1958 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

1958 North Carolina Tar Heels football
ConferenceAtlantic Coast Conference
Record6–4 (4–3 ACC)
Head coach
CaptainPhil Blazer, Curtis Hathaway
Home stadiumKenan Memorial Stadium
Seasons
← 1957
1959 →
1958 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 12 Clemson $ 5 1 0 8 3 0
No. 15 South Carolina 5 2 0 7 3 0
Duke 3 2 0 5 5 0
North Carolina 4 3 0 6 4 0
Maryland 3 3 0 4 6 0
Wake Forest 2 4 0 3 7 0
NC State 2 5 0 2 7 1
Virginia 1 5 0 1 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll[1]

The 1958 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1958 college football season. The Tar Heels were led by fourth-year head coach Jim Tatum and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. The team competed as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in fourth.

Two-way end Al Goldstein was named a first-team All-American by the Football Writers Association of America and the NEA.[2]

This was Tatum's last year as head coach, as he unexpectedly died at age 46 of a typhus-like illness in July 1959.[3][4] He had a record of 19–17–3 at UNC.[5]

  1. ^ "1958 Atlantic Coast Conference Year Summary". sports-reference.com. Retrieved January 17, 2013.
  2. ^ "2016 North Carolina football media guide" (PDF). North Carolina Athletic Communications Office. p. 120.
  3. ^ Jim Tatum Dies at 46 from Virus; N. Carolina Coach Succumbs after 10 Day Illness, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 24, 1959.
  4. ^ "Jim Tatum's Disease Likened To Typhus", The Baltimore Sun, March 31, 1960.
  5. ^ "2016 North Carolina football media guide" (PDF). North Carolina Athletic Communications Office. p. 158.