Extra Points Archive: The Giant Killers
Posted Oct 8, 2009
The Jim Hickey era of Tar Heel football in the early 1960s was marked by its 1963 ACC championship and its proclivity to slay some dragons on the national football landscape. Over the eight years of the Hickey regime from 1959-66, Carolina beat Notre Dame, Tennessee, Georgia and Michigan State within the hospitable bosom of Kenan Stadium, then ventured on the road to win at Ohio State and Michigan. Call them "The Giant Killers."
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