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Paw Master [17595]
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Mesmerized by this photo I ran across on FB
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May 13, 2025, 7:09 AM
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From 1964; photo credit to James Stepp
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All-In [10857]
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May 13, 2025, 7:15 AM
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Awesome! Tigers ready to run down the hill. Gentlemen wearing hats.
Go Tigers
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Paw Warrior [4755]
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Re: Mesmerized by this photo I ran across on FB
May 14, 2025, 3:33 PM
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It is time for a return to the fedora - en masse.
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110%er [3862]
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May 13, 2025, 7:17 AM
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I miss those trees.
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Paw Master [16404]
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May 13, 2025, 7:20 AM
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That’s pretty cool right there.
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May 13, 2025, 7:27 AM
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Awesome pic. Makes my day.
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CU Medallion [19006]
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May 13, 2025, 7:29 AM
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My late uncle worked on the next stadium upgrades that started to look like Death Valley today. He helped add the upper deck and west end zone.
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Re: Mesmerized by this photo I ran across on FB
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May 13, 2025, 7:31 AM
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must have had a rough fire marshall then. Almost empty Hill
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Solid Orange [1393]
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May 13, 2025, 7:51 AM
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I was Probly in that picture somewhere. Hill back then was mainly a childcare area. Kids would get one of the little footballs the cheerleaders threw out and play on the terrace halfway down or slide on cardboard. Folks could watch their kids from the stands. Stands were Probly about 60 percent full cept for Coots maybe. Attendance picked up bout 75 with the decent year and kept going up since then
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Re: Mesmerized by this photo I ran across on FB
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May 13, 2025, 8:35 PM
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Freshman were getting tickets on the 50 yd line lower deck in 1975 before the upper deck was built. Team wasn't very good in 1975. By 1979 seniors seats weren't that good.
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Paw Master [16666]
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Are those fans on the field forming the player path?
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May 13, 2025, 8:10 AM
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Looks like we are playing UNC.
Quite a different time. Simple and approachable. Crazy what it has turned in to.
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Heisman Winner [78680]
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Re: Are those fans on the field forming the player path?
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May 13, 2025, 8:29 AM
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very different era. Of course back then they were entering the field to warm up. Now this entrance is just before kickoff when there are lots more fans in the seats.
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Paw Master [17595]
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National Champion [7907]
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Great pic, but a bad day for the Tigers
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May 13, 2025, 10:11 AM
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We got smoked by the Tarholes 29-0. I may have been there with my mom and dad, not sure. We lived in married student housing at the time.
I was born exactly one month after this pic was taken.
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Paw Master [17595]
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Based on your last sentence, I doubt you were there***
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May 13, 2025, 11:50 AM
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National Champion [7907]
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Are you saying that...
May 13, 2025, 1:05 PM
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being eight months pregnant is an excuse to not make it over to campus for the floats and the homecoming game?
I suspect my mom (RIP) would beg to differ, sir.
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Paw Master [17595]
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Not disrespecting your Mom
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May 13, 2025, 3:36 PM
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I was just commenting on the fact that you weren’t born yet.
But I guess a baby is viable at 8 months, inside or out…not that I want to start any political debates here. So I stand corrected; if she was there, then you were, too.
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Orange Phenom [14594]
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May 13, 2025, 8:25 AM
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Very cool. Zoom in and you can see Johnstone, Sirrine and the Shoeboxes.
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May 13, 2025, 9:29 AM
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Freshman in '69...love the hedges, any idea when were they removed?...recognize all the buildings including the "P" plant. What was the building between the Shoe Boxes and the stadium? So was the "argyle" design a regular in the end zone or a "tribute" to "UNC"?
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May 13, 2025, 10:11 AM
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Laundromat
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Re: Mesmerized by this photo I ran across on FB
May 14, 2025, 4:14 PM
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Good call on the shoeboxes. Question: the photo is dated 1964, but weren't the shoeboxes (at least the ones nearer the stadium) built after that?
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National Champion [8003]
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i think we should all wear suits to games again***
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May 13, 2025, 8:29 AM
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Paw Master [16383]
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Amazing how sloppy we dress now comparatively***
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May 13, 2025, 9:20 AM
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CU Medallion [20915]
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60 years ago and the men are in suits and tie
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May 13, 2025, 8:38 AM
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Balmy ...
