Wake Forest at North Carolina

Saturday, September 24, 1932

Wake Forest and North Carolina tied 0–⁠0. It was their 31st meeting; after it, North Carolina led the series 20–⁠4–⁠1 in the games on file.

AwayWake Forest3–⁠3–⁠2 in 1932
0
HomeNorth Carolina3–⁠5–⁠2 in 1932
0

FinalHigh 83°F, low 65°F, 0.3 in. of rainAttendance 7,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: FIRST DOWNS USELESS North Carolina Gets 12, But Wake Forest, With None, Ties, 90.

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., September 25, 1932, page 49

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    FIRST DOWNS USELESS North Carolina Gets 12, But Wake Forest, With None, Ties, 90. CHAPEL HILL, N. c.. September “a LP).-North Carolina rolled up dozen first downs against none for Wake For est in their opening foot ball game today but the Deacon defense baked every scoring threat, and the game end ed ScorelesS Groom got away for a 45-yard run across Wake Forests goal in the first period but the play was called back because a Carolina man was offside. Wake Forest never held the ball Of tensively in Tar Heel territory, while, on the other hand, the Deacon goal was threatened seriously half dozen times

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 72% to win.

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 82 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

Around this game

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