The Atlantic Coast Conference was created in 1953 with seven schools, added an eighth in 1954 and by 1957 had gotten its scheduling worked out to play mostly a round-robin schedule of seven league games per school. In the second year of "Sunny Jim" Tatum's reign over the Carolina program in 1957, the Tar Heels handily dispatched Clemson in the first ACC encounter between the two institutions by a 26-0 score on a cold, rainy afternoon in Kenan Stadium, leaving Tiger coach Frank Howard to talk over his ever-present chaw of tobacco, "I'll tell you what the heck. They just beat us and that's it.
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