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Roy Homewood

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Roy Homewood
Homewood c. 1916
Biographical details
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina
Playing career
1914-16North Carolina
Position(s)End
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1919North Carolina (assistant)
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
2x All-Southern (1914, 1915)

Roy M. Homewood was a college football player and coach.

University of North Carolina

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Homewood was a prominent end for the North Carolina Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina.[1][2][3] He was selected for an all-time Carolina football team in 1934.[4] He was selected All-Southern in 1915.[5] He also played on the baseball and track teams. In 1919 he helped coach the ends on the Tar Heel football teams.[6][7] One Dr. R. B. Lawson picked Homewood as an end on his all-time North Carolina football team.[8]

World War 1

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He achieved a lieutenancy during the First World War.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Parke H. Davis (1916). "National Stars of the Gridiron". St. Nicholas:An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks. 43: 58.
  2. ^ "Logan Cunningham Shaping Backfield". Richmond Times-Dispatch. November 19, 1914.
  3. ^ "The Thanksgiving Day Game". Carolina Alumni Review: 73.
  4. ^ "All-Time Carolina Football Team Selected". Carolina Alumni Review. 22 (6): 168. March 1934.
  5. ^ Dick Jemison (November 30, 1915). "Composite All-Southern Of Ten Of The Dopesters". Atlanta Constitution.
  6. ^ a b "N. MAJORITY SAW OVERSEAS DUTY". The Daily Tar Heel. November 27, 1919.
  7. ^ "Hard Practice At Football". Carolina Alumni Review. 8 (1): 8. October 1919.
  8. ^ "'All-Time' UNC Teams Compared". Carolina Alumni Review: 14. December 1969.