Bill Folger
North Carolina Tar Heels
PositionHalfback/Fullback
ClassGraduate
Career history
CollegeNorth Carolina (1916)
Career highlights and awards

Augustine William Folger was an American college football player.

University of North Carolina

Folger was a prominent running back for the North Carolina Tar Heels football of the University of North Carolina. One Dr. R. B. Lawson picked Folger as a second-team fullback on his all-time North Carolina football team.[1][2]

1916

Folger starred in the game against conference champion Georgia Tech.[3] Davidson would have defeated North Carolina had it not been for a 61-yard touchdown run from Folger.[4] On November 13, he completed one of the most significant plays in the early history of the Carolina football program,[5][6] a 52-yard touchdown run in the third quarter against Virginia. He was taken out in the fourth quarter when he showed signs of overwork.[7] It was the first defeat of Virginia for the Tar Heels since 1905, and its first touchdown against its rival since 1913.[8] He was selected All-Southern.[9] Folger was elected captain for 1917.[10][11] Due to the First World War, the school had only no varsity football that year.[12]

Thomas Wolfe

He briefly shared a flat with author Thomas Wolfe in New York in 1923, who based the character of Jim Randolph in The Web and the Rock on Folger.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ "'All-Time' UNC Teams Compared". Carolina Alumni Review: 14. December 1969.
  2. ^ "All-Time Carolina Football Team Selected". Carolina Alumni Review. 22 (6): 168. March 1934.
  3. ^ "Georgia Tech In Hard Fought Game Beats Carolina". Asheville Citizen. October 22, 1916. p. 28. Retrieved April 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^ "Folger Fives Win To North Carolina". The Twin-City Daily Sentinel. November 13, 1916. p. 7. Retrieved April 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ Adam Powell (2006). University of North Carolina Football. p. 13. ISBN 9780738542881.
  6. ^ Thomas Wolfe (2008). The Magical Campus:University of North Carolina Writings 1917-1920. p. 102. ISBN 9781570037344.
  7. ^ "Folger the Main Feature". Winstom-Salem Journal. December 1, 1916. p. 1. Retrieved April 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  8. ^ "Third Quarter–Folger's 52YD. Run For Touchdown". The Daily Tar Heel. December 2, 1916. p. 5. Retrieved April 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  9. ^ Intercollegiate Athletic Calendar. Vol. 1. 1917. p. 167.
  10. ^ "Folger captain, Armstrong manager". The Alumni Review. 5. University of North Carolina. December 1916.
  11. ^ "Folger Elected Captain Carolina Football Team". The Daily Tar Heel. December 16, 1916. p. 1. Retrieved April 11, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  12. ^ "University of North Carolina ... football blue book for press and radio". 1956. p. 31.
  13. ^ M. C. Rintoul (5 March 2014). Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction. p. 417. ISBN 9781136119408 – via Google books. Open access icon
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