Wake Forest at North Carolina

Saturday, September 30, 1922

North Carolina beat Wake Forest 62–⁠3. It was their 21st meeting; after it, North Carolina led the series 15–⁠0 in the games on file.

AwayWake Forest3–⁠5–⁠2 in 1922
3
HomeNorth Carolina9–⁠1 in 1922
62

FinalHigh 84°F, low 53°FAttendance 2,427

In the newspapers

  • The Rockingham post-dispatch's story: Football Last Saturday.

    Rockingham post-dispatch, Rockingham, N.C., October 5, 1922, page 9

    Read the text

    Football Last Saturday. Football scores last Saturday: University of North Carolina 62; Wake Forest 3. State College 20, Randolph-Macon 2. Trinity 43, Guilford 0. Centre II, Clemson @. The University of North Carolina will play Yale at New Haven Saturday; State College will play Washington and Lee University; Trinity will play Hampton-Sidney at Durham; Davidson will play Georgia Tech at Atlanta.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

North Carolina 77% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, North Carolina leads 74–⁠37–⁠2; as played, 71–⁠34–⁠2 in the 107 games on file; the official count covers all 113 meetings, counting the 92 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Wake Forest 28, North Carolina 12
2024North Carolina 31, Wake Forest 24
2022North Carolina 36, Wake Forest 34
2021North Carolina 58, Wake Forest 55
2020North Carolina 59, Wake Forest 53
2019Wake Forest 24, North Carolina 18

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