1928 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

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1928 North Carolina Tar Heels football
Conference Southern Conference
Record5–3–2 (2–2–2 SoCon)
Head coach
Captain Harry Schwartz
Home stadium Kenan Memorial Stadium
Seasons
  1927
1929  
1928 Southern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 3 Georgia Tech $ 7 0 010 0 0
Tennessee 6 0 19 0 1
Florida 6 1 08 1 0
VPI 4 1 07 2 0
Alabama 6 2 06 3 0
LSU 3 1 16 2 1
Clemson 4 2 08 3 0
Vanderbilt 4 2 08 2 0
Tulane 3 3 16 3 1
Ole Miss 3 3 05 4 0
North Carolina 2 2 25 3 2
Kentucky 2 2 14 3 1
South Carolina 2 2 16 2 2
Maryland 2 3 16 3 1
VMI 2 3 15 3 2
Georgia 2 4 04 5 0
NC State 1 3 14 5 1
Mississippi A&M 1 4 02 4 2
Virginia 1 6 02 6 1
Washington and Lee 1 6 02 8 0
Sewanee 0 5 02 7 0
Auburn 0 7 01 8 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1928 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 1928 college football season as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). The Tar Heels were led by head coach Chuck Collins in his third season and finished with a record of five wins, three losses, and two ties (5–3–2 overall, 2–2–2 in the SoCon). [1]

Contents

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 293:00 p.m. [2] Wake Forest *W 65–015,000 [3]
October 62:30 p.m. [4] at Maryland W 26–19 [5]
October 132:30 p.m. [6] at Harvard *L 0–20 [7]
October 203:00 p.m. [8] VPI
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
L 14–169,000 [9]
October 272:30 p.m. [10] Georgia Tech
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
L 7–2020,000 [11] [12]
November 32:30 p.m. [13] at NC State T 6–610,000 [14] [15]
November 102:30 p.m. [16] South Carolina
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
T 0–0 [17]
November 172:30 p.m. [18] at Davidson *W 30–77,000 [19]
November 292:30 p.m. [20] at Virginia W 24–2018,000-20,000 [21]
December 82:00 p.m. [22] Duke *
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
W 14–710,000 [23]

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Citations

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