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Clemson University ( / ˈklɛmp.sən, ˈklɛm.zən / [6] [7] [note a]) is a public land-grant research university in Clemson, South Carolina. Founded in 1889, Clemson is the second-largest university by enrollment in South Carolina. [8] For the fall 2023 semester, the university enrolled a total of 22,875 undergraduate students and 5,872 graduate students, [3] and the student/faculty ratio was ...
Clemson sponsors teams in nine men's and twelve women's NCAA sanctioned sports. [11] The first intercollegiate match in Clemson history was a baseball game on April 24, 1896, against Furman. The school's first football team followed that fall. Five women's sports were introduced in 1975 after the passage of Title IX .
The Campus of Clemson University was originally the site of U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun 's plantation, named Fort Hill. The plantation passed to his daughter, Anna, and son-in-law, Thomas Green Clemson. On Clemson's death in 1888, he willed the land to the state of South Carolina for the creation of a public university.
Southern Conference charter members were Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi State, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Tennessee, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Washington & Lee. In 1922, six more universities— Florida, LSU, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane, and Vanderbilt joined the conference.
UCF, West Virginia, Coastal Carolina, ECU and Boston College were among 13 other schools who signed a player from the state ranking higher than Clemson’s Young ( No. 21 ).
The Syms School was founded in 1635, as the first free school in the Americas, but this was not the first attempt at establishing an education system. The first attempt was a move in 1619-1620 by the London Company to begin a school to educate Indian children in Christianity. The second attempt, known as the "East India School", was meant to educate white children in the colony of Virginia. [6 ...
The conference responded with a statement of its own, emphasizing Tuesday it will “vigorously enforce” the ACC grant of rights Clemson agreed to in 2016.
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.