The Backstory: Carolina Football Changes the Game

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In episode three of The Backstory, Joey Powell takes a bit of a historical dive into the nineteenth century, to help tell how Ed Gregory and George Stephens connected to chart a different course in the rules of college football. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.9	against the University of Georgia Bulldogs in Atlanta.
0:40.5	It was the beginning of a four-game and six-day period for the Tar Heels,
0:44.6	squaring off against Vanderbilt, Sawani, and bookended by contests against the Bulldogs.
0:50.3	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 nodded tapestry of fact, folklore, and famous names that all center around the game's first forward pass.
1:06.4	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 Tar Heel football player would change the game forever.
1:18.1	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.
1:29.1	They opened the season with a 36 to nothing throttling of North Carolina A&M, now known as
1:34.4	NC State, followed by a 34 to nothing shutout of Richmond a week later.
1:39.3	Both games took place in Chapel Hill prior to the team embarking on a series of games in Georgia and Tennessee.
1:45.8	The first stop? A game at Piedmont Park in Atlanta against the Georgia Bulldogs.
1:51.2	UGA was coached by a young man who just finished coaching his first stint at Iowa State just weeks
1:57.1	prior, Glenn Scobie Warner. History would remember him as pop. The season would also be the
2:03.7	first for a group of schools unified under what was called the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic
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