Bunn Hackney

Bunn Hackney
Career information
College	North Carolina (1924–1927)
Position	Guard
Career highlights and awards
	All-Southern (1926, 1927); SoCon champion (1925, 1926);

Bunn Hackney was a college basketball and football player for the North Carolina Tar Heels. He was an All-Southern running guard on the basketball team, with Jack Cobb.[1][2][3] He had previously played for Myril "Footsie" Knight at the YMCA in Durham.[4] The origin story for the Rameses mascot is his rubbing a ram's head prior to making a 30-yard drop kick to defeat VMI 3-0 in 1924. [5] He was later a referee in both sports; a head linesman in football.[6]

References

"January 15, 1927 (vol. 37, iss. 80) - Image 6". Michigan Daily Digital Archives.
"History of the Early Southern Conference Atlanta Basketball Tournament". www.bigbluehistory.net.
"The Cross & Crescent". August 3, 1929 – via Google Books.
Chansky, Art (April 1, 2007). "Blue Blood: Duke-Carolina: Inside the Most Storied Rivalry in College Hoops". Macmillan – via Google Books.
Powell, Adam (August 3, 2006). "University of North Carolina Football". Arcadia Publishing – via Google Books.
https://ocr.lib.ncsu.edu/ocr/ua/ua015_010-008-bx0101-026-001/ua015_010-008-bx0101-026-001.pdf

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[1] "January 15, 1927 (vol. 37, iss. 80) - Image 6". Michigan Daily Digital Archives.

[2] "History of the Early Southern Conference Atlanta Basketball Tournament". www.bigbluehistory.net.

[3] "The Cross & Crescent". August 3, 1929 – via Google Books.

[4] Chansky, Art (April 1, 2007). "Blue Blood: Duke-Carolina: Inside the Most Storied Rivalry in College Hoops". Macmillan – via Google Books.

[5] Powell, Adam (August 3, 2006). "University of North Carolina Football". Arcadia Publishing – via Google Books.

[6] ttps://ocr.lib.ncsu.edu/ocr/ua/ua015_010-008-bx0101-026-001/ua015_010-008-bx0101-026-001.pdf