The University of North Carolina Australian Rules Football Club is an Australian rules football club that is a student organization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was founded by Daylian Cain, as a feeder team for the NC Tigers. The UNC Australian Rules Football Club is the oldest college Australian rules football club in the United States. Additionally, the UNC Australian Rules Football Club were the winners of the National Collegiate Invitational in 2005 at Vanderbilt University and placed second at the National College Championships in 2008. The UNC Australian Rules Football Club is associated with the North Carolina Tigers Australian rules football club of the USAFL.
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between behind posts.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), also known as UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, or simply Carolina is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It is the flagship of the 17 campuses of the University of North Carolina system. After being chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolling students in 1795, which also allows it to be one of three schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States. Among the claimants, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the only one to have held classes and graduated students as a public university in the eighteenth century.
Vanderbilt University is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of New York shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million endowment despite having never been to the South. Vanderbilt hoped that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War.
