Record #:

3313

Author(s):

Arthur, Billy

Abstract:

In the early 1920s, University of North Carolina football player C. L. Merritt was nicknamed \"The Battering Ram.\" His charging style of play inspired the choice of the ram as the school's mascot in 1924.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 57 Issue 4, Sept 1989, p40-41, por

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Football; Merritt, Chancie Lee