1926 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

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1926 North Carolina Tar Heels football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
Record4–5 (3–3 SoCon)
Head coach
CaptainManly Whisnant
Home stadiumEmerson Field
Seasons
← 1925
1927 →
1926 Southern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 7 Alabama $ 8 – 0 – 0 9 – 0 – 1
Tennessee 5 – 1 – 0 8 – 1 – 0
Vanderbilt 4 – 1 – 0 8 – 1 – 0
South Carolina 4 – 2 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
Georgia 4 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Virginia 4 – 2 – 1 6 – 2 – 2
VPI 3 – 2 – 1 5 – 3 – 1
Washington and Lee 3 – 2 – 1 4 – 3 – 2
Georgia Tech 4 – 3 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
North Carolina 3 – 3 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Auburn 3 – 3 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
LSU 3 – 3 – 0 6 – 3 – 0
Ole Miss 2 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Mississippi A&M 2 – 3 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
VMI 2 – 4 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Tulane 2 – 4 – 0 3 – 5 – 1
Maryland 1 – 3 – 1 5 – 4 – 1
Clemson 1 – 3 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
Florida 1 – 4 – 1 2 – 6 – 2
Kentucky 1 – 4 – 1 2 – 6 – 1
NC State 0 – 4 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
Sewanee 0 – 5 – 0 2 – 6 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1926 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 1926 college football season as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). The Tar Heels were led by head coach Chuck Collins in his first season and finished with a record of four wins and five losses (4–5 overall, 3–3 in the SoCon).[1]

Schedule[edit]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25at Wake Forest*
L 0–138,000[2][3]
October 23:30 p.m.[4]at Tennessee
L 0–34[5]
October 93:00 p.m.[6]South Carolina
W 7–0[7]
October 163:00 p.m.[8]Duke*
  • Emerson Field
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
W 6–05,000–7,500[9][10]
October 232:30 p.m.[11]at Maryland
L 6–143,500[12][13]
October 302:30 p.m.[14]NC State
  • Emerson Field
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
W 12–0[15]
November 63:00 p.m.[16]VMI
  • Emerson Field
  • Chapel Hill, NC
W 28–07,000[17]
November 13at Davidson*
L 0–10[18]
November 25at Virginia
L 0–311,500–15,000[19][20]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1926 North Carolina Tar Heels Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 10, 2023.
  2. ^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, September 28, 1926, Page 1, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
  3. ^ "Carolina suffers terrible defeat". The Charlotte News. September 26, 1926. Retrieved December 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "The Knoxville Journal from Knoxville, Tennessee on October 1, 1926 · 13 (newspapers.com)".
  5. ^ "Tar Heels humiliated by Volunteers, 34–0". Asheville Citizen-Times. October 3, 1926. Retrieved August 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, October 09, 1926, Page 1, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
  7. ^ "Tar Heels upset dope by 7–0 victory". The News and Observer. October 10, 1926. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "The Duke Chronicle, vol. 22, no. 4 (Wednesday, October 13, 1926)".
  9. ^ "Carolina defeats Duke in thrilling game six to nothing". Winston-Salem Journal. October 17, 1926. Retrieved December 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "The Duke Chronicle, vol. 22, no. 5 (Wednesday, October 20, 1926)".
  11. ^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, October 23, 1926, Page 1, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
  12. ^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, October 26, 1926, Page 1, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
  13. ^ "Maryland upsets Dope by trimming Tar Heels". Greensboro Sunday Record. October 24, 1926. Retrieved December 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, October 30, 1926, Page 1, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
  15. ^ "Tar Heels trim State". The News and Observer. October 31, 1926. Retrieved December 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, November 06, 1926, Page 1, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
  17. ^ "Carolina defeats V.M.I." The News and Observer. November 7, 1926. Retrieved December 19, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Dopesters given shock as Davidson beats N. Carolina". Daily Press. November 14, 1926. Retrieved September 4, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "Virginia downs Tar Heel eleven by close margin". The Morning News Review. November 26, 1926. Retrieved December 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "The Cleveland Star. (Shelby, N.C.) 189?-1936, November 26, 1926, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
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