North Carolina at Maryland

Saturday, October 23, 1926

Maryland beat North Carolina 14–⁠6. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Maryland led the series 4–⁠3.

AwayNorth Carolina4–⁠5 in 1926
6
HomeMaryland5–⁠4–⁠1 in 1926
14

FinalHigh 58°F, low 37°F, 0.05 in. of rainAttendance 3,500

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: OLD-LINERS SCORE OVER NORTH CAROLINA ELEVEN Make Sensational Comeback After Iarheels Get Touchdown on First kick.Of-All scoring in 14-6 Game is in Opening Period.

    Evening star, October 24, 1926, page 79

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    OLD-LINERS SCORE OVER NORTH CAROLINA ELEVEN Make Sensational Comeback After Iarheels Get Touchdown on First kick.Of-All scoring in 14–⁠6 Game is in Opening Period. UNIVERSITY MARYLAND from North Carolina yesterday Park IA which all the scoring wa in before ~ place of the and in few contests have there And these quick that produced times brilliant loot bal and at other slow. game dozen seconds old before North Carolina Wa points Mcpherson umbled ther ball his 7ard line and started down the center clear about for Maryand chase him it would have been Tor turtle the yard dash the Southern Conference track

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 61% to win. Maryland won as Elo’s underdog.

North Carolina leads 37–⁠32–⁠1 in 70 meetings, counting the 63 since this game.

Recent meetings
2012North Carolina 45, Maryland 38
2008Maryland 17, North Carolina 15
2007North Carolina 16, Maryland 13
2005Maryland 33, North Carolina 30
2003Maryland 59, North Carolina 21
2002Maryland 59, North Carolina 7

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