James Gilbert
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Evolution of College Football Fields
Field Markings 1876-2021
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Did you ever wonder how all those markings on a college football field came to be? Here's an article I published last year that covers 145 years, so it's not a quick read, but there's a table at the end that summarizes all the changes. open.substack.com/pub/jameslee...
@adavidhalejoint.bsky.social Do you know how rare it is for UNC to go winless against Big 4 teams in seasons when they play all three? Well, now you do. (These records don't start until 1921 and are through 2024.)
@joeovies.bsky.social Since Duke didn't play football for a couple of decades at the beginning of the last century there are fewer seasons when the Big 4 played each other than one might think.
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
@adavidhalejoint.bsky.social Do you know how rare it is for UNC to go winless against Big 4 teams in seasons when they play all three? Well, now you do. (These records don't start until 1921 and are through 2024.)
The next UNC-Va Tech football game is scheduled for 2027.
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The next UNC-Va Tech football game is scheduled for 2027.
From 1888-1970 UNC averaged less than 18.7 points per game in 58 seasons. Since 1970, Carolina football has averaged fewer ppg than the 2025 season in:
1978 (Crum)
1989 (Brown)
1999 (Torbush)
2002 (Bunting)
2005 (Bunting)
2006 (Bunting)
1978 (Crum)
1989 (Brown)
1999 (Torbush)
2002 (Bunting)
2005 (Bunting)
2006 (Bunting)
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
From 1888-1970 UNC averaged less than 18.7 points per game in 58 seasons. Since 1970, Carolina football has averaged fewer ppg than the 2025 season in:
1978 (Crum)
1989 (Brown)
1999 (Torbush)
2002 (Bunting)
2005 (Bunting)
2006 (Bunting)
1978 (Crum)
1989 (Brown)
1999 (Torbush)
2002 (Bunting)
2005 (Bunting)
2006 (Bunting)
@joeovies.bsky.social Since Duke didn't play football for a couple of decades at the beginning of the last century there are fewer seasons when the Big 4 played each other than one might think.
November 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
@joeovies.bsky.social Since Duke didn't play football for a couple of decades at the beginning of the last century there are fewer seasons when the Big 4 played each other than one might think.
Reposted by James Gilbert
Amazingly, UNC has only gone 0-3 against the other Big 4 teams 3 times. Obviously, 1988 and 1989. Can you name the other year?
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
@chippatterson.bsky.social @tomfornelli.bsky.social Which non-Mack Brown UNC team went 0-3 against Wake, Duke, and State?
Amazingly, UNC has only gone 0-3 against the other Big 4 teams 3 times. Obviously, 1988 and 1989. Can you name the other year?
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
@chippatterson.bsky.social @tomfornelli.bsky.social Which non-Mack Brown UNC team went 0-3 against Wake, Duke, and State?
Amazingly, UNC has only gone 0-3 against the other Big 4 teams 3 times. Obviously, 1988 and 1989. Can you name the other year?
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Amazingly, UNC has only gone 0-3 against the other Big 4 teams 3 times. Obviously, 1988 and 1989. Can you name the other year?
A) 1898
November 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A) 1898
What the hell is on UVa's helmets?
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
What the hell is on UVa's helmets?
@murphsturph.bsky.social Graves' family is inextricably linked to the history of the University. One of his brothers was also the long time editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly. His mother ran a boarding house on the site of the Carolina Inn after his professor father passed away. See ncpedia.com.
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
@murphsturph.bsky.social Graves' family is inextricably linked to the history of the University. One of his brothers was also the long time editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly. His mother ran a boarding house on the site of the Carolina Inn after his professor father passed away. See ncpedia.com.
@murphsturph.bsky.social Re your logo article, the stair step UNC that the current staff is promoting is not the stair step logo used under Dick Crum. Those letters used the Volta Bold typeface. The University of Northern Colorado football team wore the logo from 1980~2000, and won 2 DII 🏆.
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
@murphsturph.bsky.social Re your logo article, the stair step UNC that the current staff is promoting is not the stair step logo used under Dick Crum. Those letters used the Volta Bold typeface. The University of Northern Colorado football team wore the logo from 1980~2000, and won 2 DII 🏆.
Maybe somebody knows the permutations for the other three.
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Maybe somebody knows the permutations for the other three.
Public records from one school's head coaching search committee accidentally revealed how they're planning to circumvent public records laws during their coaching search
You can probably guess the school from the art, but read it now in this week's FOIAball!
www.foiaball.com/p/virginia-t...
You can probably guess the school from the art, but read it now in this week's FOIAball!
www.foiaball.com/p/virginia-t...
