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A varsity guard collapsed with heat stroke at a September 6, 1971 football practice and died on September 21. On October 8 the Faculty Council's Committee on Athletics reported that its inquiry, which heard 39 witnesses, found no negligence by the coaches; it found that no water break had been given in the practice but cited doctors who said water would not have prevented the stroke, and it faulted communication among players, coaches, trainers and team physicians. Two days later eleven former players calling themselves the Committee of Concerned Athletes attacked the report, released affidavits alleging abuse of players and asked for an independent grievance board, a players' association and an end to the athletic dormitory; on October 13 Coach Bill Dooley led the team into the committee's next press conference to confront its chairman, Bill Richardson. On October 21 Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson ordered a physician at all practices and a study of a sports medicine department, and in November the campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors set up its own committee on the athletic program. In April 1972 the Faculty Council received its Athletic Committee's special report, which called for a sports medicine program, an end to spring practice and the five-year eligibility rule and no required athletic dormitory, and asked that Student Stores profits stop going to the Athletic Department. On August 1, 1972 the Student Health Service began a Sports Medicine Program under Dr. Joseph L. DeWalt, with a physician at every game and practice and heat-humidity readings that could cut a practice short, which the Tar Heel called the only one of its kind in the nation.
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Oral history interview with Ashley Davis, April 12, 1974: interview E-0062, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Davis, Ashley · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Ashley Davis, who entered UNC in 1968 and joined the Black Student Movement, recalls the 1969 strike by the university's cafeteria workers and the BSM's decision to stand with them when the workers asked. Recorded April 12, 1974, by Russell Rymer for the Southern Oral History Program, the hour-and-a-half interview touches on Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson, the Southern Student Organizing Committee and race relations among students on campus. Published online in 2007 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.
Progress and protests : UNC-Chapel Hill leaders during "the Long Sixties" (1957-1972) : covering chancellors William Brantley Aycock, Paul F. Sharp, and J. Carlyle Sitterson
Roundtree, Lynn · 2024 · Lynn Roundtree
Lynn Roundtree covers the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between 1957 and 1972 through its three chancellors, William Brantley Aycock, Paul F. Sharp and J. Carlyle Sitterson, set against the student movements of those years. Part of the Coates university leadership series, published by the author in 2024 and running to 926 pages. It is twentieth century campus history.
The coy mistress caper.
1966 · Time Inc
A four page article clipped from Life, volume 61, number 20, dated November 11, 1966, on a dispute over academic freedom at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The article concerns the instructor Michael Paull, Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson, Jesse Helms and Andrew Marvell's poem 'To His Coy Mistress'. Illustrated, with portraits.
Oral history interview with J. Carlyle Sitterson, November 4 and 6, 1987 interview L-0030, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
Sitterson, J. Carlyle · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Southern Oral History Program interview with J. Carlyle Sitterson (1911-1995), chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1966, recorded by Pamela Dean on November 4 and 6, 1987, and running an hour and a half. Sitterson recalls the university in the 1960s: student demands over visitation rules, dress codes and privacy, the student movement, and the integration of the faculty. Interview L-0030 in collection #4007, published online in 2007 in Documenting the American South's Oral Histories of the American South.
About Bill Dooley · named in 2 of this story’s entries
UNC football, 1970
Morton, Hugh M. · 1970
Hugh Morton photograph from 1970 of halfback Don McCauley (#23), head coach Bill Dooley and fullback Geoff Hamlin (#33) at a Carolina football game in Kenan Stadium. McCauley was an All America back, and Dooley coached the Tar Heels from 1967 to 1977. Black-and-white 8 x 10 print.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Football Office records, 1934-2008.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Football Office · 1934
Records of the Football Office at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1934 to 2008, counted at 5,152 items, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40291. Coaches and players represented include Mack Brown, Bill Dooley, Dick Crum, Carl Torbush, John Bunting, Charlie Justice and Lawrence Taylor. The records also concern the university's baseball, basketball and tennis programs. Materials in English.
Wider background: Carolina Sports · the most widely held histories of the theme this story belongs to; they may not discuss it
Carolina Basketball: A Century of Excellence
Lucas, Adam · 2010 · University of North Carolina Press
Adam Lucas marks one hundred years of basketball at the University of North Carolina in this illustrated history, published by UNC Press in 2010 in association with the athletics department. Chapters follow the program from the game's arrival on campus and the 'White Phantoms' of the Southern Conference through the founding of the ACC, the 1957 season, Dean Smith's changes to the game and the title seasons of 1982, 1993, 2005 and 2009, closing with a century of statistics. 289 pages.
