In the process, he leapfrogged Don McCauley and Kelvin Bryant into the No. 5 spot on the school's all-time rushing list with his 3,327 yards on the ground as a Tar Heel. On Sunday, the UNC ...
He was tied for first in the ACC with 15 rushing touchdowns. Hampton sits just behind Don McCauley for the UNC single-season rushing yards record, as McCauley posted 1,720 in 1970. Hampton joined ...
Hampton carried the football a career-high 33 times and set a new career-high with 244 rushing yards, in addition to scoring a fourth-quarter touchdown that extended UNC’s lead to two possessions.
Plus, the 6-foot-2, 220-pounder from Clayton, N.C., enters the UNC football squad's Saturday night showdown with 3,083 career rushing yards, needing only 90 more to leapfrog Don McCauley at No.
That fun feeling was prevalent Saturday as Hampton moved to fifth among UNC’s all-time leading rushers with 3,327 yards, jumping Don McCauley and Kelvin Bryant in the program’s record book.
Hampton is only the third running back at North Carolina to run for 200 yards in a game three times, joining Mike Voight and Amos Lawrence. The history for Hampton didn’t stop there. He moved into a ...
UNC running back Omarion Hampton ran the ball 35 times for 244 yards in Saturday’s game. He caught five passes. It was like old-school football from Carolina’s past, with Don McCauley or Mike ...