Bill Folger

Augustine William "Bill" Folger was a college football player.

Bill Folger
North Carolina Tar Heels
PositionHalfback/Fullback
ClassGraduate
Career history
CollegeNorth Carolina (1916)
Career highlights and awards

University of North Carolina

Folger was a prominent running back for the North Carolina Tar Heels football of the University of North Carolina. One Dr. R. B. Lawson picked Folger as a second-team fullback on his all-time North Carolina football team.[1][2]

1916

Folger starred in the game against conference champion Georgia Tech.[3] Davidson would have defeated North Carolina had it not been for a 61-yard touchdown run from Folger.[4] On November 13, he completed one of the most significant plays in the early history of the Carolina football program,[5][6] a 52-yard touchdown run in the third quarter against Virginia. He was taken out in the fourth quarter when he showed signs of overwork.[7] It was the first defeat of Virginia for the Tar Heels since 1905, and its first touchdown against its rival since 1913.[8] He was selected All-Southern.[9] Folger was elected captain for 1917.[10][11] Due to the First World War, the school had only no varsity football that year.[12]

Thomas Wolfe

He briefly shared a flat with author Thomas Wolfe in New York in 1923, who based the character of Jim Randolph in The Web and the Rock on Folger.[13]

See also

References
  1. "'All-Time' UNC Teams Compared". Carolina Alumni Review: 14. December 1969.
  2. "All-Time Carolina Football Team Selected". Carolina Alumni Review. 22 (6): 168. March 1934.
  3. "Georgia Tech In Hard Fought Game Beats Carolina". Asheville Citizen. October 22, 1916. p. 28. Retrieved April 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Folger Fives Win To North Carolina". The Twin-City Daily Sentinel. November 13, 1916. p. 7. Retrieved April 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Adam Powell. University of North Carolina Football. p. 13.
  6. Thomas Wolfe. The Magical Campus:University of North Carolina Writings 1917-1920. p. 102.
  7. "Folger the Main Feature". Winstom-Salem Journal. December 1, 1916. p. 1. Retrieved April 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Third Quarter–Folger's 52YD. Run For Touchdown". The Daily Tar Heel. December 2, 1916. p. 5. Retrieved April 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Intercollegiate Athletic Calendar. 1. p. 167.
  10. "Folger captain, Armstrong manager". The Alumni Review. University of North Carolina. 5. December 1916.
  11. "Folger Elected Captain Carolina Football Team". The Daily Tar Heel. December 16, 1916. p. 1. Retrieved April 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "University of North Carolina ... football blue book for press and radio". 1956. p. 31.
  13. M. C. Rintoul. Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction. p. 417 – via Google books.
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