Chapel Hill Memories is for anyone who wants to relive and help preserve memories of Chapel Hill. We welcome your recollections of any subject related to Chapel Hill and The University Of North Carolina in written, photo, audio, and video form. We have the ability to scan and transfer photos, audio, and video if you do not. We do not charge for this, and will return your materials within a week.
Send your memories, ideas, photos, and questions to CHMemories@gmail.com.
If you need to mail us something let us know, and we will send you our mailing address.
George Glamack and UNC's First NCAA Tournament
by Charly Mann
George Glamack was the star of the UNC 1940-1941 team. This is first UNC team to make the NCAA tournament.
George Glamack and his famous hook shot
Glamack had limited eyesight due to a tragic football injury in high-school, yet he had perhaps the best hook-shot in basketball history. He was named the National Basketball Player of the Year in both 1940 and 1941.
The 1941 NCAA tournament had only eight teams. UNC played in the East Quarterfinal game in Madison, Wisconsin on March 21, 1941 against Pittsburgh. The UNC coach was Bill Lange.
UNC set a milestone in its first NCAA game that has stood the test of time; the lowest points ever scored in a NCAA tournament game: 20.
The final score was:
Pittsburgh 26 UNC 20
George Glamack on right
At the end of 1941, when the United States declared war on Japan and Germany, Glamack wanted to join the Navy. When he was asked by a Navy medical examiner to read an eye chart, Glamack responed to him, "I can't". The examiner then told him to get closer to the chart, and try to read it. Glamack's eyesight was so bad that he could not see the chart and walked into the wall. Glamrack pleaded with the examiner to accept him into the Navy, and they did.
George Glamack died in 1987.
Comments:
Craig Barns
1:09 PM Mon 3/23/2009
Thank you for keeping alive the history of the greatest place on earth.
Bill Chapin
8:46 AM Mon 3/23/2009
I wonder how Glamack would do today at Carolina. I'd say to today's team, let's win one for Glamrack.
Donna Sprunt
7:19 PM Sun 3/22/2009
What an inspiring story!
Helen Redfern
5:08 PM Sun 3/22/2009
I do no think that UNC is particularly proud of the NCAA scoring record that you site.
Tarbaby
2:51 PM Sun 3/22/2009
I must admit I've been a rabid Tarheel fan for twenty some years, and I had never heard of Glamack. I go about as far back as Michael Jordan in Carolina history..
Check out our other website:
Investment strategies and advice about Apple Inc. and related technology companies by Charly Mann. www.appleinvesting.com
Investment strategies and advice about Apple Inc. and related technology companies by Charly Mann. www.appleinvesting.com
Chapel Hill is located on a hill whose only distinguishing feature in the 18th century was a small chapel on top called New Hope Chapel. This church was built in 1752 and is currently the location of The Carolina Inn. The town was founded in 1819, and chartered in 1851.
What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well or the bell or the stone walls. or the crisp October nights. No, our love for this place is based upon the fact that it is as it was meant to be, The University of the People.
-- Charles Kuralt
Dark Side of the Hill -- Pink Floyd, the creators of the most popular album in history, Dark Side of the Moon, took the second half of their name from Floyd Council, a Chapel Hill native, and great blues singer and guitarist. He once belonged to a group called "The Chapel Hillbillies".
Check out Charly Mann's other website:
Oklahoma Birds and Butterflies
http://oklahomabirdsandbutterflies.com
Oklahoma Birds and Butterflies
http://oklahomabirdsandbutterflies.com
There would probably be no Chapel Hill if the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees in 1793 had not chosen land across from New Hope Chapel for the location of the university. By 1800 there were about 100 people living in thirty houses surrounding the campus.
The University North Carolina's first student was Hinton James, who enrolled in February, 1795. There is now a dormitory on the campus named in his honor.
The University of North Carolina was closed from 1870 to 1875 because of lack of state funding.
William Ackland left his art collection and $1.25 million to Duke University in 1940 on the condition that he would be buried in the art museum that the University was to build with his bequest. Duke rejected this condition even though members of the Duke Family are buried in Duke Chapel. What followed was a long and acrimonious legal battle between Ackland relatives who now wanted the inheritance, Rollins College, and the University of North Carolina, each attempting to receive the funds. The case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, and in 1949 UNC was awarded the money for the museum. Ackland is buried near the museum's entrance. When the museum first opened, in the early sixties, there were rumors that his remains were leaking out of the mausoleum.
The official name of the Arboretum on the University of North Carolina campus is the Coker Arboretum. It is named after Dr. William Cocker, the University's first botany professor. It occupies a little more than five acres. It was founded in 1903.
Chapel Hill's main street has always been called Franklin Street. It was named after Benjamin Franklin in the early 1790s.
Chapel Hill High School and Chapel Hill Junior High were on Franklin Street in the same location as University Square until the mid 1960s.
The Colonial Drug Store at 450 West Franklin Street was owned and operated by John Carswell. It was famous for a fresh-squeezed carbonated orange beverage called a "Big O". In the early 1970s, I managed the Record and Tape Center next door, and must have had over 100 of those drinks. The Colonial Drug Store closed in 1996.
Sutton's Drugstore, which opened in 1923, has one of the last soda fountains in the South. It is one of the few businesses remaining on Franklin Street that was in operation when I was growing up in the 1950s.
Future President Gerald Ford lived in Chapel Hill twice. First when he was 24, in 1938, he took a law couse in summer school at UNC. He lived in the Carr Building, which was a law school dormitory. At the same time, Richard Nixon, the man he served under as Vice President, was attending law school at Duke. In 1942, Ford returned to Chapel Hill to attend the U.S. Navy's Pre-Flight School training program. He lived in a rental house on Hidden Hills Drive.
Use Coupon Code chapelhillmemories to receive a $9.94 discount!
I'm glad to learn the tradition of great Carolina B-ball goes back to my grandparent's time.