1944 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

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1944 North Carolina Tar Heels football
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Conference Southern Conference
Record1–7–1 (0–3–1 SoCon)
Head coach
CaptainBobby Weant
Home stadium Kenan Memorial Stadium
Seasons
←  1943
1945  →
1944 Southern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 11 Duke $ 4 –0 –06 –4 –0
Wake Forest 6 –1 –08 –1 –0
Clemson 3 –1 –04 –5 –0
NC State 3 –1 –07 –2 –0
William & Mary 2 –1 –15 –2 –1
Maryland 1 –1 –01 –7 –1
South Carolina 1 –3 –03 –4 –2
VMI 1 –5 –01 –8 –0
North Carolina 0 –3 –11 –7 –1
Richmond 0 –4 –02 –6 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1944 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1944 college football season. The Tar Heels were led by first-year head coach Gene McEver and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. They competed as a member of the Southern Conference.

Contents

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 233:00 p.m. [1] Wake Forest
L 0–713,000 [2] [3]
September 302:45 p.m. [4] at Army *
L 0–467,000 [5] [6]
October 73:00 p.m. [7] at Georgia Tech *
L 0–2815,000 [8] [9]
October 143:00 p.m. Cherry Point Marines *
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
W 20–147,500 [10] [11] [12]
November 42:30 p.m. [13] South Carolina
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
L 0–6 [14]
November 112:30 p.m. [15] William & Mary
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
T 0–03,000 [16] [17]
November 182:30 p.m. [18] at No. 20 Yale *
L 6–1310,000 [19] [20]
November 252:00 p.m. [21] No. 11 Duke
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
L 0–3325,000 [22] [23]
December 22:30 p.m. [24] vs. Virginia *
L 7–268,000 [25] [26]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

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