Pace: The Hang Man

Posted Oct 25, 2013
This story first appeared in Tar Heel Monthly in the spring of 2011, after Chris Hanburger had been named for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Hanburger was on the 1963 Carolina football team that won the Gator Bowl. That team will celebrate its 50th-year anniversary with a reunion this weekend in Chapel Hill. (GoHeels.com)

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