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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.
Clemson was selected to the third College Football Playoff as the second seed and defeated the third seed Ohio State on December 31, 2016, in the 2016 PlayStation Fiesta Bowl. The Tigers defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide in the national championship games in both 2017 and 2019. Clemson has a 6–4 record in playoff games through the 2019 season.
Founded in 1889, Clemson is the second-largest university by enrollment in South Carolina. For the fall 2023 semester, the university enrolled a total of 22,875 undergraduate students and 5,872 graduate students, and the student/faculty ratio was 15:1. Clemson's 1,400-acre (570 ha) campus is in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Clemson's short-lived field hockey program operated from 1977 until 1981. The team had one All-American selection, Barbie Johnson in 1981. Swimming & Diving. The Tigers men's swimming & diving team was established in 1919, and won the Southern Conference championship in 1939, and the ACC team championship in 1986.
In the early 1980s, Bill Shearer led the American Independent Party into the Populist Party. From 1992 to 2008, the American Independent Party was the California affiliate of the national Constitution Party , formerly the U.S. Taxpayers Party, whose founders included the late Howard Phillips .
Clemson has played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina since 1942. [1] The Tigers have three national championship titles ( 1981, 2016 and 2018) along with two other national championship appearances in 2015 and 2019. [2] The Tigers have claimed 26 conference championships and have appeared in 50 postseason bowl ...
The institution's first president was Henry Aubrey Strode, appointed in 1890, [2] and its 15th and current is James P. Clements, who assumed office in 2013. [a] [3] All of Clemson's presidents have been white men. Robert Cook Edwards had the longest tenure at 21 years, [4] and Walter T. Cox Jr. had the shortest at eight months. [5]
McFadden's best year as coach was the 1951–52 season when the Tigers were 17–7 overall and 11–4 in the Conference. Atlantic Coast Conference Center Tree Rollins, Clemson keyplayer in the 1970s. In 1953, Clemson became a founding member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. In the 1954–55 season, Bill Yarborough averaged 28.3 points per game ...