The 1958 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1958 college football season. The Tar Heels were led by fourth-year head coach Jim Tatum and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. The team competed as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in fourth.
Two-way end Al Goldstein was named a first-team All-American by the Football Writers Association of America and the NEA.
This was Tatum's last year as head coach, as he unexpectedly died at age 46 of a typhus-like illness in July 1959.Jim Tatum Dies at 46 from Virus; N. Carolina Coach Succumbs after 10 Day Illness, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 24, 1959."Jim Tatum's Disease Likened To Typhus", The Baltimore Sun, March 31, 1960. He had a record of 19–17–3 at UNC.
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