1959 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

1959 North Carolina Tar Heels football
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
Record	5–5 (5–2 ACC)
Head coach	Jim Hickey (1st season)
Captains	Jack Cummings Wade Smith
Home stadium	Kenan Memorial Stadium
Seasons ←  1958 1960  →

1959 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 11 Clemson $	6	–	1	–	0			9	–	2	–	0
North Carolina	5	–	2	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
Maryland	4	–	2	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
South Carolina	4	–	3	–	0			6	–	4	–	0
Wake Forest	4	–	3	–	0			6	–	4	–	0
Duke	2	–	3	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
NC State	0	–	6	–	0			1	–	9	–	0
Virginia	0	–	5	–	0			0	–	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 college 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

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 19	2:00 p.m. [1]	No. 18 Clemson	No. 12	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC	L 18–20	43,000 [2]	[3]
September 26	2:30 p.m. [4]	at Notre Dame *		Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, IN (rivalry)	L 8–28	56,746 [5]	[6]
October 3	2:00 p.m. [7]	NC State		Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)	W 20–12	38,000	[8]
October 10	2:00 p.m. [9]	No. 11 South Carolina		Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)	W 19–6	29,000 [10]	[11]
October 17	1:30 p.m. [12]	at Maryland		Byrd Stadium College Park, MD	L 7–14	22,000	[13]
October 24	2:00 p.m. [14]	at Wake Forest		Bowman Gray Stadium Winston-Salem, NC (rivalry)	W 21–19	19,000 [15]	[16]
October 31	2:00 p.m. [17]	No. 20 Tennessee *		Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC	L 7–29	30,000 [18]	[19]
November 6	8:15 p.m. [20]	at Miami (FL) *		Miami Orange Bowl Miami, FL	L 7–14	31,136 [21]	[22]
November 14	2:00 p.m. [23]	Virginia		Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (South's Oldest Rivalry)	W 41–0	21,000	[24]
November 26	1:45 p.m. [25]	at Duke		Duke Stadium Durham, NC (Victory Bell)	W 50–0	33,000	[26]
*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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