Bill Dooley

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1. 1967-1977 Bill Dooley becomes Carolina's head football coach Dooley, 32, came to Chapel Hill from the University of Georgia, where he had been chief offensive assistant to his brother Vince. He coached the Tar Heels for eleven seasons through 1977, the longest tenure of any UNC head football coach, with a record of 69-53-2. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Athletics: Bill Dooley Passes Away At Age 82 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, May 4, 1967, p. 5; The Daily Tar Heel, October 29, 1967, p. 1
2. 1969 UNC head football coach Bill Dooley buys the Wood house on Fern Lane Dooley bought the 1957 Ranch built for radiologist Ernest Wood and lived there until 1994. People: Bill Dooley Place: Wood House, 110 Fern Lane, Laurel Hill, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ernest WoodSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, National Register nomination (OR1748), p. 10
3. 1971 John Bunting co-captains Carolina's ACC championship football team Linebacker John Bunting was co-captain, with quarterback Paul Miller, of the 1971 Tar Heels, who went 9-3 and won the Atlantic Coast Conference title. He was named first-team All-ACC and the team's defensive MVP. People: John Bunting, Bill Dooley Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Paul MillerSearch the index · UNC Athletics: The John Bunting File
4. October 10, 1971 Former football players form a Committee of Concerned Athletes and challenge the faculty report Eleven former UNC football players calling themselves the Committee of Concerned Athletes held a press conference in the Student Union to attack the faculty report on a player's heat-stroke death, releasing a 22-page statement with affidavits alleging abuse of players and asking for an independent grievance board, a players' association, an end to the athletic dormitory and release of the hearings. The varsity answered with a statement backing the program, and on October 13 Coach Bill Dooley led the team, in practice gear, into the committee's next press conference to confront its chairman, Bill Richardson. People: Bill Dooley Place: Carolina Union, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bill RichardsonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 11, 1971, p. 1
5. 1972 Dooley's Tar Heels go 11-1 and win a second straight ACC title Bill Dooley's 1972 team set the school record for wins in a season, going 11-1, repeated as Atlantic Coast Conference champion and played in the Sun Bowl. Ron Rusnak was a first-team All-America, and the team finished 12th in the AP poll. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Ron RusnakSearch the index · UNC Athletics: Bill Dooley Passes Away At Age 82
6. September 4, 1972 Coach Bill Dooley red-shirts the team's Black quarterback, and the BSM objects Football coach Bill Dooley announced that a Black sophomore quarterback, a high school All-American who had shared the freshman starting job, would sit out the 1972 season as a red-shirt. BSM chairman Warren Carson and Black Ink called the decision racist, and the player soon transferred to Michigan State. Place: Kenan Field House, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Warren CarsonSearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 1972, p. 5
7. fall 1973 Bill Dooley hires Jim Webster and John Guy, UNC's first Black football coaches Former Tar Heel linebacker Jim Webster, winner of the 1972 Brian Piccolo Award, joined Bill Dooley's staff as the first Black football coach at UNC, and A&T All-Conference safety John Guy came on as an assistant. Dooley denied that Black students' requests for Black coaches had influenced him. Place: Kenan Field House, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jim Webster, John GuySearch the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 1973, p. 6
8. 1977 to January 8, 1978 Dooley wins a third ACC title, then leaves for Virginia Tech Carolina won the 1977 Atlantic Coast Conference title, Dooley's third, finished 17th in the AP poll and played in the Liberty Bowl, with Dee Hardison a first-team All-America. On January 8, 1978, after 11 seasons and a 69-53-2 record at Carolina, Dooley was named head football coach and athletic director at Virginia Tech, and five of his assistants followed him there. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Dee HardisonSearch the index · UNC Athletics: Bill Dooley Passes Away At Age 82 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, January 11, 1978, p. 1