Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The history of Clemson Tigers football began in 1896, when Clemson University first fielded a football team. Since 1896, the program has an all-time record of 790–466–44, with a bowl record of 28–22. The program has achieved 3 claimed national titles in 1981, 2016, and 2018.
They first met on the football field on November 29, 1900. [34] Clemson won the inaugural matchup by a score of 35–0. [35] The Crimson Tide and Tigers met again in 1904 and 1905, with Clemson winning both games. [36] Beginning with the next meeting between the two squads in 1909, Alabama won the next thirteen matchups against Clemson. [36]
FSU would win the national championship that year. The game marks Clemson's single game attendance record. November 18, 2000 - Trailing 14–13 to South Carolina, quarterback Woody Dantzler connects with Rod Gardner on a "Hail Mary" pass with 10 seconds to play, to set up Clemson's game-winning field goal and a score of 16-14. It would be ...
Although rugby is a club sport at Clemson, the team receives significant support from the university and from the Clemson Rugby Foundation, which was founded in 2007 by Clemson alumni. [69] Clemson rugby has been led since 2010 by head coach Justin Hickey, [ 70 ] who has also served as team manager for the U.S. national under-20 team .
Fort Hill, photographed in 1887, was the home of John C. Calhoun and later Thomas Green Clemson and is at the center of the university campus.. Thomas Green Clemson, the university's founder, came to the foothills of South Carolina in 1838, when he married Anna Maria Calhoun, daughter of John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina politician and seventh U.S. Vice President. [15]
The 2008 Clemson Tigers team taking the field at Memorial Stadium.. The Clemson Tigers college football team competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing Clemson University in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney runs onto the field before the North Carolina State game in Clemson, S.C. on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.
On Clemson's death in 1888, he willed the land to the state of South Carolina for the creation of a public university. The university was founded in 1889, and three buildings from the initial construction still exist today: Hardin Hall (built in 1890), Main Building (later renamed Tillman Hall) (1894), and Godfrey Hall (1898). Other periods of ...