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At almost the same moment that North Carolina was beating Trinity, UNC officials were meeting with counterparts from other colleges in Atlanta to help form the Southern Conference. Carolina became a charter member in March, 1921, joining 13 other schools (most of which now belong to the ACC and SEC) to form the nation’s third athletic conference behind the Ivy League and Big Ten. Neither Trinity nor UNC made the trip to Atlanta in 1921 for the first Southern Conference Tournament, which was an extension of an existing tournament and remained open to all comers for the first few years. But the next season, the Tar Heels made their mark with no coach! Carolina’s 1922 team, which was led by Monk McDonald, Billy Carmichael and his brother Cart, lost its opener at the Durham YMCA by the lopsided score of 41-18 before an overflow crowd of 2,000 fans. The “Y’s” giant 6’3” center Myril “Footsie” Knight dominated the game, and he did it again a month later in a rematch in Chapel Hill, leading his team to a similar 21-point pasting.

1922 UNC Team Took Southern Conference Title By Winning Five Games in Five Days in Atlanta