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25 years ago today, October 26, 1895, the North Carolina football team played a game against the University of Georgia Bulldogs in Atlanta.

It was the beginning of a four-game and six-day period for the Tar Heels,

squaring off against Vanderbilt, Sawani, and bookended by contests against the Bulldogs.

What might today seem like a pointless recanting of a primitive contest so different from the present game that we all know and love is actually a uniquely knotted tapestry of fact, folklore, and famous names that all center around the game's first forward pass.

I'm Joey Powell, and on this edition of The Backstory from Inside Carolina.com, we'll look at how an unlikely reflexive decision by a Tarheel football player would change the game forever.

In 1895, Thomas Dougie Trenchard was named head coach for the University of North Carolina football team, just two years removed from an All-American playing career at Princeton. They opened the season with a 36 to nothing throttling of

North Carolina A&M, now known as NC State, followed by a 34 to nothing shutout of Richmond

a week later. Both games took place in Chapel Hill prior to the team embarking on a series

of games in Georgia and Tennessee.

The first stop? A game at Piedmont Park in Atlanta against the Georgia Bulldogs.

UGA was coached by a young man who just finished coaching his first stint at Iowa State just weeks

prior, Glenn Scobie Warner. History would remember him as pop. The season would

also be the first for a group of schools unified under what was called the Southern Intercollegiate

Athletic Association, which was founded by Dr. William Dudley, a professor at Vanderbilt. Original

members of this group of schools included Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Sawani, and Vanderbilt.

The conference's original charter stated that its creation was for the development and purification of college athletics throughout the South.

The game kicked off at 3.30 with the Carolinians

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