1924 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

American college football season

1924 North Carolina Tar Heels football

Conference| Southern Conference
Record| 4–5 (2–3 SoCon)
Head coach|

* Bob Fetzer & Bill Fetzer (4th season)

Captain| Pierce Matthews
Home stadium| Emerson Field

Seasons

<- 1923

1925 ->

1924 Southern Conference football standings

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Team | W |  | L |  | T |  |  | W |  | L |  | T
Alabama $  | 5  | - | 0  | - | 0 |  |  | 8  | - | 1  | - | 0
Florida | 2  | - | 0  | - | 1 |  |  | 6  | - | 2  | - | 2
Georgia | 5  | - | 1  | - | 0 |  |  | 7  | - | 3  | - | 0
Tulane | 4  | - | 1  | - | 0 |  |  | 8  | - | 1  | - | 0
Washington and Lee | 4  | - | 1  | - | 1 |  |  | 6  | - | 3  | - | 1
South Carolina | 3  | - | 2  | - | 0 |  |  | 7  | - | 3  | - | 0
Sewanee *  | 3  | - | 2  | - | 0 |  |  | 6  | - | 4  | - | 0
Mississippi A&M | 3  | - | 2  | - | 0 |  |  | 5  | - | 4  | - | 0
Virginia | 3  | - | 2  | - | 0 |  |  | 5  | - | 4  | - | 0
Georgia Tech | 3  | - | 2  | - | 1 |  |  | 5  | - | 3  | - | 1
Vanderbilt *  | 3  | - | 3  | - | 0 |  |  | 6  | - | 3  | - | 1
VPI | 2  | - | 2  | - | 3 |  |  | 4  | - | 2  | - | 3
VMI | 2  | - | 3  | - | 1 |  |  | 6  | - | 3  | - | 1
Kentucky | 2  | - | 3  | - | 0 |  |  | 4  | - | 5  | - | 0
North Carolina | 2  | - | 3  | - | 0 |  |  | 4  | - | 5  | - | 0
Auburn | 2  | - | 4  | - | 1 |  |  | 4  | - | 4  | - | 1
Maryland | 1  | - | 2  | - | 1 |  |  | 3  | - | 3  | - | 3
NC State | 1  | - | 4  | - | 1 |  |  | 2  | - | 4  | - | 2
LSU | 0  | - | 3  | - | 0 |  |  | 5  | - | 4  | - | 0
Ole Miss | 0  | - | 3  | - | 0 |  |  | 4  | - | 5  | - | 0
Clemson | 0  | - | 3  | - | 0 |  |  | 2  | - | 6  | - | 0
Tennessee | 0  | - | 4  | - | 0 |  |  | 3  | - | 5  | - | 0

* $ - Conference champion
* * – co-member of SIAA

The 1924 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 1924 college football season as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). The Tar Heels were led by head coaches Bob Fetzer and Bill Fetzer in their fourth season and finished with a record of four wins and five losses (4–5 overall, 2–3 in the SoCon).[1]

## Schedule

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Date| Time| Opponent| Site| Result| Attendance| Source

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September 27| | at Wake Forest*|

* Gore Field
* Wake Forest, NC (rivalry)

| L 6–7| | [2]
October 4| 3:00 p.m.[3]| at Yale*|

* Yale Bowl
* New Haven, CT

| L 0–27| 25,000| [4]
October 11| | Duke*|

* Emerson Field
* Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)

| W 6–0| 7,500[5]| [6]
October 16| 2:30 p.m.[7]| at NC State|

* Riddick Field
* Raleigh, NC (rivalry)

| W 10–0| 15,000[8]| [9]
October 25| | Maryland|

* Emerson Field
* Chapel Hill, NC

| L 0–6| | [10]
November 1| 2:30 p.m.[11]| South Carolina|

* Emerson Field
* Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)

| L 7–10| | [12]
November 8| 2:30 p.m.[13]| VMI|

* Emerson Field
* Chapel Hill, NC

| W 3–0| | [14]
November 15| 3:00 p.m.[15]| at Davidson*|

* Richardson Athletic Field
* Davidson, NC

| W 6–0| | [16]
November 27| 2:30 p.m.[17]| at Virginia|

* Lambeth Field
* Charlottesville, VA (rivalry)

| L 0–7| | [18]

* *Non-conference game
* All times are in Eastern time

## References

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1. ^ "1924 North Carolina Tar Heels Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 11, 2023.
2. ^ "Wake Forest downs Carolina". The News and Observer. September 28, 1924. Retrieved December 11, 2023 - via Newspapers.com.
3. ^ "The Yale Daily News 4 October 1924 — Yale Daily News Historical Archive".
4. ^ "Yale Wins Opening Day Game From Southerners, 27 to 0". The Hartford Courant. October 5, 1924. p. IV-1 - via Newspapers.com.
5. ^ "The Trinity Chronicle, vol. 20, no. 4 (Wednesday, October 15, 1924)".
6. ^ "Blue Devils unable to gain at crucial stages and lose to Carolina's Tar Heels 6–0". The Sunday Citizen. October 12, 1924. Retrieved December 11, 2023 - via Newspapers.com.
7. ^ "Technician, Vol. 5 No. 5, October 17, 1924 - technician-v5n5-1924-10-17 - NC State University Libraries' Rare and Unique Digital Collections | NC State University Libraries' Rare and Unique Digital Collections".
8. ^ "Technician, Vol. 5 No. 6, October 24, 1924 - technician-v5n6-1924-10-24 - NC State University Libraries' Rare and Unique Digital Collections | NC State University Libraries' Rare and Unique Digital Collections".
9. ^ "N.C. defeats State team at fair, 10–0". The Atlanta Journal. October 17, 1924. Retrieved December 11, 2023 - via Newspapers.com.
10. ^ "Maryland is victor over Carolina, 6 to 0". Richmond Times-Dispatch. October 26, 1924. Retrieved December 11, 2023 - via Newspapers.com.
11. ^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, November 01, 1924, Page 1, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
12. ^ "Gamecocks lick Tar Heels". Charlotte Daily Observer. November 2, 1924. Retrieved January 25, 2022 - via Newspapers.com.
13. ^ "Photo: 1924 VMI-UNC Scorecard - Tar Heel Times".
14. ^ "V.M.I. loses by field goal to Tarheels 3–0". Nashville Banner. November 9, 1924. Retrieved December 19, 2021 - via Newspapers.com.
15. ^ "The Davidsonian. (Davidson, N.C.) 1914-current, November 13, 1924, Page 5, Image 5 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
16. ^ "Tarheels win hard Davidson contest". Richmond Times-Dispatch. November 16, 1924. Retrieved September 4, 2022 - via Newspapers.com.
17. ^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, November 26, 1924, Image 1". November 26, 1924. p. 1.
18. ^ "North Carolina falls before Virginians by narrow margin of 7–0". Greensboro Daily News. November 28, 1924. Retrieved December 11, 2023 - via Newspapers.com.

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North Carolina Tar Heels football

Venues|

* Emerson Field (1916–1926)
* Kenan Memorial Stadium (1927–present)

Bowls & rivalries|

* Bowl games
* Duke: Victory Bell
* NC State
* South Carolina
* Virginia: South's Oldest Rivalry
* Wake Forest

Culture & lore|

* First forward pass
* Rameses
* The Marching Tar Heels
* 2010 football scandal
* 2011 academic-athletic scandal

People|

* Head coaches
* All-Americans
* NFL draftees
* Statistical leaders

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