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Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference |
Record | 6–4 (4–3 ACC) |
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Home stadium | Kenan Memorial Stadium |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 12 Clemson $ | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 15 South Carolina | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Duke | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North Carolina | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maryland | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wake Forest | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NC State | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Virginia | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1958 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1958 college football season. The Tar Heels were led by fourth-year head coach Jim Tatum and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. The team competed as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in fourth.
Two-way end Al Goldstein was named a first-team All-American by the Football Writers Association of America and the NEA. [2]
This was Tatum's last year as head coach, as he unexpectedly died at age 46 of a typhus-like illness in July 1959. [3] [4] He had a record of 19–17–3 at UNC. [5]
Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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September 20 | 2:00 p.m. | NC State | No. 10 | L 14–21 | 41,000 | [6] | |
September 27 | 2:00 p.m. | at Clemson | L 21–26 | 40,000 | [7] | ||
October 3 | 11:15 p.m. | at USC * | W 8–7 | 43,238 | [8] | ||
October 11 | 2:00 p.m. | South Carolina |
| W 6–0 | 26,000 | [9] | |
October 18 | 2:00 p.m. | Maryland ![]() |
| W 27–0 | 25,000 | [10] | |
October 25 | 2:00 p.m. | Wake Forest |
| W 26–7 | 33,000 | [11] | |
November 1 | 2:00 p.m. | at Tennessee * | No. 17 | W 21–7 | 25,290 | [12] | |
November 8 | 1:30 p.m. | at Virginia | No. 15 | W 42–0 | 18,000 | [13] | |
November 15 | 2:00 p.m. | at Notre Dame * | No. 11 | L 24–34 | 56,839 | [14] | |
November 22 | 2:00 p.m. | Duke | No. 17 |
| L 6–7 | 44,500 | [15] |
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