Wake Forest at North Carolina

Saturday, September 30, 1939

North Carolina beat Wake Forest 36–⁠6. It was their 38th meeting; after it, North Carolina led the series 27–⁠4–⁠1 in the games on file.

AwayWake Forest7–⁠3 in 1939
6
HomeNorth Carolina8–⁠1–⁠1 in 1939
36

FinalHigh 92°F, low 71°FAttendance 18,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL SCORES

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 2, 1939, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL SCORES The folIowing are final scores of leading football games played last Saturday afternoon. Pittsburgh 27; University of Washington 6. Oregon State 12: Stanford 0. Montana State 6; Idaho T. Oregon State T. Southern Oalifor- mia ‘, tie. New York University T; Colgate 6. Furman T, Army Is. Purdue 0; Notre Dame 3. Missouri 30; Colorado 0. Arizona 0: Minnesota 62. South Dakota o; Iowa Al. Illinois 0; Bradley 0. Clemson 6; Tulane T. Duke 26; Davidson 6. Virginia Military Institute 0; Kentucky 21. Florida O; Texas 6. Wuttenberg o; Carnegie Tech 35 Wake Forest 6; North Carolina 36. Detroit IA; Western Michigan State 0. Vanderbilt IS; Rice 12 Montana State g: Portland Uni yersity 0. Mississippi IA; Louisiana State T. SUNDAY GAME St. MarY,s IS. Gonzaga 0.

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 76% 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 75 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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