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Phil Ford

1956– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineBuilding and opening the Dean E. Smith Center, 1978–19891978–1989 · 30 events · UNC planned a basketball arena and athletic complex for the former Baity land in 1978, and in 1980 the trustees and the Chapel Hill Town Council approved a center seating about 22,000. Private gifts and an Educational Foundation loan paid for it, and students won a better seating plan in 1982. In 1983 and 1984 engineers reviewed a former subcontractor's charges about its steel and then cracks in its beams. After a delay the center opened as the Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center with a win over Duke on January 18, 1986, and was dedicated that September. It lost about $120,000 in its first year but drew almost 1.02 million people to 72 events by early 1988, and in 1989 the athletic director added lower-level seats for students.

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September 6, 1986 The Dean E. Smith Center is formally dedicated at a pro-alumni basketball game The $34 million Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center, open since January, was formally dedicated with a game among former Tar Heels who had played professional basketball, held after the Citadel football game; the dedication had been put off so more of Smith's former players could come. The jerseys of national players of the year Phil Ford, James Worthy, Michael Jordan and Lennie Rosenbluth were retired and eight others honored, and proceeds from more than 21,000 tickets at $5 went to the Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill and the North Carolina Athletes Against Crime. People: Dean Smith, Roy Williams, Phil Ford, James Worthy, Michael Jordan Place: Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center, Chapel Hill · Also named: Lennie RosenbluthSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 4, 1986, p. 5

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By Phil Ford

Dean Smith, 1931-2015 : special tribute issue

Ford, Phil · 2015

Tribute magazine issued in 2015 after the death of Dean Smith, the longtime basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with Phil Ford also represented. Seventy-two pages with illustrations, dated on the cover for newsstand display between February and May of that year. Topics include Smith, the Tar Heels and basketball coaching in Chapel Hill.

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About Phil Ford

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Photographic Services photographs, 1976-2003.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Photographic Services · 1976

Photographs produced by the Photographic Services unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library between 1976 and 2003, about 2,500 items in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Includes a run of copy negatives, 1977 to 2006. Subjects include William Aycock, Doris Betts, Reynolds Price, Dean Smith, William S. Powell and Hugh Morton.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Ford, Phil, 1956-.

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Dean E. Smith Center University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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