{"id":558538,"date":"2017-12-29T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T19:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=558538"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:57:17","slug":"melee-in-59-helped-heat-up-rivalry-between-tar-heels-deacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=558538","title":{"rendered":"Melee in &#8217;59 helped heat up rivalry between Tar Heels, Deacons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/melee-in-59-helped-heat-up-rivalry-between-tar-heels-deacons\/17220773\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/unc\/2016\/01\/20\/15255778\/pinson_6058-80x120.jpg\" alt=\"North Carolina beats Wake Forest 83-68\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The ACC had only been in existence for three years when players from the University of North Carolina and Wake Forest got into their first spirited brawl, but that 1956 incident was nothing compared to the melee between the two teams in 1959. In between the fights was a narrow Tar Heel win &#8211; and a hotly disputed call &#8211; with mammoth implications. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/melee-in-59-helped-heat-up-rivalry-between-tar-heels-deacons\/17220773\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/melee-in-59-helped-heat-up-rivalry-between-tar-heels-deacons\/17220773\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Melee in &#039;59 helped heat up rivalry between Tar Heels, Deacons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACC had only been in existence for three years when players from the University of North Carolina and Wake Forest got into their first spirited&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921816,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558538\/revisions\/1921816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}