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Bill Dooley was head football coach at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1967 to 1977, the longest tenure of any Tar Heel football coach. His teams went 69-53-2, won Atlantic Coast Conference titles in 1971, 1972 and 1977, and played in six bowl games.
Source: UNC Athletics: Bill Dooley Passes Away At Age 82
1934–2016 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Hugh Morton photograph from 1970 of halfback Don McCauley (#23), head coach Bill Dooley and fullback Geoff Hamlin (#33) at a Carolina football game in Kenan Stadium. McCauley was an All America back, and Dooley coached the Tar Heels from 1967 to 1977. Black-and-white 8 x 10 print.
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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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Dooley, Bill, 1934-2016.
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