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1892 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

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Conference
  
Independent

Head coach
  
None

1892 record
  
5–1

Captain
  
Mike Hoke

1892 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

The 1892 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1892 college football season. They played six games with a final record of 5–1. The team captain for the 1892 season was Mike Hoke. The team claims a southern title even though it was defeated by Virginia, for it beat the Cavaliers in a rematch. Those games with UVA mark the beginning of the South's Oldest Rivalry.

Varsity lettermen

First award:

  • Charles Baskerville, fullback
  • William Augustus Devin
  • Louis Isaac Guion, sub end
  • David Alexander Kirkpatrick, guard
  • William Daniel Merritt, sub end
  • James Thomas Pugh
  • Benjamin Edward Stanley, sub back
  • William Preston Wooten

    • Second award:

  • James Crawford Biggs, end
  • William Pinckney
  • Martin Currie
  • Norfleet Mann Gibbs, end
  • George Roscoe Little, tackle

    • Third award:

  • Alfred Smith Barnard, quarterback
  • Michael Hoke, halfback
  • Walter "Pete" Murphy, center
  • Howard Burton Shaw
  • Eugene Malcolm Snipes

    • References

    1892 North Carolina Tar Heels football team Wikipedia
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