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1899 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

1899 North Carolina Tar Heels football
ConferenceSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Record7–3–1 (1–1 SIAA)
Head coach
Assistant coachJohn Gere Jayne (1st season)
CaptainSamuel Shull
Home stadiumCampus Athletic Field (I)
Seasons
← 1898
1900 →
1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Sewanee $ 11 – 0 – 0 12 – 0 – 0
Vanderbilt 5 – 0 – 0 7 – 2 – 0
Alabama 1 – 0 – 0 3 – 1 – 0
Nashville 4 – 1 – 0 4 – 1 – 1
Tennessee 2 – 1 – 0 6 – 2 – 0
Auburn 2 – 1 – 1 3 – 1 – 1
Texas 3 – 2 – 0 6 – 2 – 0
North Carolina 1 – 1 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
Ole Miss 3 – 4 – 0 3 – 4 – 0
Georgia 2 – 3 – 1 2 – 3 – 1
Clemson 1 – 2 – 0 4 – 2 – 0
Central (KY) 1 – 2 – 0 1 – 2 – 0
LSU 1 – 3 – 0 1 – 4 – 0
Kentucky State 0 – 1 – 0 5 – 2 – 2
SW Presbyterian 0 – 1 – 0 1 – 1 – 0
Cumberland (TN) 0 – 3 – 0 0 – 3 – 0
Georgia Tech 0 – 5 – 0 0 – 6 – 0
Tulane 0 – 5 – 0 0 – 6 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1899 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. They played eleven games with a final record of 7–3–1. The team captain for the 1899 season was Samuel Shull.[1]

Former Sewanee head coach John Gere Jayne (Princeton '97) was hired as an assistant coach.

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 74:00 p.m.[2]North Carolina A&M
W 34–0[3]
October 121:30 p.m.[4]Oak Ridge
  • Campus Athletic Field (I)
  • Chapel Hill, NC
W 16–0[5]
October 142:00 p.m.[4]Guilford
  • Campus Athletic Field (I)
  • Chapel Hill, NC
W 45–0[6]
October 213:30 p.m.[7]vs. Davidson
W 10–0[8]
October 232:00 p.m.[7]Horner's School (NC)
  • Campus Athletic Field (I)
  • Chapel Hill, NC
W 46–0
October 282:00 p.m.[9]at North Carolina A&M
T 11–11[10]
October 313:15 p.m.[11]"Old" Maryland
  • Campus Athletic Field (I)
  • Chapel Hill, NC
W 6–0[12]
November 4at Navy
L 0–12[13]
November 82:00 p.m.[14]at Princeton
L 0–30[15]
November 302:30 p.m.[16]vs. Georgia
W 5–03,000[17][18]
December 22:30 p.m.[19]vs. Sewanee
  • Piedmont Park
  • Atlanta, GA
L 0–52,000[20][21]

References

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  1. ^ "The Hellenian [1900] :: North Carolina College and University Yearbooks". Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
  2. ^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, October 11, 1899, Image 1". No. 1899/10/11. October 11, 1899. p. 1.
  3. ^ "First football game; University beats A. & M. College in a well played contest". The Morning Post. October 8, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, October 18, 1899, Image 1". No. 1899/10/18. October 18, 1899. p. 1.
  5. ^ "Carolina defeats Oak Ridge in football". Asheville Daily Gazette. October 13, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Never touched Guilford; Carolina only scored 45 to Guilford's nothing". The News and Observer. October 15, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, October 25, 1899, Image 1". No. 1899/10/25. October 25, 1899. p. 1.
  8. ^ "University defeats Davidson College by a close score". The Morning Post. October 22, 1899. Retrieved September 5, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "The News & Observer. (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, October 27, 1899, Image 5". No. 1899/10/27. October 27, 1899. p. 5.
  10. ^ "A. & M. surprised". The Morning Post. October 29, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, November 08, 1899, Image 1". No. 1899/11/08. November 8, 1899. p. 1.
  12. ^ "University of Maryland beaten". The Baltimore Sun. November 1, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Naval Cadets win". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 5, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Daily Princetonian 8 November 1899 – Princeton Periodicals".
  15. ^ "Princeton wins 30 to 0". The New York Times. November 9, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia on November 30, 1899 · Page 1 (newspapers.com)".
  17. ^ "The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia on December 1, 1899 · Page 3 (newspapers.com)".
  18. ^ "Georgia defeated by North Carolina". The Atlanta Journal. December 1, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia on December 2, 1899 · Page 1 (newspapers.com)".
  20. ^ "The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia on December 3, 1899 · Page 8 (newspapers.com)".
  21. ^ "Sewanee is champion". The Times-Democrat. December 3, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.


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