1959 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

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1959 North Carolina Tar Heels football
Conference Atlantic Coast Conference
Record5–5 (5–2 ACC)
Head coach
CaptainJack Cummings, Wade Smith
Home stadium Kenan Memorial Stadium
Seasons
←  1958
1960  →
1959 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 11 Clemson $ 6 –1 –09 –2 –0
North Carolina 5 –2 –05 –5 –0
Maryland 4 –2 –05 –5 –0
South Carolina 4 –3 –06 –4 –0
Wake Forest 4 –3 –06 –4 –0
Duke 2 –3 –04 –6 –0
NC State 0 –6 –01 –9 –0
Virginia 0 –5 –00 –10 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1959 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1959 NCAA University Division football season. The Tar Heels were led by first-year head coach Jim Hickey and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. The team competed as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in second.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 192:00 p.m. [1] No. 18 Clemson No. 12
L 18–2043,000 [2]
September 262:30 p.m. [3] at Notre Dame *
L 8–2856,746 [4]
October 32:00 p.m. [5] NC State
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
W 20–12
October 102:00 p.m. [6] No. 11 South Carolina
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
W 19–629,000 [7]
October 171:30 p.m. [8] at Maryland
L 7–14
October 242:00 p.m. [9] at Wake Forest
W 21–1919,000 [10]
October 312:00 p.m. [11] No. 20 Tennessee *
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
L 7–2930,000 [12] [13]
November 68:15 p.m. [14] at Miami (FL) *
L 7–1431,000 [15]
November 142:00 p.m. [16] Virginia
W 41–021,000
November 261:45 p.m. [17] at Duke
W 50–033,000
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

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References

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  12. ↑ "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, November 01, 1959, Image 1". November 1959. p. 1.
  13. ↑ "Vols humiliate Tar Heels, 29–7". The Montgomery Advertiser. November 1, 1959. Retrieved March 31, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
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  18. ↑ "1959 North Carolina Tar Heels Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
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