Jim Tatum

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1934 Jim Tatum is named an All-Southern tackle at UNC Tatum enrolled at UNC with the persuasion and financial aid of his uncle William Donald Carmichael Jr. He played tackle under Chuck Collins and Carl Snavely, was named All-Southern in 1934, also caught for the baseball team, and graduated in 1935. People: Carl Snavely, William D. Carmichael Jr. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Tatum, James Moore (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
2. 1939 Jim Tatum returns to UNC as director of freshman athletics After following Carl Snavely to Cornell as an assistant football coach and head baseball coach, Tatum came back to Chapel Hill in 1939 as UNC's director of freshman athletics. People: Carl Snavely Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Tatum, James Moore (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 10, 1939, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 28, 1939, p. 4
3. August 27 to September 26, 1942 The Pre-Flight School holds its first indoctrination course for 135 new Navy athletic instructors A one-month course for 135 newly commissioned V-5 physical training instructors, the first held anywhere but the Naval Academy, ran at Chapel Hill and sent its graduates to Navy aviation bases across the country, with 21 kept on the Chapel Hill staff. The class included former Yale coach Raymond Pond and Stanford basketball star Hank Luisetti. Such courses then ran at Chapel Hill about once a month; the December 1942 class included UNC football coach Jim Tatum. People: Jim Tatum Place: Navy Pre-Flight School, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Raymond Pond, Hank LuisettiCloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), September 26, 1942, p. 1
4. September 1 to November 21, 1942 Jim Tatum coaches UNC football for a single season Chosen by the end of April 1942 as head coach for the duration of the war while Ray Wolf was in the Navy, Tatum was UNC's head football coach for one season. He began fall practice on September 1, 1942 with a staff of former Carolina players, and the team closed its schedule on November 21 with a 28-13 win over Virginia, finishing with five wins, two losses and two ties. He then joined the navy and learned the split-T formation as an assistant to its founder, Don Faurot, at Iowa Pre-Flight. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Don FaurotSearch the index · NCpedia: Tatum, James Moore (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 1, 1942, p. 2; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 4, 1942, p. 3; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 27, 1942, p. 3
5. 1956 Jim Tatum returns to Chapel Hill as head football coach Tatum came back to UNC in 1956 at a substantial cut in salary and reorganized and expanded the university's Educational Foundation, the source of its athletic grants-in-aid. He had the only losing season of his career that year, 2-7-1, and followed it with 6-4 records in 1957 and 1958. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Tatum, James Moore (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
6. 1957 Football coach Jim Tatum and his wife Edna build a house on Laurel Hill Road The house pairs a two-story colonial block with a split-level stone living-room wing and a bowed window, probably from mail-order plans. Tatum had come back to coach UNC the year before. Place: Tatum House, 308 Laurel Hill Road, Laurel Hill, Chapel Hill · Also named: Edna TatumSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, National Register nomination (OR1748), p. 24
7. July 23, 1959 Jim Tatum dies at Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill Tatum apparently contracted an overwhelming viral infection while visiting Canada with the coaches Peahead Walker and Frank Howard, and died one week after entering Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. He was buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery. People: Peahead Walker Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Frank Howard · Also mentions: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, Memorial HospitalSearch the index · NCpedia: Tatum, James Moore (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
8. July 25, 1959 Jim Tatum is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery after a service led by Charles S. Hubbard More than 300 people attended the burial of football coach Jim Tatum in the old cemetery across from Woollen Gym. The Rev. Charles Hubbard of University Methodist Church conducted the service, and eighteen of Tatum's players were pallbearers. People: Charles S. Hubbard, Jim Tatum Place: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery · Also named: Charles Hubbard · Also mentions: University Methodist Church, Woollen GymSearch the index · The News of Orange County: Rest For Sunny Jim (July 30, 1959, p. 1)