It was an onerous and painful three-game stretch late in the fall of 1975 for Carolina's football team. A team with only seven seniors dropped consecutive games in Kenan Stadium to East Carolina 38-17, Wake Forest 21-9 and Clemson 38-35 on the way to a 3-7-1 season. It was the only hiccup in the decade-long tenure of Coach Bill Dooley once his program started winning in 1969.
"We heard the boo-birds," remembers Alan Caldwell, a sophomore safety that year. "Those of us who were left, we took a pledge to never let happen again on our watch in Kenan Stadium.