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Visit Coach Frank Howard's Hillside Grave Next Game; Pics of it.
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Visit Coach Frank Howard's Hillside Grave Next Game; Pics of it.

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Jan 26, 2023, 3:23 PM
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He's just above the asphalt secondary road & walkway beside & outside South Stands.

So he can hear his Tigers!

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Never realized his wife died just a few months after he did***

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Jan 26, 2023, 3:38 PM



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I attended Coach Howards Eulogy on a dreary cold Super Bowl Sunday &

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Jan 26, 2023, 3:52 PM

and afterwards watched & heard below his gravesite..next to the South Stadium Road..a Tiger Pep Bad play the slowest & saddest Tiger Rag ever, for him.

What a memory kept forever of a dedicated head football coach whom I got to interview twice in early-mid 60's for The TiGER student newspaper as a Sports Writer..

and met Coach Howard again for a 15 minute chat after the Spring Game of 1989 as he was shoveling dried grass from a parking lot curve into a bag (remember he originally planted & mowed the grass on His playing field) outside the old Athletic offices opp LJ..

and he took the time to rest from the 84* heat by leaning on his car fender (now in his 70's & sweating) and told me how the Easley Bypass from G'ville to Clemson was a by-product of him telling the SC highway patrol in 1960 to cause a traffic jam after the "1st ever" CU-SC football game played AT Clemson..

and in doing so he knew the gamecock big wigs, lawyers & legislators from Columbia would start hollering and making sure they didn't have to endure those 2-lane country roads and longg trips again in 1962 and would find the funding for 4 highway lanes sooner than later!

Bingo!

What a guy & ambassador for lil ole clemPson College!

Go TiGERS & THX FRANK~

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He is supposedly buried facing Memorial Stadium.***

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Jan 26, 2023, 3:55 PM



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"All those 'Fire Brownell' guys can kiss it." -Joseph Girard III

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Re: He is supposedly buried facing Memorial Stadium.***

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Jan 26, 2023, 4:33 PM

My mother was an RN who took care of Coach Howard after surgery not long before his death. She got me his autograph when I was 15 and she still worked 3rd shift.

Still think about that.

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Re: He is supposedly buried facing Memorial Stadium.***

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Jan 26, 2023, 6:31 PM [ in reply to He is supposedly buried facing Memorial Stadium.*** ]

Not according to the picture posted by LBB.... he's facing East - unless they turned his casket 90 degrees to the left.

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Re: He is supposedly buried facing Memorial Stadium.***

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Jan 26, 2023, 8:04 PM [ in reply to He is supposedly buried facing Memorial Stadium.*** ]

You can check with Clemson Cemetery investigative group that has now found an alleged 700 unmarked graves at Cemetery Hill .. or voids in the ground be whatever.. and now say all African American graves from1600s??.. they have scanned the Cemetery noting voids but if casket they can tell you orientation of the casket.

just fyi…

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Re: Visit Coach Frank Howard's Hillside Grave Next Game; Pics of it.

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Jan 26, 2023, 7:02 PM

I have a question. I noticed that his wife was named Anna Tribble Howard. Any relationship to former Clemson womens basketball coach Ann Tribble?

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Re: Visit Coach Frank Howard's Hillside Grave Next Game; Pics of it.

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Jan 26, 2023, 7:20 PM

I wondered that too

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Jan 26, 2023, 7:06 PM

Keep your filthy hands off his headstone too!

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Class of '87


Re: Visit Coach Frank Howard's Hillside Grave Next Game; Pics of it.

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Jan 26, 2023, 7:52 PM

Impressed they let you in the Cemetery under the current investigation of the now African American Cemetery. . May he rest in peace!!

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