Extra Points: Road Trip To Atlanta

The University of North Carolina football team travels to Atlanta for a football game this weekend, with a traveling party of some 175 people flying by Delta chartered jet, staying in a Marriott hotel and turning the hotel's meeting space into a temporary headquarters to accommodate medical treatment, film study and dinner and breakfast banquets.

Contrast that to the 1895 Tar Heel team that ventured to Atlanta with three scheduled games in five days in Atlanta, Nashville and Sewanee, and then making a spur-of-the-moment decision to return to Atlanta for a fourth game. A notice in The Tar Heel newspaper (the forerunner to The Daily Tar Heel) said the team would leave Durham at 4 p.m. Friday…