If It's Fall, It's Football: NC Football-- Part 2

Trinity (Duke), Wake Forest and Guilford once banned intercollegiate football, but reinstated it. College football continues to grow in fan interest and financial terms. In short, the game brings in big money for the colleges.

North Carolina college football became nationally prominent in 1931 with the arrival of Wallace Wade at Duke and the 1934 arrival of Carl Snavely at UNC. Duke hosted the California-based Rose Bowl on 1 Jan. 1942 because of fears of possible Japanese attack on the West Coast.

The post-World War II exlosion nof college enrollment, thanks to the GI Loan swept the nation and NC. The exploits of UNC halfback Charlie "Choo-Choo" Justice (1946-1949) pushed the UNC program and he later played in the NFL.

Then, Duke, UNC, Wake Forest and NC State were charter members in the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953.

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