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Justice played tailback at UNC in Chapel Hill from 1946 to 1949, leading Carolina to a 32-7-2 record and three New Year's Day bowl games. He was Walter Camp National Player of the Year in 1948, Heisman Trophy runner-up in 1948 and 1949, and was named to the 1950 class of UNC's Patterson Medal winners.
Source: University of North Carolina Athletics: Charlie Justice (1950), Patterson Medal Winners
1924–2003 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Bob Terrell's biography of Charlie 'Choo Choo' Justice, the tailback whose teams, the subtitle says, put North Carolina football in the big time. Justice, 1924 to 2003, played at Chapel Hill from 1946 to 1949 and twice finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting. Published by WorldComm in 1996, 224 pages with illustrations.
Bob Quincy and Julian Scheer's biography of Charlie Justice, the University of North Carolina football star of the late 1940s known as Choo Choo, written in 1958 while his fame was fresh. Justice (1924-2003) played his college ball in Chapel Hill. Published by Bentley Publishing Company, first edition, 132 pages with illustrations and portraits in a large format.
A recording of the football game between the North Carolina Tar Heels and the University of Miami on October 30, 2004. A bonus feature covers the dedication of the statue of the Carolina player Charlie Justice, who lived from 1924 to 2003. A visual record of one afternoon in the university's football season.
Charlie Justice's football pads are featured in an exhibit in the Hall of Honor that bears his name at UNC-Chapel Hill's Kenan Football Center. Photographed 31 May 2002 for North Carolina ECHO.
Harold Styers assembled this sketch book as a keepsake for the fiftieth reunion of the University of North Carolina football team that played in the 1947 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Illustrated recollections of Carolina football rather than a formal history, including Charlie Justice. Printed by the Craftsman Printing Company in 1996, 98 pages.
UNC President C. D. Spangler outside the President's house in Chapel Hill on 23 February 1988, holding the torn number 22 jersey of Charlie Justice. Spangler got it at the 1948 Virginia game by paying a cheerleader ten dollars to fetch it. Hugh Morton photograph.
Former UNC football star Charlie Justice, broadcaster Woody Durham and UNC athletics director John Swofford at the Roast and Toast of 25 January 1986 in Durham's honor, a benefit for Orange County Volunteers for Youth. Swofford served as honorary chairman and Justice as one of the roasters. Photograph by Hugh Morton.
Reunion of the 1948 Tar Heel football team at Homecoming on 17 November 1973, when UNC beat Wake Forest 42 to 0. All-Americans Charlie Justice and Art Weiner stand with team trainer Morris Mason during the pregame tribute at Kenan Stadium. Hugh Morton photograph.
Charlie 'Choo Choo' Justice watches UNC play Texas from the bleachers of Kenan Stadium on 27 September 1952, his left arm in a cast from a wrist broken on 21 August in a Washington Redskins game against the Los Angeles Rams. Orville Campbell sits to his right. Hugh Morton photograph.
Group on a tennis court, probably in Chapel Hill, in the early 1950s. From left: Charlie 'Choo Choo' Justice, the UNC football star, with Orville Campbell, Bob Cox and William D. Carmichael Jr. Hugh Morton photograph on black-and-white sheet film.
Spring 1949 Blue-White game at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill: UNC tailback Charlie Justice runs with the ball beside blocking back Danny Logue. Black-and-white negative by Hugh Morton.
Hugh Morton photograph of UNC football players Charlie 'Choo Choo' Justice and Art Weiner in 1949, most likely at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill.
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Bob Quincy and Julian Scheer's biography of Charlie Justice, the University of North Carolina football star of the late 1940s known as Choo Choo, written in 1958 while his fame was fresh. Justice (1924-2003) played his college ball in Chapel Hill. Published by Bentley Publishing Company, first edition, 132 pages with illustrations and portraits in a large format.
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Picture: Charlie Justice, newspaper photograph, 1950. Public domain. Los Angeles Mirror, 12 August 1950; via Wikimedia Commons
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