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Football Update: Historic Clemson Photos #58: 1949 Death Valley
Jun 25, 2013, 2:19 PM
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That's an awesome photo!***
Jun 25, 2013, 2:24 PM
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Re: Football Update: Historic Clemson Photos #58: 1949 Death Valley
Jun 25, 2013, 2:27 PM
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I wonder if the crown was lower in those days or do the people just mask it more
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Is that you Nelon?***
Jun 25, 2013, 3:25 PM
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I think that's looking West
Jun 25, 2013, 4:22 PM
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If that is looking East (the Littlejohn comment) then where is the Hill?
Can anybody back me up on this?
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Game Changer [2031]
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Littlejohn is on the west end of the stadium.***
Jun 25, 2013, 4:25 PM
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This picture was taken from the current student section
Jun 25, 2013, 5:06 PM
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On the South East side of the field.
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Re: I think that's looking West
Jun 25, 2013, 5:13 PM
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This view is looking west toward where the westendzone structure is now.
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Fan [50]
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Yeah, that's what I thought so
Jun 25, 2013, 5:41 PM
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that can't be where Littlejohn was as it states.
Am I right? I just wanna make sure I'm correct in what I'm seeing. Those structures would be back there where Jervey and all that is back toward Doug Kingsmore.
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Notice the hedges in Death Valley. Someone asked about them
Jun 25, 2013, 5:33 PM
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the other day. Here's your proof. Also, notice the cadets posted at the bottom of each section with their rifle. Times have changed.
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I went there..October 8, 1949: Clemson 7 Mississippi State 7
Jun 25, 2013, 6:03 PM
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I did remember many campus student housing as apartment before Littlejohn Coliseum. Wow!
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Re: I went there..October 8, 1949: Clemson 7 Mississippi State 7
Jun 25, 2013, 6:08 PM
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I think that's the game Jerry Clower is talking about in his "The time we played Clemson"
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Re: Football Update: Historic Clemson Photos #58: 1949 Death Valley
Jun 25, 2013, 6:08 PM
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The small building behind the stadium are student housing. They called them prefabs. Littlejohn coliseum sits on that site today.
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Re: Football Update: Historic Clemson Photos #58: 1949 Death Valley
Jun 25, 2013, 6:48 PM
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The guy on the left with the jacket on is the that always yells
"Run the ball, run the ball"
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Wow...notice the tiny hedges & teeny tree on hill. I lived
Jun 25, 2013, 7:12 PM
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in one of those prefabs in 1962 (near what's the parking lot of the Athletic offices)...just a month after getting married.
gOtiGERS!
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [100778]
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Dang..."CU_KOBE_24" you are older than dirt & Me! Haaaa....
Jun 25, 2013, 7:15 PM
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I lived in one of the back prefabs in 1962 (near present parking lot to the right of Athletic offices) after just getting married and returning to Clemson after starting earlier in 1959 and going into Navy for awhile.
gOtiGERs!
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I wonder if that tiny tree was an oak. I remember climbing
Jun 25, 2013, 8:38 PM
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the trees near the hill during games when I was a kid in the mid to late 70s. Seems like that would have been where they would have been before the expansions that took them out.
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Rival Killer [2776]
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Hartins remembers this well...
Jun 25, 2013, 7:18 PM
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(Smiles)
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Re: Football Update: Historic Clemson Photos #58: 1949 Death Valley
Jun 25, 2013, 9:57 PM
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Look at Google Earth and you will see that Littlejohn is located where the Prefabs are shown. The cluster of Prefabs was called Vetville.
I was OD(Officer of The Day) that day and had to drive the Commandant to the game(Homecoming, I think). I had to take him back home after the military ceremony because he had recently had a heart attack. Guess that was a wise move . We may have lost him during such an exciting game! Brings back good memories.
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This was my freshman year. That is me down on the field.***
Jun 25, 2013, 9:59 PM
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