Georgia at North Carolina

Saturday, October 1, 1949

North Carolina beat Georgia 21–⁠14. It was their 12th meeting; after it, Georgia led the series 6–⁠5–⁠1.

AwayGeorgia4–⁠6–⁠1 in 1949
14
HomeNorth Carolina7–⁠4 in 1949
21

FinalHigh 77°F, low 42°FAttendance 44,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Justice and Weiner Provide Big Punch In Tar Heel Triumph

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 2, 1949, page 38

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    Justice and Weiner Provide Big Punch In Tar Heel Triumph By the Asseeiofsd Press CHAPEL HILL, N. c., Oct. L. North Carolina’s football forces landed their Sunday punches All-America Tailback Charley JUS tice and End Art Weiner-three times today for a 21–⁠14 victory over Georgia. 1t was Weiner who supplied the finishing blow to the Georgians. It came just after the Bulldogs had stunned the crowd of $4,000 in Kenan Stadium by pulling into 14–⁠14 tie. with two minutes and 20 seconds to 60. on Halfback Eli Maracich’s 88-yard touchdown run with a punt and End Bob Wal ston’s conversion. North Carolina shook off the sting Of that and moved right back. Sophomore Tailback Skeet Hesmer ran the Georgia KICKOFF from his IS to the 81. Hesmer failed on two passes, but Justice picked up the reins and connected with Fullback Billy Hayes on . screen pass for 80 yards to the Georgia 80. Weiner Scores Clincher. On the next play, Hayes shot a pass to Weiner, who caught the ball at the 20, wriggled away from Maracich and breezed over with the deciding touchdown. Tackle Able Williams added the third of his three tries for extra points. Up until Maracich dashed through the whole North Carolina team on his long trip to Georgia’s second touchdown, Justice and his Tarheel mates had kept the game we’ll in control. They stopped two Georgia threats in the second period-one at their and another at their 12-and cranked up their own scoring machinery for a pair OF touchdowns and q 40 lead. Weiner scored the first Of these, on a pass from Justice that COW cred eight yards, and Justice him self choo-chooed IS yards for the second. Georgia’s first touchdown came On a tremendous pass from Quarterback Ray Prospect to Walston. The play was good for so yards. Walston kicked the point. Justice the Workhorse. It was a case of just too much Justice and Weiner for the Georgians, and it takes only peek at the individual statistics to show why. The 165-pound Justice was the workhorse of the Tar Heel attack. He threw IA passes and completed nine for a total Of lis yards; he carried the ball 81 times for net of IS yards, and punted II times for an average of 45.9 yards. One of those punts-good for so yards pulled the Tar Heels out OF a bad situation that had left them perched on their own 1-yard line. On North Carolina’s first scoring march, Justice handled the bali on five of the six plays it took; on the second, he handled the ball on 10 of 13 plays. At one stretch, he completed seven sue cessive passes. Weiner caught six passes for a total of 103 yards-and don’t for get his two touchdowns. In additon, the hawk-nosed end was a strong boy in the Tar Heels defense. Left ends-walstom. Chandler. McManus. Left suards-Love. Greer. oreenway. Bur- Risht suardsNPayns, Pope. Madray. Prin- Risit tackles-Yelvinston. ,cambell. ouarterbacks-Prosperi, Cook, Field. Left halfbaeks-Mixon’ McHusn’ srunson’ Risht haifeacks.zMeHush. Marieich’ Heb ruIlbys,ck@sodine. GEy, naDfs nee’G Finitski. Ford. NORTH CAROLINA. Left ends-Weiner. OBrien, Bledsoe. Left tackles-Hansen, wiley. King. Will Left suards-Dudeck. wardle, Mcdonald. Centers-Holdash, Neikirk. Stevens. Right suards-stevens, RyWak Dudeck’ Right tackles-Kuhn. Hendrick, Wiley, Right ends-Poweli. Washington. Bilbueh. observation-disclosures, Rizzo, Knox, Ko- Left halfoacks-verchick, Justice. Bunt- Right t’ halfb.cks-shermsa. CAN’T. Nor ruilbaeks-weiss, Hayes. sss5si.c Sssss c.ro,,n. .----e : 7 III GeorRia scoring: Touchdowns-Walston. Maricich. Points after touchdowns- Moth Carolina scoring: Touchdowns--i Weiner t2), Justice. Points after touch down-Williams t3). / Georgia. NC. First downs -. .s ,5522 Net yards gained rushing--- 1876 139 Forward passes attempted ~ Forward passes Completed g IL Yards forward passing ---- 12a 1o2 Forwards Intercepted by Yards gained run back inter- 90 ss:|s: s;Rs::s: :y::..; ;:.,;.:, s. f.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: ARMY, MICHIGAN TO MEET ON SATURDAY.; WEEKEND ROUNDUP

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 3, 1949, page 6 (results column)

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    ARMY, MICHIGAN TO MEET ON SATURDAY.; WEEKEND ROUNDUP (By Ufle ASSOCldJeQ FTeSSJ Army and Michigan, two of the nations college football titans, clash i, in an old time Donnybrook Satur- day at Ann Arbor. Although this probably will rate as the No. l fracas of the day several other tilts are calculated to hoist the tlood pressure. For in- stance: Texas and Oklahoma. Ohio State and Southern Califor- mia at Los Angeles. And down in Baltimore, re- juvenated Navy eleven tackles Duke. There are plenty of others on top, too. West Points new team, showing no signs of weakness through gradu- ation, plastered Penn State last week, APT. Michigan carved out a 27–⁠7 verdict over Stanford Ohio State continued its high scoring antics by submerging In- diana, 46–⁠7, and Southern Cali fornia had no trouble downing Washington State, 35–⁠7. For the second week in row, Duke came through flying, pasting Tennessee 21–⁠7. Navy’s young Mid shipmen overpowered Princeton, 28–⁠7. Notre Dame polished off Wash ington 27–⁠7. Minnesota entertains North western in one of the mid-west’s major frays. Minnesota sank Ne braska, 28–⁠6, last week, while Pittsburgh scored the days major upset by knocking off Northwest ern’s Rose Bowl champs, l6–⁠7 In the deep South, Tulane rolled over Georgia Tech, 18–⁠0. North Carolina took a 21–⁠14 ver- dict over Georgia. In the Southwest, Southern Methodist remained among the un- beaten by outlasting Missouri, 28–⁠27 FROM CHICAGO William D. Burke of Chicago is registered at the Baranof Hotel.

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 64% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Georgia leads 16–⁠6–⁠2 in 24 meetings, counting the 12 since this game.

Recent meetings
2016Georgia 33, North Carolina 24
1971Georgia 7, North Carolina 3Gator Bowl
1966Georgia 28, North Carolina 3
1965Georgia 47, North Carolina 35
1964Georgia 24, North Carolina 8
1963North Carolina 28, Georgia 7

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