1924 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

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1924 North Carolina Tar Heels football
Conference Southern Conference
Record4–5 (2–3 SoCon)
Head coach
CaptainPierce Matthews
Home stadium Emerson Field
Seasons
  1923
1925  
1924 Southern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Alabama $ 5 0 08 1 0
Florida 2 0 16 2 2
Georgia 5 1 07 3 0
Tulane 4 1 08 1 0
Washington and Lee 4 1 16 3 1
South Carolina 3 2 07 3 0
Sewanee * 3 2 06 4 0
Mississippi A&M 3 2 05 4 0
Virginia 3 2 05 4 0
Georgia Tech 3 2 15 3 1
Vanderbilt * 3 3 06 3 1
VPI 2 2 34 2 3
VMI 2 3 16 3 1
Kentucky 2 3 04 5 0
North Carolina 2 3 04 5 0
Auburn 2 4 14 4 1
Maryland 1 2 13 3 3
NC State 1 4 12 4 2
LSU 0 3 05 4 0
Ole Miss 0 3 04 5 0
Clemson 0 3 02 6 0
Tennessee 0 4 03 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

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27at Wake Forest *L 6–7 [2]
October 43:00 p.m. [3] at Yale *L 0–2725,000 [4]
October 11 Duke *W 6–07,500 [5] [6]
October 162:30 p.m. [7] at NC State W 10–015,000 [8] [9]
October 25 Maryland
  • Emerson Field
  • Chapel Hill, NC
L 0–6 [10]
November 12:30 p.m. [11] South Carolina
  • Emerson Field
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
L 7–10 [12]
November 82:30 p.m. [13] VMI
  • Emerson Field
  • Chapel Hill, NC
W 3–0 [14]
November 153:00 p.m. [15] at Davidson *W 6–0 [16]
November 272:30 p.m. [17] at Virginia L 0–7 [18]

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