Year: | 1958 |
Team: | North Carolina Tar Heels |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Atlantic Coast Conference |
Short Conf: | ACC |
Record: | 6–4 |
Conf Record: | 4–3 |
Head Coach: | Jim Tatum |
Hc Year: | 4th |
Captain: | Phil Blazer, Curtis Hathaway |
Stadium: | Kenan Memorial Stadium |
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.[1]
This was Tatum's last year as head coach, as he unexpectedly died at age 46 of a typhus-like illness in July 1959.[2] [3] He had a record of 19–17–3 at UNC.[4]