The Blue Divide: Duke, North Carolina, and the Battle on Tobacco Road
Moore, Johnny; Chansky, Art · 2014 · Triumph Books
The Duke and North Carolina basketball rivalry written together by Johnny Moore and Art Chansky, the latter a sports reporter who has followed it since his student days at UNC. The book opens with the 2014 season and moves through recruiting battles old and new, 'Black and Blue Sunday', 'Blood and Roses', and chapters on the rivalry's heroes, leaders and teachers, with a foreword by Jay Bilas and a photo gallery. Published by Triumph Books in 2014, 289 pages.
Game Changers
Chansky, Art · 2016
Art Chansky's 2016 account of Dean Smith, Charlie Scott and the years that changed Chapel Hill as a Southern college town. Scott was the first Black scholarship player in the Carolina basketball program. Topics include civil rights, racism in sports and the university's twentieth-century history.
What it means to be a Tar Heel: Roy Williams and North Carolina's greatest players
Fowler, Scott · 2010 · Triumph Books
Scott Fowler gathers recollections from Carolina basketball players, decade by decade from the 1950s to the 2000s, organized around Roy Williams and the question in the title. Contributors include Lennie Rosenbluth, Larry Brown, Billy Cunningham, Charlie Scott, Phil Ford, James Worthy, Brad Daugherty, Eric Montross, Vince Carter, Antawn Jamison, Raymond Felton and Sean May, each entry giving position and playing years. Published 2010 by Triumph Books of Chicago, 270 pages, here as an e-book.
To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever
Blythe, Will · 2006 · Harper Collins
Will Blythe's account of the Duke and North Carolina basketball rivalry, described in its subtitle as thoroughly obsessive, intermittently uplifting and occasionally unbiased. Blythe writes as a Chapel Hill partisan, and the book treats sports rivalries, basketball fans and the social side of the game in North Carolina. Published by HarperCollins in New York in 2006, first edition, 357 pages.
Light Blue Reign
Chansky, Art · 2009
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.
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Blue Blood II
Chansky, Art · 2018 · St. Martin's Press
A sequel to Art Chansky's 2005 Blue Blood, continuing the story of the Duke and North Carolina basketball rivalry through the years since that book appeared. Published by St. Martin's Press in 2018. First edition, 296 pages with color illustrations.
The Legends Club
Feinstein, John · 2016
John Feinstein's account of the three coaches who defined Triangle college basketball in the 1980s: Dean Smith (1931-2015) at North Carolina, Mike Krzyzewski at Duke and Jim Valvano (1946-1993) at N.C. State, all working within a few miles of one another. Feinstein follows the recruiting contests, the rivalry among the three programs and the personal competition among the three men, which was not always friendly, and the pressure that came with national attention. Published by Doubleday in 2016, 404 pages with plates.
Blue Blood
Chansky, Art · 2005 · T. Dunne Books : ST. Martin's Press
Fifty years of the Duke and North Carolina basketball rivalry, as told by Art Chansky and published by Thomas Dunne Books in 2005. Chapters run from the 'Legend of Tobacco Road' through 'Dominate, then integrate', 'Blue blood bitterness' and 'Fall of an empire' to a postscript on the twenty-first century, with attention to the brawls and controversies that fed the feud. 373 pages with sixteen pages of plates.
The Cloudbuster Nine
Keene, Anne R. · 2018
Anne R. Keene's history of the Cloudbusters, the baseball team of the Navy Pre-Flight School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill during the Second World War, on which Ted Williams played in 1943. The chapters move from a batboy's trunk of keepsakes through the pre-flight training program to the players' lives after the war, and Keene's own family is part of the story. Published by Sports Publishing in New York in 2018, 340 pages with sixteen pages of plates.
Woody Durham: A Tar Heel Voice
Durham, Woody; Lucas, Adam · 2012 · John F. Blair, Publisher
Memoir of Woody Durham, who called University of North Carolina football and basketball on the radio from 1971 until he retired in 2011, written with Adam Lucas. Four decades of Tar Heel games as heard from the broadcast booth. Subjects include radio broadcasters and sportscasters, North Carolina, biography.
The Dean's List
Chansky, Art · 1996 · Warner Books
Art Chansky's celebration of Tar Heel basketball and Dean Smith, published in 1996 as Smith neared the end of his coaching career at the University of North Carolina. The Tar Heels and the university's basketball history are its subjects. Published by Warner Books in New York, 152 pages with illustrations, some in color, in a large format.
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