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McGuire arrived at UNC in 1952, where his first office was the ticket booth at Woollen Gym in Chapel Hill. His 1956-57 Tar Heels won 32 straight games and the national championship, beating Kansas in triple overtime, though only eight of those wins came at home.
Source: 247Sports: The Story Behind The Miracle of '57
1913–1994 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Art Chansky's 2009 history of the Carolina basketball dynasty that three coaches, Frank McGuire and Dean Smith among them, built at the University of North Carolina. Smith wrote the foreword and Rick Brewer the introduction. Chapters cover Final Fours, the Larry Brown bond, recruiting and the program's records.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: McGuire, Frank, 1913-1994.
Adam Lucas's account of the 1956-57 North Carolina Tar Heels, the team Frank McGuire coached through an undefeated season to the 1957 national title over Wilt Chamberlain's Kansas, told largely through McGuire's career. Chapters follow the coach's New York recruiting pipeline, the road schedule and the triple-overtime final, and the book closes with the season's roster and results. Published by Lyons Press in 2006, 210 pages with illustrations.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Durham record: McGuire, Frank, 1913-1994.
Video celebration of the 1982 national championship won by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, released on disc in 2006 by Tar Heel Sports Marketing. Bonus features cover the undefeated 1957 season under Frank McGuire, revisited by Woody Durham, and a remembrance of Hugh Morton. About 123 minutes, color with black and white sequences.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: McGuire, Frank, 1913-1994.
Hugh Morton photograph from the 1950s or 1960s of Frank McGuire, UNC's head basketball coach, seated in the stands at a Tar Heel football game and apparently holding a radio, most likely in Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill. The negative itself is labeled with the name Jim Falun. Black-and-white 120 roll film negative.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: McGuire, Frank, 1913-1994.
Adam Lucas recounts the 1956-57 season of Frank McGuire's North Carolina Tar Heels, which finished with a triple-overtime win against Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas for the national title. Forward Lennie Rosenbluth, who predicted a winning year when practice opened, and coach McGuire (1913-1994) are the central figures, and the subtitle credits the game with changing college basketball. Foreword by Roy Williams. Published 2012 by Lyons Press of Guilford, Connecticut, 237 pages with illustrations.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: McGuire, Frank, 1913-1994.
Coach Frank McGuire with his University of North Carolina basketball players in 1957, in two prints: the starting five posed with McGuire after the team reached number one in the AP poll, and McGuire in conversation with players. From the UNC Athletics binder, Chapel Hill Historical Society Prints and Photographs Collection, CHHS.002.
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Picture: Frank McGuire, 1960. Public domain. Photograph by University of North Carolina; UNC Basketball Blue Book; via Wikimedia Commons
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