Aug. 8, 1999
Year-by-Year:
1910: A.E. Bridges' last team finished 3-6 despite outscoring the opposition 70-67...
Carolina was 2-2 with wins over VMI (6-0) and Wake Forest (37-0) before dropping
four of its last five games. The other win was 27-6 over South Carolina, while Virginia
ended the Heels' season with a 7-0 win in Richmond...
All six losses were by shutouts, while UNC won each game in which it scored.
1911: Branch Bocock coached his only season and had a highly successful 6-1-1 team...
Following a season-opening 12-3 win over Wake Forest, UNC shut out its next six opponents,
beating five of them to go with a 0-0 tie against Virginia Tech. The 6-0-1 Heels had given
up just three points all season going into the season finale against Virginia, but the
Cavaliers took an easy 28-0 win at Richmond.
1912: William C. Martin's only squad finished 3-4-1...
The Heels started out with wins over Davidson (13-0), Wake Forest (9-2) and
ingham's School (47-0)
before suffering four losses and a tie in the last five games to finish 3-4-1...
ill Tillet returned a punt 70 yards for a TD in the 9-2 win over Wake Forest...
Martin's last game was a nightmare, a 66-0 loss to Virginia at Richmond, UNC's
worst-ever loss to the Cavaliers.
1913: T.C. Trenchard returned to the Tar Heel helm for a 3-year stint. This
year's team started fast but faded as the season wore on...
Carolina opened with four straight wins, the first three by shutouts, but promptly lost
to Virginia Tech, Georgia and Washington & Lee. UNC then topped Wake Forest 29-0 in
a game played, oddly, in Durham. Virginia again won the season-ender, this time 26-7.
Walter Fuller scored the Heels' only TD on a 70-yard interception return...
Four of Carolina's five wins were by shutouts.
1914: The Tar Heels had a fabulous 10-1 season that was marred only by a
season-ending loss to Virginia...In their first six games the Heels outscored their opponents
288-6, an average score of 48-1.
The seventh game, a 10-9 win at Vanderbilt, was the first close game of the
season. Easy wins over Davidson and VMI, followed by a 12-7 victory over Wake Forest, gave
UNC a 10-0 record going into the UVA game. The Thanksgiving Day game in Richmond was
played before a record crowd of 15,000, with
the Cavaliers taking a 20-3 win...Carolina outscored its opponents 359-52 for
the entire season...Robert Winston returned a kickoff 85 yards for a TD in a 30-7 win
over VMI.
1915: Trenchard's final team finished with a 4-3-1 mark...
UNC won its first two games,
both at home and the only home games of the season,
beating The Citadel 14-7 and Wake Forest 35-0.
Team Captain David Tayloe returned a kickoff 90 yards against Wake but did not score
on the play. UNC went 2-3-1 over its last five games.
Virginia's 14-0 win on Thanksgiving marked
the sixth straight year the Wahoos topped the Heels in the season's final game. UVA
outscored UNC 161-10 in those six games...Giles Long had a 70-yard punt return for a
score in a 41-6 win over Davidson...This was the last year UNC would play on the
University Athletic Field. Carolina had a phenomenal 58-1-3 record on
its first home football field.
1916: With Europe in turmoil,
Carolina began its season with a new coach and a new home field. Thomas J.
Campbell was the coach, and Carolina began play on Emerson Field. Carolina
would finish 5-4 in the last season before World War I...
UNC topped Wake Forest 20-0 in the season-opener,
the first game played on Emerson Field.
The Heels then headed north and lost 29-0 at Princeton and 21-0 at Harvard, before
losing 10-6 at Georgia Tech. The Tar Heels rallied with wins in four of their last
five games. A 46-0 win over Furman
was highlighted by a pair of long scoring plays.
W.C. Jennette returned a punt 70 yards, while Nemo Coleman returned an interception
50 yards to pay-dirt...
