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John Swofford played quarterback and defensive back for UNC from 1969 to 1971 and was named the university's athletics director at 31, holding the job from 1980 to 1997. Carolina won the Sears Directors' Cup in 1994, and in 1997 he became commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Source: Atlantic Coast Conference: John Swofford staff biography
1948– as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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UNC athletic director John Swofford at the inauguration of Michael Hooker as chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill on 12 October 1995. Hugh Morton shot it on 35 mm color negative film.
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Woody Durham, John Swofford, Charlie Justice and Dick Baddour, left to right, gathered for an event in the UNC-Chapel Hill Alumni Center, about the late 1990s or early 2000s. Color print by Hugh Morton.
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UNC athletic director John Swofford at a press conference for WCHL 1360, the Chapel Hill radio station, sometime between 1988 and 1994. 35 mm black-and-white negative by Hugh Morton.
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Press conference for the Chapel Hill radio station WCHL 1360, 1988 to 1994, with an unidentified man, UNC athletic director John Swofford and head football coach Mack Brown, left to right. Hugh Morton, 35 mm black-and-white film.
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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.
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Ceremony at Kenan Memorial Stadium on 9 November 1985, during UNC's game with Clemson, honoring former UNC baseball and football player George 'Snuffy' Stirnweiss, with his family accepting. UNC athletic director John Swofford stands at far left beside Clyde King, with Ernie Williamson next to King. Hugh Morton, 35 mm film.
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Departmental records of athletics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, running from 1919 to 1997 with some material from 2000, about 88,000 items across 92.5 linear feet in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40093. Topics include baseball, basketball, football, tennis, track and field and wrestling, along with Title IX and the athletic directors Robert Fetzer and John Swofford. Includes photographs.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Swofford, John, 1948-.
John Swofford in three undated photographs: presenting a jersey to a UNC athlete, possibly named Strickland, a formal portrait, and an informal shot of him talking with two men. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's UNC Faculty and Administration binder.
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