Extra Points: War Stories

University of North Carolina Athletics

November 11, 2026 | Football

Today Graham Court Condominiums are comprised of two century-old brick buildings sitting in the leafy McCauley Street neighborhood just west of the Carolina campus. Bebe Johns Fox was a young girl living there in the early 1940s, when newspapers were full of coverage of World War II and Chapel Hill was invaded by thousands of young men preparing to go to battle.

One of the newcomers to town made quite an impression.

"I'll never forget that handsome Paul Bryant, who I passed one morning as he was walking from his apartment toward his car parked on McCauley Street," Fox remembered years later. "He was dressed in his navy-blue…