 9 – 0 – 0
Tennessee 6 – 0 – 1 9 – 0 – 1
North Carolina 7 – 1 – 0 9 – 1 – 0
Florida 6 – 1 – 0 8 – 2 – 0
Vanderbilt 5 – 1 – 0 7 – 2 – 0
Kentucky 3 – 1 – 1 6 – 1 – 1
Georgia 4 – 2 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
VMI 4 – 2 – 0 8 – 2 – 0
Duke 2 – 1 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
LSU 3 – 2 – 0 6 – 3 – 0
Alabama 4 – 3 – 0 6 – 3 – 0
Clemson 3 – 3 – 0 8 – 3 – 0
VPI 2 – 3 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Georgia Tech 3 – 5 – 0 3 – 6 – 0
South Carolina 2 – 5 – 0 6 – 5 – 0
Virginia 1 – 3 – 2 4 – 3 – 2
Maryland 1 – 3 – 1 4 – 4 – 2
Washington and Lee 1 – 4 – 1 3 – 5 – 1
Ole Miss 0 – 4 – 2 1 – 6 – 2
Mississippi A&M 0 – 3 – 1 1 – 5 – 2
Sewanee 0 – 4 – 1 2 – 5 – 2
NC State 0 – 5 – 0 1 – 8 – 0
Auburn 0 – 7 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1929 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina (now known as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) during the 1929 college football season as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). The Tar Heels were led by head coach Chuck Collins in his fourth season and finished with a record of nine wins and one loss (9–1 overall, 7–1 in the SoCon). The team scored a total of 346 points.[1]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 282:30 p.m.[2]Wake Forest*
W 48–010,000[3]
October 52:30 p.m.[4]at Maryland
W 43–06,000[5]
October 113:30 p.m.[6]at Georgia Tech
W 18–725,000[7][8]
October 192:30 p.m.[9]Georgia
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
L 12–1924,000[10][11]
October 262:30 p.m.[12]VPI
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
W 38–138,000[13][14]
November 22:30 p.m.[15]NC State
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
W 32–0[16]
November 92:30 p.m.[17]at South Carolina
W 40–07,000[18]
November 162:30 p.m.[19]at Davidson*
W 26–67,000[20][21][22]
November 282:00 p.m.[23]Virginia
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
W 41–730,000[24][25]
December 72:00 p.m.[26]at Duke
W 48–713,000[27][28]

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References

  1. ^ The Blue Book of Sports: Sport Characters--past and Present. 1931. pp. 179–180.
  2. ^ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, September 28, 1929, Image 1". September 28, 1929. p. 1.
  3. ^ "North Carolina whips Wake Forest Deacons by 48 to 0". The Greenville News. September 29, 1929. Retrieved December 6, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, October 05, 1929, Image 1". October 5, 1929.
  5. ^ "Tar Heels beat Ole Line time". The Baltimore Sun. October 6, 1929. Retrieved December 6, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, October 11, 1929, Image 1". October 11, 1929. p. 1.
  7. ^ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, October 12, 1929, Image 1". October 12, 1929. p. 1.
  8. ^ "North Carolina scores astounding upset in defeating Tech, 18–7". Birmingham Age-Herald. October 12, 1929. Retrieved December 6, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, October 19, 1929, Image 1". October 19, 1929. p. 1.
  10. ^ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, October 20, 1929, Image 1". October 20, 1929. p. 1.
  11. ^ "North Carolina upset by Georgia, 19–12". The Knoxville Journal. October 20, 1929. Retrieved December 6, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, October 26, 1929, Image 3". October 26, 1929. p. 3.
  13. ^ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, October 27, 1929, Image 1". October 27, 1929. p. 1.
  14. ^ "Carolina Runs Roughshod Over V.P.I., 38-13". The Daily Tar Heel. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. October 27, 1929. p. 1. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  15. ^ "Technician, Vol. 10 No. 7, November 2, 1929 - technician-v10n7-1929-11-02 - NC State University Libraries' Rare and Unique Digital Collections | NC State University Libraries' Rare and Unique Digital Collections".
  16. ^ "Powerful Tar Heels whip N.C. State, 32–0". The Miami Herald. November 3, 1929. Retrieved May 19, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, November 09, 1929, Image 1". November 9, 1929. p. 1.
  18. ^ "Tar Heels defeat Gamecocks, 40–0". Asheville Citizen-Times. November 10, 1929. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, November 16, 1929, Image 1". November 16, 1929. p. 1.
  20. ^ "Football". The Charlotte News. Charlotte, North Carolina. November 10, 1929. p. 13. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  21. ^ Ison, Wade (November 17, 1929). "Parrish Hurls Scare Info N. C. With Long Run". The Charlotte News. Charlotte, North Carolina. p. 10. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  22. ^ Ison, Wade (November 17, 1929). "Parrish Hurls (continued)". The Charlotte News. Charlotte, North Carolina. p. 12. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  23. ^ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, November 28, 1929, Image 1". November 28, 1929. p. 1.
  24. ^ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, December 03, 1929, Image 3". December 3, 1929. p. 3.
  25. ^ "Carolina licks Virginia". The Charlotte Observer. November 29, 1929. Retrieved December 6, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ "The Duke Chronicle, vol. 26, no. 11 (Wednesday, December 4, 1929)".
  27. ^ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, December 08, 1929, Image 3". December 8, 1929. p. 3.
  28. ^ "N. Carolina crushes Duke for title, 48–7". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. December 8, 1929. Retrieved December 6, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  29. ^ "1929 North Carolina Tar Heels Schedule and Results | College Football at Sports-Reference.com". sports-reference.com. Retrieved August 24, 2015.


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