Young stands alone in second, though, when it comes to postseason accolades, as he coached one of the three Catamount teams to make a postseason appearance. 418 winning percentage over ten seasons is tied with Bill Bleil (1997-2001) for third-best in team history. The next season, Tom Young was hired to coach the team, and his. After taking a hiatus during the 1942-1944 seasons, the team returned with a short 1-3 1945 campaign. On the gridiron, neither he nor his two successors found much acclaim on the gridiron, winning just 20 games in eleven season for a. Much like Tech’s first athletics-related employee, he would go on to coach a bevy of sports and also lead the department as a whole. Poindexter, the man who essentially served as their John Heisman-lite figure. The Western Carolina football team First competed in 1931, led by C.C. While the school is an integral part of the UNC system today after evolving past the teachers college focus and into a modern university by about 1970, this critical name change in 1929 is likely what can be considered the start of the modern era of the university, as well as where sports, particularly football, come into the picture. By the middle of the next decade, the school was absorbed by the state government, and briefly held a few names before transitioning completely to the post-secondary level and settling on the Western Carolina Teachers College. Those efforts were not in vain, and in 1893, the state legislature made the school the first state-supported normal - the era-specific name for teacher training - school. It didn’t take long for the Cullowhee Academy to evolve, though, as the vision for the school was not only to educate the people of the western part of the state, but also to secure state support for the training of teachers. More radically different from Tech’s roots as a trade-centric mechanical engineering one-stop shop, WCU’s origins as an academy high school, named Cullowhee Academy after the town in which it is located, are quite interesting, given that it is certainly a fully-fledged university today. Western Carolina University as a whole, interestingly, is roughly the same age as Georgia Tech, having been founded in 1889.
Western Carolina in this week’s venue: 5-0-0 (1.000)
Bowl Appearances: 1 - (Smokey Mountain Bowl, 1949).FCS Playoff Appearances: 1 (1983 - Runner Up).Conference: Southern Conference (1976 - present).We will dive into that, as well as their history in general, as much as the access to information gap between FCS and FBS programs will allow.įortunately, this week, my database of digitizing the results, location, attendance, and season scenario of every historic Tech game is complete, so there will at the very least be one new figure included in this week’s edition. Unlike many of the opponents on our schedule this year, Western Carolina is not, dare I say, all that regular of a feature on the Tech schedule, though certainly not a completely unfamiliar face, either. We return this week to the historical lens with a team that is new to the historic team spotlight.
With this being their first meeting in the history of this feature on the site, we’ll be taking a more traditional look at the complete history of our opponents today, given that most may be unfamiliar with it. Western Carolina will visit Georgia Tech for the sixth time today, the first meeting between the two teams since 2011.
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