1958 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

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.

1958 North Carolina Tar Heels football
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
Record	6–4 (4–3 ACC)
Head coach	Jim Tatum (4th season)
Captain	Phil Blazer, Curtis Hathaway
Home stadium	Kenan Memorial Stadium
Seasons ← 1957 1959 →

1958 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 12 Clemson $	5	–	1	–	0			8	–	3	–	0
No. 15 South Carolina	5	–	2	–	0			7	–	3	–	0
Duke	3	–	2	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
North Carolina	4	–	3	–	0			6	–	4	–	0
Maryland	3	–	3	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Wake Forest	2	–	4	–	0			3	–	7	–	0
NC State	2	–	5	–	0			2	–	7	–	1
Virginia	1	–	5	–	0			1	–	9	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll[1]

Two-way end Al Goldstein was named a first-team All-American by the Football Writers Association of America and the NEA.^[2]

This was Tatum's last year as head coach, as he unexpectedly died at age 46 of a typhus-like illness in July 1959.^[3][4] He had a record of 19–17–3 at UNC.^[5]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 20	2:00 p.m.	NC State	No. 10	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)	L 14–21	41,000	[6]
September 27	2:00 p.m.	at Clemson		Memorial Stadium Clemson, SC	L 21–26	40,000	[7]
October 3	11:15 p.m.	at USC*		Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA	W 8–7	43,238	[8]
October 11	2:00 p.m.	South Carolina		Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)	W 6–0	26,000	[9]
October 18	2:00 p.m.	Maryland		Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC	W 27–0	25,000	[10]
October 25	2:00 p.m.	Wake Forest		Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)	W 26–7	33,000	[11]
November 1	2:00 p.m.	at Tennessee*	No. 17	Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN	W 21–7	25,290	[12]
November 8	1:30 p.m.	at Virginia	No. 15	Scott Stadium Charlottesville, VA (South's Oldest Rivalry)	W 42–0	18,000	[13]
November 15	2:00 p.m.	at Notre Dame*	No. 11	Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, IN (rivalry)	L 24–34	56,839	[14]
November 22	2:00 p.m.	Duke	No. 17	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC (Victory Bell)	L 6–7	44,500	[15]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

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