Victory Bell

The Victory Bell is the prize awarded to the winner of the UNC-Duke football game each year. Cheerleaders from UNC and Duke came up with the idea in 1948, most likely inspired by the tradition of traveling trophies exchanged by other college rivals. The large bell was obtained from an old railroad e...

Fencing

Fencing was a club sport at Carolina as early as the 1930s, when intramural matches were held in Memorial Hall. As interest in the sport grew in the 1960s, the university hired Ron Miller to come to Carolina to start a team. The reputation of the sport may not have been particularly high at the time...

Cheers

When UNC began participating in intercollegiate sports in the 1890s, students developed a series of school cheers for the games and pep rallies. Unlike the alma mater and other school songs, the "university yells" were not set to music. Among the most popular was the "Yackety Yack," ...

Stacy Residence Hall

Stacy Residence Hall was completed as a men's dormitory in 1938, one of several new dorms built at the time using funds from the Public Works Administration. It is named for Marvin Hendrix Stacy, a math professor at Carolina who served briefly as acting president of the school after the death of...