UNC-Chapel Hill celebrates 100 years of basketball this year. I found this photo in the 1911 Yackety Yack, the student yearbook, showing the first varsity “Basket Ball Squad.”
There wasn’t anything else about them in the yearbook – no comments, no scores, not even a list of their names. UNC was still very much a football school at the time.
The team has worn throwback uniforms a couple of times this season. I hope, before the year is over, they bring back the sashes.
The roster for the 1911 team, and all the others, can be found at: http://www.tarheeltimes.com/rosterbasketball-2009.aspx
Matching names to faces will take some digging in the Yackety Yacks for 1911-1915. I did it a quick look, and it appears that most of the players were underclassmen.
I’ve identified every UNC team picture from 1911-2011 for a book on which I have been working covering the history of UNC basketball. The book will have lots of never seen before photos and memorabilia. Identifying the team pictures was especially difficult.
Good to hear from you Ron. I hope you will keep us posted on when your book will be available.
Ron’s book came out in July 2021. You can check it out at http://www.thetarheelbook.com