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Playmaker [357]
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May 13, 2025, 9:30 AM
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I'm surprised by how little orange is in the stands!!
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All-TigerNet [6067]
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May 13, 2025, 9:35 AM
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In those days, even we didn't wear orange - we wore a suit and tie - or at least a blazer or sport coat and tie... 
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Game Day Hero [4154]
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May 13, 2025, 9:37 AM
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Was able to get tickets on the home side in the 60s. Schedule was crazy that year. Just four at CU. After the first home game vs Furman, next five were away with one win vs WF. Tigers scored 105 points that year during a 3 win and 7 loss season. UNC 29 to zip and USUK 7 - 3. Other wins were FU and UVA.
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1st Rounder [615]
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May 13, 2025, 9:38 AM
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Were they bussed to the hill side of the stadium in those days? MY great grandpa was at Clemson in the early 40s but hes been gone for 25 years now. The stuff I wish I could ask him...
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Legend [7040]
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May 13, 2025, 9:42 AM
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This was before The Rock was there, which didn't come until 1967. So I believe the players were also still walking out of Jervey over to the hill back then
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Head Coach [967]
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May 13, 2025, 9:45 AM
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Fike you mean maybe? Or did they use Jervey as a locker room too at one point? That would be a heck of a walk lol
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1st Rounder [628]
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May 13, 2025, 9:47 AM
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Jervey...thought they dressed and returned to the "Cow Palace" across the road?
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Legend [7040]
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Tiger Spirit [9380]
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May 13, 2025, 9:56 AM
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Yeah, it was Fike.
The shortest entry into Memorial Stadium was a short walk down Williamson Road from Fike Fieldhouse’s dressing rooms to a gate at the top of the Hill, located behind the East end zone. There were no dressing facilities inside the West end zone of Memorial Stadium… there was only a giant clock, where the hands turned, and a scoreboard that was operated by hand.
https://clemsontigers.com/the-hill/
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CU Medallion [18905]
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So where was the visiting team dressing room?
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May 13, 2025, 11:25 AM
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Game Day Hero [4292]
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They would walk from the dressing room at the basement of Fike to the top of the hill and walk back after the game. I would stand at the door to the dressing room and get autographs after the game. Got bold enough to walk IN the dressing room one time. Frank Howard saw me and hollerd ‘GET THAT BOY OUTTA HERE’. I ran out the door,sure I was going to be arrested. True story. Found my Daddy,told him what happened and I was going to get arrested. He said he thought he could get me out of town before the police showed up.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [101434]
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Nice find***
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May 13, 2025, 9:54 AM
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Rock Defender [55]
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May 13, 2025, 10:02 AM
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One year before I started at CU. I made it to the shoeboxes my junior year. Yes, we dressed up for events back then. Nice pic.
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May 13, 2025, 10:25 AM
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Don't remember that specifically, but if it was 1964 I guarantee you I was there ..... with my rat hat on.
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1st Rounder [628]
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May 13, 2025, 10:28 AM
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'69 freshman...still have my 2 Rat Hats. 3 kids who also graduated from Clemson laugh when I bring them out!
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Re: Mesmerized by this photo I ran across on FB
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May 13, 2025, 10:53 AM
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That's a great pic.
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Orange Elite [5191]
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Back when a football game was just a nice way
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May 13, 2025, 11:06 AM
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to pass the time.
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Clemson Icon [25545]
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Re: Back when a football game was just a nice way
May 14, 2025, 4:26 PM
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As long as no "colored fellas" showed up to watch or play and ruin it.
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Those gents are rockin' those fedoras....***
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May 13, 2025, 11:48 AM
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Paw Warrior [5059]
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And Tigerman39 downvoted it - why?
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May 13, 2025, 8:13 PM
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Amazing some people downvote just to be a pain.
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Re: Mesmerized by this photo I ran across on FB
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May 13, 2025, 8:17 PM
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Gotta ask...is "progress" really progress?
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Campus Hero [13280]
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May 14, 2025, 4:59 AM
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Love all the fedoras too
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Re: Mesmerized by this photo I ran across on FB
May 14, 2025, 5:45 AM
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Love this! Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Mesmerized by this photo I ran across on FB
May 14, 2025, 3:34 PM
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from such humble beginnings . . .
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