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Re: 1905 Clemson football players on Bowman Field
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Jun 17, 2025, 8:38 AM
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Wish I was born in that generation....none of them look hot.
If I wore those outfits today I'd heat stroke out in 3 minutes
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Re: 1905 Clemson football players on Bowman Field
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Jun 17, 2025, 8:48 AM
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It was cooler back then. You know, global warming and all. LOL!
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Re: 1905 Clemson football players on Bowman Field
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Jun 17, 2025, 9:08 AM
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120 years ago.
1. It was definitely cooler on average.
2. The human body was better adapted to its environment. Air conditioning had just been invented and was not very common.
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Re: 1905 Clemson football players on Bowman Field
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Jun 17, 2025, 8:55 AM
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Pretty cool. I think I see Bob the third from the left and FM sitting on the bench in the background.
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Didnt realize Youtube was around in 1905
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Jun 17, 2025, 9:00 AM
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Not to mention very cool photo!
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Re: 1905 Clemson football players on Bowman Field
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Jun 17, 2025, 9:38 AM
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Question.... Are you sure that is not a rugby team.? When I was a student there in the 60s I was invited, at one point, to play rugby. Just asking.
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Football very much resembled rugby in those days
Jun 17, 2025, 2:39 PM
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The forward pass was not until 1906
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Wonder what they got paid?***
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Jun 17, 2025, 11:47 AM
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Re: Wonder what they got paid?***
Jun 17, 2025, 1:27 PM
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peanuts
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Re: 1905 Clemson football players on Bowman Field
Jun 17, 2025, 2:22 PM
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Enjoyed this
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Everyone in that picture is dead.
Jun 17, 2025, 2:33 PM
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I am just here to brighten the mood! 
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Not only that, but all of their kids and most grandkids are also dead***
Jun 17, 2025, 2:41 PM
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Jebediah Hood wrote the article for this game for
Jun 17, 2025, 2:54 PM
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Ezekiel Crumpton.
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Bowman Field was where all the earlier games were played in
Jun 18, 2025, 4:30 AM
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those days, and spectators would surround the area in whatever means of transportation, sort of like original tailgating.
Before helmets the players tended to wear longer hair for some protection, and old tales hinted at the use of brass knuckles occasionally.
Walter Merritt Riggs started Clemson's program, having previously done the same at Auburn; hence, where the Tiger name and colors originated. Later on, he became the President of Clemson. Eventually, the games moved to Riggs Field, then in the early 40's to what we call Death Valley. During my days there in the 60's, the team dressed in Fike Fieldhouse, then walked down to the stadium. As it was a quicker entrance via the east end, that's how running down the hill evolved. Use of the hill was spotty for viewing then, as mostly kids took it over for cardboard sliding.
By 1966, the rock was placed atop the hill, but the tradition of the touching didn't begin until the following year. Football games then were mostly social affairs with guys typically wearing dress slacks and ties, the ladies in dresses, some types of heels, even gloves. Saturday nights were the scenes of large dances in the cafeteria, also social in nature, with students dressed in coats and ties, the ladies in dresses. As students looked forward to the dances, there probably would have been riots had the games started any later than the typical one o'clock game times! lol
And, some of those boys shown in that clip were still alive when I was there...an eye opener, for sure, when thinking of time!
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