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CAROLINA HISTORY Historical Essay 226-233 All-Americas 234-241 Charlie Justice Profile 242 Carolina & The National Awards 243 Honored Jerseys 244-245 All-ACC 246-247 1,000-Yard Tradition 248-249 Academic Honors 250 Bowl Game History, Bowl Game Recaps 251-263 Current NFL Player Bios 264-267 NFL Draft 268-270 All-Time Professional Roster 271-272 Carolina Lettermen 273-278 2002 CAROLINA FOOTBALL CAROLINA HISTORICAL ESSAY The University of North considered by most to be the first Carolina embarks on its 112th year of real football at UNC with season of football competition in a representative six-game sched- 2002. The Tar Heels do that with ule being played. That squad a history of gridiron greatness, also earned the distinction of including some of the top coach- being UNC’s first good team. es in the game, a lineage of tal- Mike Hoke acted as team captain ented running backs and one of and the entire squad consisted of the most beautiful and historic just 15 players, with UNC using facilities in college football. only one substitute the entire sea- Surprisingly, football is actual- son. The team opened the year ly not the oldest varsity sport at with a 40-0 rout of Richmond UNC. Baseball holds that honor, and after a loss to Virginia in the having fielded its first varsity next game, it went on to win its squad back in 1867. But while last four. Carolina’s 5-1 mark football started 21 years later in was the best record in the South 1888, its history is replete with that year. That season also memories that have thrilled marked the first year in which legions of Carolina fans as the University teams were referred to decades have elapsed. as "Carolina," with the appella- The first UNC team played but tions "University" and "Chapel two games, losing both and being Hill" being dropped from the outscored 22-4. That inauspi- popular vernacular. cious beginning belies the suc- A meeting in February 1893 cess of the program since then, signaled the start of the forma- but those football pioneers are tion of what would become the nevertheless credited with start- Southern Intercollegiate Athletic ing football at Carolina. Association in later years. Ten Johnny Branch was one of Carolina’s early stars. His 96-yard punt In the fall of 1888, the sopho- return in 1930 is still the longest in school history. schools, including UNC, were more class at UNC had formed a involved in the meeting and Dr. team and after vanquishing all record of 608-430-54, a winning 33-0 before a crowd of 500 in Venable was voted temporary the other classes at UNC, began percentage of .582. Carolina has Raleigh. UNC went on to post a chairman of the group. Later to look around for stiffer opposi- played in 24 bowl games in its 2-2 record that year and earn a that same year, on May 12, the tion. The UNC team challenged history and won five Southern share of the state championship UNC athletic association the Wake Forest squad to a game Conference championships and with Trinity and Wake Forest. approved the awarding of varsity which was scheduled during the five Atlantic Coast Conference After a Carolina player suf- letters for the first time. State Fair in Raleigh on October titles. fered a broken collarbone that Although the 1893 team man- 18, 1888. Wake won the game 6- Thirty Tar Heel players have fall, the University faculty voted aged only a 3-4 record, it did 4 in what came to be acknowl- been honored as first-team All- to discontinue the sport of foot- have the distinction of being the edged as the first intercollegiate Americas on 38 occasions. ball in January 1890 and first Southern team to play in football game in the history of Carolina had 32 All-Southern Carolina did not compete at all New York City as Carolina lost a the state of North Carolina. Conference selections when it the following fall. That is one of 34-0 decision to Lehigh on Later that same fall, Carolina played in that league until 1952 only three years since the start of November 25, 1893. A year challenged Trinity (now Duke) to and since joining the ACC in football in 1888 in which the Tar later, Carolina brought in Vernon a Thanksgiving Day contest in 1953, has had 164 first-team All- Heels have not fielded a team; K. Irvine from Princeton as Raleigh that drew a crowd of 600 ACC choices. play was also suspended during coach and he led Carolina to a 6- for a 16-0 Trinity triumph. One Just a few months after the loss World War I in 1917 and 1918. 