1926 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

1926 North Carolina Tar Heels football
Conference	Southern Conference
Record	4–5 (3–3 SoCon)
Head coach	Chuck Collins (1st season)
Captain	Manly Whisnant
Home stadium	Emerson Field
Seasons ←  1925 1927  →

1926 Southern Conference football standings

v t e	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

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25		at Wake Forest *	Gore Athletic Field Wake Forest, NC (rivalry)	L 0–13	8,000 [2]	[3]
October 2	3:30 p.m. [4]	at Tennessee	Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN	L 0–34		[5]
October 9	3:00 p.m. [6]	South Carolina	Emerson Field Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)	W 7–0		[7]
October 16	3:00 p.m. [8]	Duke *	Emerson Field Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)	W 6–0	5,000–7,500	[9] [10]
October 23	2:30 p.m. [11]	at Maryland	Byrd Stadium College Park, MD	L 6–14	3,500 [12]	[13]
October 30	2:30 p.m. [14]	NC State	Emerson Field Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)	W 12–0		[15]
November 6	3:00 p.m. [16]	VMI	Emerson Field Chapel Hill, NC	W 28–0	7,000	[17]
November 13		at Davidson *	Richardson Field Davidson, NC	L 0–10		[18]
November 25		at Virginia	Lambeth Field Charlottesville, VA (rivalry)	L 0–3	11,500–15,000	[19] [20]
*Non-conference game All times are in Eastern time

References

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