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Dick Crum

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  1. UNC names Dick Crum head football coach UNC hired Dick Crum, coach at Miami University of Ohio, as head football coach after a 12-day search to replace Bill Dooley, who had left for Virginia Tech. Crum met his players the next morning. People: Dick Crum, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bill DooleySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 23, 1978, p. 1
  2. Dick Crum resigns as UNC football coach in a buyout paid by the Educational Foundation Crum, UNC's winningest football coach at 72-41-3 over ten seasons, resigned effective Jan. 31, 1988, after a 5-6 season, in a joint statement with Athletic Director John Swofford and Chancellor Christopher Fordham saying the program no longer had the full support of the University community. The Educational Foundation, or Rams Club, agreed to pay him $400,000 at once and $100,000 a year for the four years left on his contract. People: Dick Crum, John Swofford Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Christopher FordhamSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, December 1, 1987, p. 1
  3. More than 230 UNC faculty members call for an open inquiry into the Educational Foundation after Dick Crum's buyout At the Faculty Council meeting mathematics professor William Smith presented a proposal signed by more than 230 faculty members asking for a thorough and open investigation of the Educational Foundation, or Rams Club, and its influence on University affairs, after the foundation paid football coach Dick Crum $400,000 and $100,000 a year for the four years left on his contract to resign. It also asked for a review of the athletic department's finances, its ties to the foundation and its commitment to academic principles. People: Dick Crum Place: Faculty Council, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: William SmithSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 13, 1988, p. 1

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Football Office records, 1934-2008.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Football Office · 1934

Records of the Football Office at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1934 to 2008, counted at 5,152 items, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40291. Coaches and players represented include Mack Brown, Bill Dooley, Dick Crum, Carl Torbush, John Bunting, Charlie Justice and Lawrence Taylor. The records also concern the university's baseball, basketball and tennis programs. Materials in English.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Crum, Dick, 1934-.

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