3 mark, attesting to the fact that member of that 1888 UNC team to Trinity in 1888, UNC acquired The following year, students experienced coaching benefited was John Motley Morehead, who the services of Hector Cowan, petitioned to have football the team’s performance. That went on to great fame as the former great tackle and captain at restored at UNC and the ban was UNC team finished second in the founder of Union Carbide and Princeton, to help teach the UNC lifted with the help of Professors South and won the state champi- who endowed the Morehead players the fundamentals of the Horace Williams, F.P. Venable onship. It was also the first to be Scholarship program and several game. Cowan arrived in and Eban Alexander. At this forced to stage closed practices buildings on the Carolina cam- February 1889 and drilled the Tar time, athletic control passed from because of problems with crowd pus. Heel troops on the existing ath- the hands of students to the fac- control at open sessions. That first Carolina team’s letic field, located on the current ulty, a situation that still exists In 1895, T.C. "Doggie" results may not have been what site of Bynum Hall. today. Trenchard came from Princeton was expected, but the leaders of The 1889 team played two Football returned to UNC that to coach the Tar Heels and he led the ’88 team did get the ball games in the spring and two in fall with W.P. Graves as coach UNC to an outstanding 7-1-1 rolling. In Carolina’s first 111 the fall. On March 1, 1889, and UNC compiling an 0-2 season marred only by a loss to seasons of football competition, Carolina earned its first win in record. Virginia. A crowd of 12,000 was the Tar Heels have compiled a football as it routed Wake Forest The following year, 1892, is 226 • 2001 PEACH BOWL CHAMPIONS 2002 CAROLINA FOOTBALL going 4-3-1 under Coach Thomas 1921 meeting in Atlanta, the SIC J. Coleman. Carolina twice was formed with a 16-school broke its single game home membership. The conference attendance record that year as it agreed to bans on postseason won the state championship. The play, freshman eligibility and Tar Heels defeated N.C. State, athletic training tables, required 13-12, before a crowd of 7,500 eligibility forms for players and and then topped that with 9,000 disallowed organized practice for a 6-0 win over Virginia. That before September 10. game marked the first time the Carolina would go on to have Cavaliers had ever played in great success in the Southern Chapel Hill. Conference, tying for the league The 1920 campaign was a dis- crown in 1922 and winning it mal one as UNC went 2-6 and outright in 1934, 1937, 1946 and scored only 16 points in eight 1949. games. But a more positive era The Fetzers’greatest team was in North Carolina football began probably the 1922 edition which Kenan Memorial Stadium opened in 1927. The Tar Heels have won 240 games under the pines. a year later with the hiring of Bill posted an impressive 9-1 mark, and Bob Fetzer as co-head won the South Atlantic champi- coaches. Their hiring also onship and tied for the Southern on hand for the meeting between Warner, the brother of the famed marked a change in athletic poli- Conference crown. That team the Tar Heels and the Cavaliers "Pop" Warner. cy at UNC as the Fetzers were lost only to Yale, 18-0, and had in Richmond, which UVa won 6- Trenchard returned as assured of long-term positions three touchdowns called back by 0. Twice during the game spec- Carolina’s coach in 1913 for a instead of the usual one-year penalties in the game. The squad tators ran onto the field to block three-year run. His 1914 squad contracts. Carolina went 5-2-2 was ranked 11th in the nation by the path of Tar Heel runners who was outstanding. Sixty men under the Fetzers in 1921 and I.B. Thomas in the January 1923 had broken into the clear on reported for the team and UNC 10,000 filled Emerson Field for issue of Intercollegiate Athletics apparent touchdown runs. went on to win its first 10 before Carolina’s 7-3 win over Virginia. and played before a record Carolina began to gain some losing to Virginia 20-3 before a That year also marked the first 68,500 fans during the course of consistency in the sport of foot- record crowd of 15,000 in for UNC’s participation in the the campaign. ball with the arrival of Will A. Richmond. That UNC team Southern Intercollegiate The 1923 team was ravaged by Reynolds of Princeton as head outscored its opponents 359-52 Conference, the official name for injuries but limped to a 5-3-1 coach in 1897.