In honor of our upcoming game, we look back at USC's history with the Pirates of East Carolina University.
"I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east." Charles Dickens, Bleak House.
History.
The Old North State's third largest university, established in 1907 as a teacher's college, did not graduate any male students until 1932 - so its not surprising that ECU's football program only started in the fall of '32. After the usual early growing pains, the ECU Pirates soon established themselves as a tough nut to crack on the Carolinas' small college circuit.