1937 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

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1937 North Carolina Tar Heels football
Conference Southern Conference
Ranking
APNo. 19
Record7–1–1 (4–0–1 SoCon)
Head coach
Captain Andy Bershak, Crowell Little
Home stadium Kenan Memorial Stadium
Seasons
  1936
1938  
1937 Southern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Maryland $ 2 0 08 2 0
No. 19 North Carolina 4 0 17 1 1
Clemson 2 0 14 4 1
No. 20 Duke 5 1 07 2 1
VMI 4 2 05 5 0
NC State 4 2 15 3 1
South Carolina 2 2 15 6 1
Washington and Lee 2 3 04 5 0
The Citadel 2 3 07 4 0
Richmond 2 3 05 4 1
Furman 1 2 24 3 2
VPI 2 4 05 5 0
William & Mary 1 3 04 5 0
Wake Forest 1 4 03 6 0
Davidson 1 6 02 8 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1937 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1937 college football season. The Tar Heels were led by second-year head coach Raymond Wolf and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. They competed as a member of the Southern Conference, finishing with an undefeated conference record of 4–0–1. North Carolina claims a conference championship for 1937, [1] although Maryland is recognized as the official conference champion with a 2–0 conference record. [2] On October 25, 1937, the Tar Heels made the school's first ever appearance in the AP Poll, which was in its second year of operation. The team finished ranked 19th in the final poll of the season.

Andy Bershak was a consensus All-American end for the Tar Heels. [3]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 252:30 p.m. [4] South Carolina T 13–1314,000 [5] [6]
October 22:30 p.m. [7] at NC State W 20–016,000 [8] [9]
October 92:30 p.m. [10] at NYU *W 19–614,000 [11] [12] [13]
October 162:30 p.m. [14] at Wake Forest W 28–010,000 [15] [16]
October 232:30 p.m. [17] Tulane *
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
W 13–021,000 [18] [19]
October 302:30 p.m. [20] No. 10 Fordham *No. 15
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
L 0–1424,000 [21] [22]
November 62:30 p.m. [23] at Davidson W 26–08,000 [24]
November 132:00 p.m. [25] at No. 8 Duke W 14–643,000 [26] [27]
November 252:00 p.m. [28] Virginia *No. 18
W 40–014,000 [29]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

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