1942 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

The 1942 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1942 college football season. The Tar Heels were led by first-year head coach Jim Tatum and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. They competed as a member of the Southern Conference. Tatum left the school to join the Navy at the end of the season.[1] He returned to coach the Tar Heels from 1956 to 1958.

1942 North Carolina Tar Heels football
ConferenceSouthern Conference
Record5–2–2 (3–1–1 SoCon)
Head coach
CaptainJoe Austin, Tank Marshall
Home stadiumKenan Memorial Stadium
1942 Southern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 14 William & Mary $ 4 –0 –09 –1 –1
VPI 5 –1 –07 –2 –1
Wake Forest 6 –1 –16 –2 –1
North Carolina 3 –1 –15 –2 –2
Duke 3 –1 –15 –4 –1
NC State 3 –1 –24 –4 –2
Furman 3 –3 –03 –6 –0
The Citadel 2 –2 –05 –2 –0
Clemson 2 –3 –13 –6 –1
Davidson 2 –4 –12 –6 –1
VMI 2 –4 –13 –5 –1
George Washington 2 –4 –03 –6 –0
Maryland 1 –2 –07 –2 –0
South Carolina 1 –4 –01 –7 –1
Richmond 1 –5 –03 –6 –1
Washington and Lee 0 –4 –01 –8 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

North Carolina was ranked at No. 48 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.[2]

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 263:00 p.m.[3]Wake Forest
W 6–010,000[4]
October 33:00 p.m.[5]South Carolina
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
W 18–614,000[6]
October 101:45 p.m.[7]at Fordham*
T 0–019,500[8]
October 172:30 p.m.[9]No. 13 Duquesne*
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC
W 13–614,000[10]
October 243:30 p.m.[11]at Tulane*No. 19
L 14–2922,000[12][13]
October 312:30 p.m.[14]at NC State
L 14–21
November 72:30 p.m.[15]vs. Davidson
W 43–14[16]
November 142:00 p.m.[17]Duke
  • Kenan Memorial Stadium
  • Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)
T 13–1333,000[18]
November 212:00 p.m.[19]at Virginia*
W 28–136,000[20]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

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References
  1. "North Carolina Loses Coach Tatum to Navy". New York Times. December 1, 1942. p. 29.
  2. Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 16, 1942). "Litkenhous Rates Georgia No. 1, Ohio State No. 2". Twin City Sentinel. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, September 26, 1942, Image 1". September 26, 1942. p. 1.
  4. "The daily Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1946-current, September 27, 1942, Image 1". September 27, 1942. p. 1.
  5. "The News and Observer from Raleigh, North Carolina on October 3, 1942 · 8".
  6. "The State from Columbia, South Carolina on October 4, 1942 · 13".
  7. "Daily News from New York, New York on October 10, 1942 · 252".
  8. "Daily News from New York, New York on October 11, 1942 · 72".
  9. "The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina on October 17, 1942 · 16".
  10. Dick Herbert (October 18, 1942). "Duke, Carolina Defeat Easterners: Joe Austin Gets Brace of Scores". The News and Observer. p. Sports 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana on October 24, 1942 · Page 12".
  12. "The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana on October 25, 1942 · Page 20".
  13. "Tulane in 29–14 victory over Carolina". The Charlotte Observer. October 25, 1942. Retrieved April 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Technician, Vol. 23 No. 6, October 30, 1942 - technician-v23n6-1942-10-30 - NC State University Libraries' Rare and Unique Digital Collections | NC State University Libraries' Rare and Unique Digital Collections".
  15. "The News and Observer from Raleigh, North Carolina on November 7, 1942 · 8".
  16. "'Ram-less' Tar Heels manage to ram home gridiron victory". The Durham Herald-Sun. November 8, 1942. Retrieved September 5, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. "The Duke Chronicle, vol. 39, no. 17 (Friday, November 13, 1942)".
  18. "The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, November 20, 1942, Image 1". November 20, 1942.
  19. "The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, November 21, 1942, FINAL EDITION, Image 2". November 21, 1942. p. 2.
  20. "Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, November 22, 1942, Image 37". November 22, 1942.
  21. "1942 North Carolina Tar Heels Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
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