Carolina's 7-0 win over Virginia to end the season snapped an eight game
losing streak to the Cavaliers. UNC's last win over Virginia had been a 17-0 win on
Nov. 30, 1905...
The United State's entry into World War I would force
cancellation of the next two seasons...
Emerson Field, located where the Davis Library now stands and
literally in the shadow of the Bell Tower, was a big step up
from the old University Athletic Field. Emerson Field was used for both baseball and
football, and baseball would be played there until the move to Boshamer
Stadium in the late 1960s. To visualize Emerson Field, imagine you are standing at
home plate, looking out over the field. Parallel to the right field foul line, which
goes due west, are concrete bleachers similar to those found at Fetzer Field.
If you look over the second baseman's head you're looking directly at the
ell Tower.
ehind the center field fence is a beautful cluster of dogwood trees.
When you look out to left field you see the woods on the other side of Raleigh
Road, where Fetzer Gym now stands.
The football field ran east-to-west parallel to the stands, with the west end zone
being roughly where Greenlaw hall is located. Since bleachers were located
only on the north side of the football field,
spectators would ring the stadium
for most games, with attendance figures far surpassing stadium capacity.
Emerson Field was a fun and unique spot to watch Tar Heel football and baseball.
1917: No team due to World War I.
1918: No team due to World War I.
1919: The Tar Heels resumed play following a two-year hiatus due to World War I and
finished 4-3-1 under Coach Campbell...
Carolina took the train north to start the season and dropped games at Rutgers 19-0 and
Yale 34-7...UNC came home and beat Wake Forest 6-0,
then downed N.C. State 13-12 before
7,500 at Emerson Field. Carolina had not played State (formerly N.C. A&M) since 1905.
The teams have played every year since except for the World War II era and 1952, when
a polio outbreak forced cancellation of the game...
A scoreless tie with Tennessee was followed by a 29-7 loss at VMI. Carolina then ended the
season in fine fashion. A 10-0 win over Davidson put the Heels at 3-3-1 entering the
season-ending game with Virginia. There was one big difference about this year's game.
For the first time ever, the Cavaliers came to Chapel Hill to play. A record 9,000
fans watched the Heels take a 6-0 win, making for a very festive Thanksgiving Day on
the UNC campus.
Notable: The Tar Heels wore numbers on their jerseys for the first time in 1914. This
was the first time this had occured in the South...T.C. Trenchard started the first athletic
training table at UNC in 1915, feeding the 56-man squad at his home on a regular basis...
1916 was the first year that freshmen were banned from varsity competition...Every member of
Carolina's 1916 squad entered military service.
The Decade By the Numbers:
Overall Record: 40-26-4
Home: 20-0-1
Away: 3-11-1
Neutral: 17-15-2
Longest Unbeaten Streak: 10 (Sept. 26, 1914 - Nov. 14, 1914)
Longest Losing Streak: 3 (Oct. 29, 1910 - Nov. 12, 1910) &
(Oct. 25, 1913 - Nov. 8, 1913)
(Oct. 7, 1916 - Oct. 26, 1916)
Most Points Scored (Game): 65 in 1914. UNC 65 - Virginia Medical 0
Least Points Scored (Game): None 18 times
Most Points Scored (Season): 359 in 1914
Least Points Scored (Season): 49 in 1919
Most Points Allowed (Game): 66 in 1912. UVA 66 - UNC 0
Least Points Allowed (Game): None 27 times
Most Points Allowed (Season): 168 in 1912
Least Points Allowed (Season): 31 in 1911
1910 (3-6)
Coach: A.E. Bridges
Captain: Earl Thompson
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Oct 1 VMI W, 6-0
