Wake Forest College's Arnold Palmer recalls

early golf memories.

In February 1947, Wake Forest's Demon Deacons challenged the UNC Tarheels on the historic hardwood of Gore Gymnasium.

A photographer filmed the action with a 16mm camera.  After the film was processed, it was handed over to the coaching staff for scouting and practice purposes.  Then this particular copy landed in the hands of Carolina's Bill Miller. 

Miller, a star player who went on to a career in professional basketball and coaching, gave the game film to his daughter, Chris Ramsey.  Ramsey preserved the thirteen minute film and generously shared it with the Wake Forest College Birthplace Society.  The Society maintains a collection of filmed athletic events transferred to disc.

1947 UNC vs. Wake Forest College

Southern Conference Basketball

Wake Forest's Historic District

Golf Legend Arnold Palmer

The two minutes posted here provide a rare glimpse into the world of old Southern Conference basketball, which led to the modern day ACC, as it was lived and played in the college town of Wake Forest, North Carolina.

1939 Wake Forest Film

In 1939, itinerant filmmaker H. Lee Waters arrived in Wake Forest to shoot film of local residents, edit the footage into a feature length movie, and then charge folks to see themselves on the silver screen. 

Waters made many Depression Era films of this sort throughout the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia.  In an article from Duke University's Office of News and Communciations, the films are recognized as historic documents worthy of preservation.

The entire Wake Forest film is preserved in DVD format at the Wake Forest Museum.  This footage, featuring members of the local town and college communities, is just a small sampling of the images shot primarily outside the Wake Forest schools, in the business district on South White Street, and near the college campus. The music is from the 1939 Lomax Field Recordings housed at the Library of Congress.

THE VIDEOS

Wake Forest Historical Museum