1938 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

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1938 North Carolina Tar Heels football
Conference Southern Conference
Record6–2–1 (4–1 SoCon)
Head coach
Captain Steve Maronic, George Watson
Home stadium Kenan Memorial Stadium
Seasons
←  1937
1939  →
1938 Southern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 3 Duke $ 5 –0 –09 –1 –0
Clemson 3 –0 –17 –1 –1
VMI 4 –0 –36 –1 –4
North Carolina 4 –1 –06 –2 –1
Richmond 3 –2 –16 –3 –1
Washington and Lee 2 –2 –04 –4 –1
NC State 3 –3 –13 –7 –1
South Carolina 2 –2 –06 –4 –1
Wake Forest 3 –4 –14 –5 –1
VPI 2 –3 –23 –5 –2
The Citadel 2 –3 –06 –5 –0
Maryland 1 –2 –02 –7 –0
Davidson 2 –6 –04 –6 –0
Furman 0 –4 –12 –7 –1
William & Mary 0 –4 –03 –7 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1938 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1938 college football season. The Tar Heels were led by third-year head coach Raymond Wolf and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. They competed as a member of the Southern Conference.

Team co-captain and tackle Steve Maronic was selected as a first-team All-American by the Central Press Association, and a second-team All-American by Newsweek, NEA, and United Press. [1]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 242:30 p.m. [2] Wake Forest
W 14–615,000 [3]
October 12:30 p.m. [4] at NC State
W 21–019,000 [5]
October 82:00 p.m. [6] Tulane *
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
L 14–1722,000 [7]
October 152:00 p.m. [8] at NYU *
W 7–015,000 [9]
October 222:00 p.m. [10] at Davidson No. 19
W 34–06,500 [11] [12]
October 292:00 p.m. [13] No. 11 Duke
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
L 0–1435,000
November 52:00 p.m [14] VPI
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
W 7–018,000 [15]
November 122:00 p.m. [16] at No. 13 Fordham *
T 0–021,000 [17]
November 242:00 p.m. [18] at Virginia *
W 20–07,500 [19]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

[20]

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  2. ↑ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, September 24, 1938, Image 1". 24 September 1938. p. 1.
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  7. ↑ "Tulane trips Carolina, 17 to 14". Asheville Citizen-Times. October 9, 1938. Retrieved April 10, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, October 15, 1938, Image 1". 15 October 1938. p. 1.
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  11. ↑ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, October 23, 1938, Image 1". 23 October 1938. p. 1.
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  13. ↑ "CONTENTdm".
  14. ↑ "Virginia Tech Invades Chapel Hill Today". The Daily Tar Heel . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. November 5, 1938. p. 1. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
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  17. ↑ "The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York on November 13, 1938 · Page 1".
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