North Carolina at Miami

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, December 2, 1952, page 14

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  North Carolina Is Due 10 Decide Snave|y’s Future Tonight CHAPEL HILL, N. c., Dec. o. The football future of Carl Snavely. North Carolina’s head coach. may be decided when the schools Athletic Council meets here tonight. The status of the veteran men, tor has been undecided since late in the, 1851 campaign, with re- Iports of his custer or resignation gaining strength during this year. s losing Tar Heel performances. North Carolina piled up an H. game losing string, longest in the schools history, this year and last. After defeating South Carolima several weeks ago, the Tai Heels won their second and most impressive victory of an eight game schedule last Friday when they walloped favored Miami, 34–⁠7 Faculty, alumni and student body have equal representation or the nine-man council which meet. here tonight. Tatum Often Mentioned. Until recently, Jim Tatum, heac coach of Maryland. had been the most prominently mentioned sue. Icessor to Snavely. However, some of the steam went out of those speculations after the Terps dropped a pair of games to Mis-. Isissippi and Alabama at the enc of the season. George Barclay, Snavely’s back field assistant and former heac coach at Washington and Lee was pointed out by a university source as a possible replacement for Snavely. Barclay, a former star ineman at North Carolina under Snavely during the mid 30s was given a two-year contract when he was brought up to helr install the split-T formation after he won Southern Conference championship at W&L. The con. tract still has a year to run and he could be slipped into the head coaching spot on a make-good basis. Guepe Among Possibilities. Other possibilities mentioned have Art Guepe of Virginia, John ny Vaught of Mississippi and jim Gill, Snavely’s veteran assistant Snavely. whose last three team; have won only Z Of % games, ha. Ino contract with the university having preferred to work on 9 |year-to-year basis. In all, Snavely has coached the Tar Heels for IL years. taking teams to the Sugar Bowl in 1916 and 1948 and to the Cotton Bowl in 1949.

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Officially, North Carolina leads 14–⁠11; as played, 16–⁠11 in 27 meetings, counting the 25 since this game.