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1938 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ55264306 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1938 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1938 college football season. The Tar Heels were led by third-year head coach Raymond Wolf and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. They competed as a member of the Southern Conference.

Team co-captain and tackle Steve Maronic was selected as a first-team All-American by the Central Press Association, and a second-team All-American by Newsweek, NEA, and United Press.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1938 North Carolina Tar Heels football team” is american college football team season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through North, Carolina and Heels, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, North, Carolina and Heels is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1938 North Carolina Tar Heels football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.