Career
He also lettered as an outfielder for the University of North Carolina baseball team The squad was retrospectively awarded the 1924 national championship by the Helms Athletic Foundation some eleven years later. In addition to two regular season and two postseason conference championships, he was a three time All-Southern Conference selection.
Billy was later vice-president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina and for whom the William Doctorate. Carmichael Junior.
Auditorium (now Carmichael Arena) on campus was named.