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Ernest Graves

Ernest Graves was born in Chapel Hill, the son of a University of North Carolina mathematics professor, and grew up in the boardinghouse his mother ran on the site of the present Carolina Inn. At the university he played fullback on the undefeated 1898 football team and captained the 1900 baseball team before becoming an army engineer.

Source: NCpedia: Graves, Ernest (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 1986)

1880–1953 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Ernest Graves, portrait plate, 1919
Ernest Graves, portrait plate, 1919

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StorylineCarolina athletics from the ban to the undefeated 1898 team, 1888–19021888–1902 · 13 events · Carolina athletics began with a fight over whether to play at all: organized football started at the university in 1888, and by 1890 the trustees had forbidden intercollegiate contests altogether. A student petition won repeal by January 1891, and that April the football and baseball associations united as the Athletic Association. The 1892 team lost only to Virginia and then beat Virginia in a rematch at Atlanta. In 1895 the association hired Princeton's Thomas G. Trenchard, whose team won seven games before losing to Virginia. After a disorderly fall term the faculty in 1896 barred students on probation from the teams and made players pledge not to drink or gamble on trips. The 1898 team was undefeated and untied.

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  1. Ernest Graves plays fullback on the undefeated 1898 Carolina football team Graves, a Chapel Hill native, played fullback for the university and was a member of its undefeated, untied team of 1898. He scored 131 points in his Carolina football career. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Graves, Ernest
  2. Ernest Graves captains the Carolina baseball team Graves, the team's catcher, captained the university baseball team in 1900, the year he graduated. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Graves, Ernest
  3. Ralph H. Graves is buried in Chapel Hill Ralph H. Graves, a New York editor and newspaper syndicate agent born in Chapel Hill, died at his home in Garden City, Long Island, on December 1, 1939. After a funeral there, a burial service was held at the Chapel Hill cemetery on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 5. People: Ralph H. Graves (1878-1939), Louis Graves, Ernest Graves Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill cemeterySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 8, 1939, p. 2 (Ralph Henry Graves)

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Louis and Mildred Graves papers, 1814 ; 1876-1992.

Graves, Louis, 1883-1965 · 1814

Louis Graves (1883-1965) and Mildred Moses Graves left roughly 7,700 items in eleven linear feet, a single 1814 document and then a run from 1876 to 1992, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4010. Graves edited the Chapel Hill Weekly, and topics include North Carolina newspapers and their editors alongside family photographs, travel diaries and the social life of the Graves and Moses families.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Graves, Ernest, 1880-1953.

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Picture: Ernest Graves, portrait plate, 1919. Public domain. Charles D. Daly, American Football (1921); via the Internet Archive

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