Head coach search committees are dodging accountability
Public records reveal how schools circumvent public records. Oops!
www.foiaball.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Old heads might remember that the University seal was the de facto logo used on business cards and the like before the Well. The new Old Well logo unified the hundreds of versions used by campus groups. I'm sad to see it go. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
Farewell to the Well: UNC adopts interlocking NC as University-wide logo
Individuals who don't have ties to the University aren't able to easily recognize the Old Well logo, Adrienne King, UNC’s associate vice chancellor for marketing, said. The Old Well logo is only 22 ye...
dailytarheel.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Old heads might remember that the University seal was the de facto logo used on business cards and the like before the Well. The new Old Well logo unified the hundreds of versions used by campus groups. I'm sad to see it go. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
Will they upgrade the Woolen Gym showers and locker rooms? (UNC BOT 11/12/2025)
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Will they upgrade the Woolen Gym showers and locker rooms? (UNC BOT 11/12/2025)
Reposted by James Gilbert
UNC has played all the other Big Four teams in the same season 89 times. They've been just as likely to go 1-2 as 3-0. The most frequent outcome is 2 wins and 1 loss. Carolina has been winless in 5 of those 89 seasons. An 0-3 record this year would be the 4th occurrence. #GoHeels #BigFour
November 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
MLB should be looking at umpires.
This is not some kind of bullet dodged. MLB cannot say with any confidence that this behavior didn't change game outcomes
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
MLB should be looking at umpires.
Looks like this list starts with players in the 1920's. I'd add:
Ernest "Pot" Graves (Line) UNC 1897-1900, Army (1905-1921) (Coached Eisenhower at West Point);
Gordon Johnston (Coach) UNC 1896, Army (1898-1934) (Medal of Honor recipient, interred at Arlington National Cemetery) #VeteransDay
Ernest "Pot" Graves (Line) UNC 1897-1900, Army (1905-1921) (Coached Eisenhower at West Point);
Gordon Johnston (Coach) UNC 1896, Army (1898-1934) (Medal of Honor recipient, interred at Arlington National Cemetery) #VeteransDay
A closer look at the new "Honoring Our Military" wall unveiled inside the Kenan Football Center today. "The new installation stands as a powerful reminder of the courage, sacrifice, and selflessness demonstrated by players, coaches, and staff of the Carolina football family who answered the call to
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Looks like this list starts with players in the 1920's. I'd add:
Ernest "Pot" Graves (Line) UNC 1897-1900, Army (1905-1921) (Coached Eisenhower at West Point);
Gordon Johnston (Coach) UNC 1896, Army (1898-1934) (Medal of Honor recipient, interred at Arlington National Cemetery) #VeteransDay
Ernest "Pot" Graves (Line) UNC 1897-1900, Army (1905-1921) (Coached Eisenhower at West Point);
Gordon Johnston (Coach) UNC 1896, Army (1898-1934) (Medal of Honor recipient, interred at Arlington National Cemetery) #VeteransDay
@ncrabbithole.com Not to brag, but I didn't see Oppenheimer (2023) because I had seen Oppenheimer (1980), the PBS miniseries with Sam Waterston as JRO. Did the film mention that Tony Goldwyn's character was the Consolidated University (UNC System) President?
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
@ncrabbithole.com Not to brag, but I didn't see Oppenheimer (2023) because I had seen Oppenheimer (1980), the PBS miniseries with Sam Waterston as JRO. Did the film mention that Tony Goldwyn's character was the Consolidated University (UNC System) President?
In the film Oppenheimer, was it ever mentioned what Tony Goldwyn's character's day job was?
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
In the film Oppenheimer, was it ever mentioned what Tony Goldwyn's character's day job was?
@rl-bynum.bsky.social If you're at the military veterans thing at Kenan tomorrow, can I ask if you'll check for a couple of names. Ernest "Pot" Graves played at UNC then at West Point. Coached at WP. Gordon Johnston played at Princeton; coached at UNC in 1896. MoH recipient, interred at Arlington.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
@rl-bynum.bsky.social If you're at the military veterans thing at Kenan tomorrow, can I ask if you'll check for a couple of names. Ernest "Pot" Graves played at UNC then at West Point. Coached at WP. Gordon Johnston played at Princeton; coached at UNC in 1896. MoH recipient, interred at Arlington.
Ernest Graves' family is inextricably linked to the history of the University. When he coached at West Point, on his team was Cadet Dwight Eisenhower. www.ncpedia.org/biography/gr...
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Ernest Graves' family is inextricably linked to the history of the University. When he coached at West Point, on his team was Cadet Dwight Eisenhower. www.ncpedia.org/biography/gr...
UNC's 1896 coach served in the military after his time at UNC and would receive the Medal of Honor. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_...
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
UNC's 1896 coach served in the military after his time at UNC and would receive the Medal of Honor. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_...