Oct 8 @ Kentucky L, 0-11
Oct 15 v Davidson L, 0-6
Oct 22 Wake Forest W, 37-0
Oct 29 @ Georgetown L, 0-12
Nov 5 v Virginia Tech L, 0-20
Nov 12 v Washington & Lee L, 0-5
Nov 19 v South Carolina W, 27-6
Nov 24 v Virginia L, 0-7
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70-67
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1911 (6-1-1)
Coach: Branch Bocock
Captain: Bob Winston
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Oct 7 Wake Forest W, 12-3
Oct 14 Bingham's School W, 12-0
Oct 19 v Davidson W, 5-0
Oct 28 U.S.S. Franklin W, 12-0
Nov 4 v Virginia Tech T, 0-0
Nov 11 South Carolina W, 21-0
Nov 18 v Washington & Lee W, 4-0
Nov 30 v Virginia L, 0-28
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66-31
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1912 (3-4-1)
Coach: William C. Martin
Captain: William Tillett
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Oct 5 v Davidson W, 13-0
Oct 12 Wake Forest W, 9-2
Oct 19 Bingham's School W, 47-0
Oct 26 v Virginia Tech L, 0-26
Nov 2 v Georgetown L, 10-37
Nov 9 South Carolina T, 6-6
Nov 16 v Washington & Lee L, 0-31
Nov 26 v Virginia L, 0-66
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85-168
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1913 (5-4)
Coach: T.C. Trenchard
Captain: L.L. Abernethy
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Sep 27 Wake Forest W, 7-0
Oct 4 Virginia Medical W, 15-0
Oct 11 v Davidson W, 7-0
Oct 18 @ South Carolina W, 13-3
Oct 25 v Virginia Tech L, 7-14
Nov 1 @ Georgia L, 6-19
Nov 8 v Washington & Lee L, 0-14
Nov 15 v Wake Forest W, 29-0
Nov 27 v Virginia L, 7-26
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91-76
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1914 (10-1)
Coach: T.C. Trenchard
Captain: Dave Tayloe
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Sep 26 Richmond W, 41-0
Oct 3 Virginia Medical W, 65-0
Oct 8 v Wake Forest W, 53-0
Oct 12 South Carolina W, 48-0
Oct 17 v Georgia W, 41-6
Oct 20 v Riverside Academy W, 40-0
Oct 24 @ Vanderbilt W, 10-9
Oct 31 v Davidson W, 16-3
Nov 7 v VMI W, 30-7
Nov 14 v Wake Forest W, 12-7
Nov 26 v Richmond L, 3-20
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359-52
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1915 (4-3-1)
Coach: T.C. Trenchard
Captain: Dave Tayloe
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Oct 2 The Citadel W, 14-7
Oct 9 Wake Forest W, 35-0
Oct 16 @ Georgetown L, 0-38
Oct 23 v VMI T, 3-3
Oct 30 @ Georgia Tech L, 3-23
Nov 6 v Clemson W, 9-7
Nov 13 v Davidson W, 41-6
Nov 25 v Virginia L, 0-14
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105-98
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1916 (5-4)
Coach: Thomas J. Campbell
Captain: George Tandy
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Sep 30 Wake Forest W, 20-0
Oct 7 @ Princeton L, 0-29
Oct 14 @ Harvard L, 0-21
Oct 21 @ Georgia Tech L, 6-10
Oct 28 VMI W, 38-13
Nov 4 v Virginia Tech L, 7-14
Nov 11 v Davidson W, 10-6
Nov 18 Furman W, 46-0
Nov 30 v Virginia W, 7-0
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134-93
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1917 - No team due to World War I.
1918 - No team due to World War I.
1919 (4-3-1)
Coach: Thomas J. Campbell
Captain: J.M. Coleman
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Oct 4 @ Rutgers L, 0-19
Oct 11 @ Yale L, 7-34
Oct 18 Wake Forest W, 6-0
Oct 23 @ N.C. State W, 13-12
Nov 1 @ Tennessee T, 0-0
Nov 8 @ VMI L, 7-29
Nov 15 v Davidson W, 10-0
Nov 27 Virginia W, 6-0
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49-94
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