Chapel Hill is a town in Orange and Durham Counties North Carolina,United States. Its population was 61,960 in the 2020 census,making Chapel Hill the 17th-most populous municipality in the state. Chapel Hill and Durham make up the Durham-Chapel Hill,NC Metropolitan Statistical Area,which had an estimated population of 608,879 in 2023. When it is combined with Raleigh,the state capital,they make up the corners of the Research Triangle,which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university in Chapel Hill,North Carolina,United States. Chartered in 1789,the university first began enrolling students in 1795,making it one of the oldest public universities in the United States.
The Confederate Monument,University of North Carolina,commonly known as Silent Sam,is a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier by Canadian sculptor John A. Wilson,which once stood on McCorkle Place of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) from 1913 until it was pulled down by protestors on August 20,2018. Its former location has been described as "the front door" of the university and "a position of honor".
William Brantley Aycock was an American educator who served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 until 1964 and was the retired Kenan Professor of Law at the UNC School of Law. He was born in Lucama,North Carolina in 1915.
Forest Orion "Mick" Mixon III is the former play-by-play radio voice announcer for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. Mixon took this position during the 2005 football season,replacing Bill Rosinski. Previously,he was the color analyst for the Tar Heel Sports Network,working alongside former "Voice of the Tar Heels," play-by-play announcer Woody Durham,beginning in 1989.
Woody Lombardi Durham was an American play-by-play radio announcer for the North Carolina Tar Heels football and men's basketball programs from 1971 to 2011.
The North Carolina–NC State rivalry,also known as the State-Carolina game,Carolina–State Game,North Carolina–NC State game,NCSU–UNC game,and other similar permutations,is an ongoing series of athletic competitions between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels and North Carolina State University Wolfpack. The intensity of the game is driven by the universities' similar sizes,the fact the schools are separated by only 25 miles,and the large number of alumni that live within the state's borders. Both are charter members of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and are part of the Tobacco Road schools. The most popular games between the two are in football,basketball,and baseball.
Rameses is the ram mascot of the North Carolina Tar Heels. The anthropomorphic version of him wears a Tar Heels jersey. Two versions of Rameses appear at UNC sporting events. One is a member of the UNC cheerleading team in an anthropomorphic ram costume;the other is a live Dorset Horn sheep named Rameses who attends Carolina football games with his horns painted Carolina blue. There is a third UNC mascot;another anthropomorphic ram,Rameses Jr.,or RJ for short.
The North Carolina Tar Heels football team represents the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the sport of American football or gridiron football. The Tar Heels play in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
The Tar Heel Sports Network is a radio network in the United States dedicated to broadcasting live events and programming relating to North Carolina Tar Heels athletics. It is operated by Tar Heel Sports Properties,a property of LEARFIELD,which manages the multimedia rights for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The network's flagship station is WPTF in Raleigh,North Carolina.
The North Carolina–NC State football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the North Carolina Tar Heels football team of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the NC State Wolfpack football team of North Carolina State University.
Monrovie Jones Angell IV,known professionally as Jones Angell, is the current play-by-play radio announcer for the North Carolina Tar Heels football and basketball programs.
The 1898 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1898 college football season. They played nine games with a final record of 9–0. The team captain for the 1898 season was Frank O. Rogers. The team claims a Southern championship.
The 1970 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Tar Heels were led by fourth-year head coach Bill Dooley and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill,North Carolina. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference,finishing in second.
The 1967 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1967 NCAA University Division football season. The Tar Heels were led by first-year head coach Bill Dooley and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill,North Carolina.
The 1945 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1945 college football season. The Tar Heels were led by third-year head coach Carl Snavely,his first at UNC since 1935. North Carolina played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium and competed as a member of the Southern Conference.
The 1940 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1940 college football season. The Tar Heels were led by fifth-year head coach Raymond Wolf and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. They competed as a member of the Southern Conference.
The 1934 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1934 college football season. The Tar Heels were led by first-year head coach Carl Snavely and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. They competed as a member of the Southern Conference,finishing with an undefeated conference record of 2–0–1. North Carolina claims a conference championship for 1934,although the official conference champion is Washington and Lee,who finished 4–0–0.
The 2024 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tar Heels were led by head coach Mack Brown,who was in the sixth season of his second stint at North Carolina and 16th overall season at the university. The team played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium.
Christopher "Chris" Clemens,Jaroslav Folda Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy,is an American astrophysicist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who works on astronomical instrumentation,white dwarf stars,and exoplanetary debris. On 10 December 2021,Clemens was appointed Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost of UNC-Chapel Hill by Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz and confirmed by the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees.
