1971 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
1971 North Carolina Tar Heels football | |
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ACC champion | |
Gator Bowl, L 3–7 vs. Georgia | |
Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference |
Ranking | |
Coaches | No. 18 |
1971 record | 9–3 (6–0 ACC) |
Head coach | Bill Dooley (5th season) |
Offensive coordinator | Bobby Collins (5th season) |
1971 ACC football standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North Carolina $ | 6 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Clemson | 4 | – | 2 | 5 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Duke | 2 | – | 3 | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Virginia | 2 | – | 3 | 3 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wake Forest | 2 | – | 3 | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NC State | 2 | – | 4 | 3 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maryland | 1 | – | 4 | 2 | – | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1971 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the North Carolina Tar Heels of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1971 college football season.[2] The Tar Heels were led by fifth-year head coach Bill Dooley and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. North Carolina won the Atlantic Coast Conference with a perfect conference record of 6–0. They were invited to the 1971 Gator Bowl, where they lost to Georgia.
Schedule
Date | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | Result | |||||
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September 11 | at Richmond* | City Stadium • Richmond, VA | W 28–0 | ||||||
September 18 | at Illinois* | Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL | W 27–0 | ||||||
September 25 | Maryland | Kenan Memorial Stadium • Chapel Hill, NC | W 35–14 | ||||||
October 2 | at NC State | No. 20 | Carter Stadium • Raleigh, NC (Rivalry) | W 27–7 | |||||
October 9 | Tulane* | No. 18 | Kenan Memorial Stadium • Chapel Hill, NC | L 29–37 | |||||
October 16 | at No. 7 Notre Dame* | Notre Dame Stadium • South Bend, IN | L 0–16 | ||||||
October 23 | Wake Forest | Kenan Memorial Stadium • Chapel Hill, NC (Rivalry) | W 7–3 | ||||||
October 30 | William & Mary* | Kenan Memorial Stadium • Chapel Hill, NC | W 36–35 | ||||||
November 6 | Clemson | Kenan Memorial Stadium • Chapel Hill, NC | W 26–13 | ||||||
November 13 | at Virginia | Scott Stadium • Charlottesville, VA (South's Oldest Rivalry) | W 32–20 | ||||||
November 20 | at Duke | Wallace Wade Stadium • Durham, NC (Victory Bell) | W 38–0 | ||||||
December 31 | vs. No. 6 Georgia* | Gator Bowl Stadium • Jacksonville, FL (Gator Bowl) | L 3–7 | ||||||
*Non-conference game. #Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game time. |
References
- ↑ "1971 Atlantic Coast Conference Year Summary". sports-reference.com. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
- ↑ "1971 North Carolina Tar Heels". College Football at Sports-Reference.com.
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