1950 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

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1950 North Carolina Tar Heels football
Conference Southern Conference
Record3–5–2 (3–2–1 SoCon)
Head coach
CaptainDick Bunting, Irv Holdash
Home stadium Kenan Memorial Stadium
Seasons
  1949
1951  
1950 Southern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 18 Washington and Lee $ 6 0 08 3 0
No. 10 Clemson 3 0 19 0 1
VMI 5 1 06 4 0
Wake Forest 6 1 16 1 2
Maryland 4 1 17 2 1
Duke 5 2 07 3 0
North Carolina 3 2 13 5 2
George Washington 4 3 05 4 0
NC State 4 4 15 4 1
William & Mary 3 3 04 7 0
The Citadel 2 3 04 6 0
South Carolina 2 4 13 4 2
Furman 2 4 02 8 1
West Virginia 1 3 02 8 0
Davidson 1 5 03 6 0
Richmond 1 8 02 8 0
VPI 0 8 00 10 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1950 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1950 college football season. The Tar Heels were led by eighth-year head coach Carl Snavely, and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. The team competed as a member of the Southern Conference.

Center and linebacker Irv Holdash was named a first-team All-American by the All-America Board and Associated Press. [1]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 232:30 p.m. NC State No. 20W 13–740,000 [2]
September 302:00 p.m.at No. 1 Notre Dame *No. 20L 7–1456,430 [3]
October 72:30 p.m.at Georgia *No. 11T 0–040,000 [4]
October 142:00 p.m. Wake Forest
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
L 7–1343,500 [5]
October 282:00 p.m. William & Mary Dagger-14-plain.png
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
W 40–732,000 [6]
November 42:00 p.m.at No. 11 Tennessee *L 0–1638,000 [7]
November 112:00 p.m.No. 18 Maryland
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
T 7–732,000 [8]
November 182:00 p.m.at South Carolina W 14–725,000 [9]
November 252:00 p.m. Duke
L 0–740,000 [10]
December 22:00 p.m.at Virginia *L 13–4429,000–30,000 [11] [12]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

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