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What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 10:35 AM
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1982 duke for me. i was just three years old, but as a dukes of hazard fan, the only thing i can vaguely remember being disappointed that the general lee was not in the valley that day. dad owned his own business and had to work an occasional saturday, so mom thought it would be ok to take me to a game. if i lasted a quarter or half the day would be considered a success but apparently i lasted the whole game and have been hooked ever since. we still have the same seats in the south upper deck, and it has been amazing to see the families grow up around us. there is something in these hills.
at some point in the next year or two i remember homer jordan getting hurt and feeling bad for him. first away game was at Ga tech in '86 or so, when we won 27-3 ish on a hot as blazes day that ended with us eating at the rotating peach tree plaza restaurant. to this day, the '87 georgia game remains at the top of my list of favorite games. i distinctly remember the punt downed at the one yard line and thinking: "if we can get a safety we have a shot." the first time i remember being giddy about a game was the infamous puntrooskie game. pouring down rain at the kickoff and i remember looking to my dad and saying, "i have been looking forward to this game for all week." as a kid, i had no idea what was happening on that fake, but i distantly recall a silent death valley minus the fsu fans to the left of the hill. they were going nuts.
if you are anything like me, you relate life's major moments around a clemson sporting event. i can look back at 90% of the games over the past 20+ years and remember what was going on in my life in relation to clemson football. i'll never forget hobbling up to out seats after i injured my knee in a high school football game for the '97 fsu game where tony horne nearly single handedly pulled the upset. i won't forget my ex-wife's first game against virginia the first game after september 11, or our car being towed two years later after an overtime win over the cavs. the alabama debacle in atlanta came five days before my wife decided to leave me, and 2008 remains the ply season where i attended every game home and away as an attempt to escape the pain of separation from my wife.
and the proud moments: as a sophomore at clemson i had a buddy at LSU that came up for Bowden Bowl I. he was blown away and to this day swears that our death valley is better than theirs. i headed down to the other death valley a couple of weeks later and had a blast, but its no clemson. i'll never forget sitting in groves stadium at wake forest in 2003, being down 45-0 and thinking this is the end of the bowden era. a week late i could not give away my extra tix to the fsu game and in the days that shocking win many friends apologized for not believing we had a chance and not taking the tix. went to the 2009 miami OT game and remember being emotional after jacopby ford caught the winning td in overtime. it had been a long year and that single moment kind of told me that some day things would be ok again.
wins in columbia trump just about any other moment. my first game in columbia was in 1991 and i saw five straight clemson wins before i saw us lose down there. i always believe that there is no better place to see a clemson win than in williams brice, but there is no worse place to lose than in the same venue.
i could type on this subject forever. clemson has and will always be a major part of my life. i have been told on countless occasions, that it's just a game....but for me it means so much more than that.
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'76 vs fswho in talley. 15-12 tigers...
Jun 26, 2015, 10:37 AM
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i still hear the lamentations of their wimmins.
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That was mine also ! Those fans were a-holes !***
Jun 26, 2015, 10:54 AM
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Re: '76 vs fswho in talley. 15-12 tigers...
Jun 26, 2015, 1:05 PM
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I had the same pick. Still remember when OUR fans pegged THEIR sound meter.
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 10:47 AM
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First game 1979 versus Maryland Lost 19-0
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1974 Death Valley
Jun 26, 2015, 10:47 AM
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My first home game as a student. First 2 games were away and losses.
Beat GT by 4. Close game. First of home game winning streak.
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Mine was FSU in DV in 2007. Tigers Won.
Jun 26, 2015, 10:47 AM
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I didn't grow up a College Football fan ( from upstate New York) then moved south when I was 7. It's all about pro football up north.
My girlfriend (a Clemson Grad) Wife now, took me to the FSU game in 2007. Her whole family bleeds orange, Dad a Alumni, grandfather an Alumni.
I remember being so awestruck by the experience. During the game I thought, this is for me, I want to be a part of this.
Since then, I have been all-in. Will graduate next year with a masters in Buisness admin and entrepreneurial innovation from Tiger Town!
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1977 ND game in DV
Jun 26, 2015, 10:48 AM
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Montana broke my 9 yr. old heart with 4th quarter drive but I became a Tiger fan for life that day. My Pop took me because he was a lifelong Domer. Ken McAfee, NDs all american TE, told my Pop on the field that he had never been hit that hard in his life. I got Johnathan Brooks' belt from his pants and met Jim Stuckey too. It sealed the deal for me.
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1981 massacre of Wake Forest
Jun 26, 2015, 10:52 AM
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I was 9 and had been a fan already, but WOW what a first game to attend.
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My first game too. Top row North Stands 19 yrs old***
Jun 26, 2015, 8:59 PM
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 10:53 AM
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1966 Carolina-Clemson game. A guard Harry Osueski ( close) caught a fumble midair and ran 10 yards for a TD. We won of course.
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Harry Olszewski was a great one.***
Jun 26, 2015, 10:57 AM
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Re: Harry Olszewski was a great one.***
Jun 27, 2015, 10:44 AM
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1952...PC. Most memorable about the day was a women beside me wore a mink stole with a mink head with glass eyes. I was amazed that somebody would have a dead animal wrapped around their neck. I was four years old.
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1971 v. Maryland....
Jun 26, 2015, 10:58 AM
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My Grandfather (a 1924 Clemson alum) took me.
I was eight years old.
Clemson won 20 - 14.
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 11:00 AM
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I don't remember my first game or who we played but it was the 1974 season. I was 2 years old and have been to at least 3 home games every year since.
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1963
Jun 26, 2015, 11:11 AM
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Clemson beat Wake Forest.
Jim Parker was Clemson's QB. Went with my great aunt and great uncle and stayed in a "hotel" room in the YMCA - Holtzendorff Hall. I guess the Clemson House was full.
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Re: 1963
Jun 26, 2015, 11:18 AM
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Cool! I grew up in Clemson and remember going to the indoor pool there before they closed it.
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Re: 1963
Jun 26, 2015, 12:48 PM
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1963 UGA game tying them 6-6,while trying to survive the hailstorm in first half.
I was a Rat and cheering like H##.
Long time ago.
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Stayed in the North stands until the hail hurt. Underneath
Jun 26, 2015, 9:44 PM
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was a mob scene!
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I can't remember my first game, as I was a baby, but
Jun 26, 2015, 11:04 AM
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the first one I can remember was when Alabama came to Clemson in 1967. I remember my father telling me about Bear Bryant, and how they were called the "Crimson Tide" and their line was known as the "Red Elephants". They had a hot-shot QB named Kenny Stabler. We lost a close one, 13-10. Later that year we beat #10 NC State after our players painted their shoes orange in response to NC State wearing all white shoes; I remember that one pretty well too.
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Re: I can't remember my first game, as I was a baby, but
Jun 26, 2015, 11:15 AM
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Was at both games. We kept State out of the Sugar Bowl that year.
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Well, I was 8 in '67, which are the first games about which
Jun 27, 2015, 1:05 AM
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I can recall things like players' names and such, but I attended many games before that, starting when I was a baby.
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'77 @ Willie-B.... Fuller-to-Butler.***
Jun 26, 2015, 11:07 AM
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 11:11 AM
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App State 1991 (I think) Ronald Williams's first game in the Valley. Dang he was good.
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2008 loss vs MD
Jun 26, 2015, 11:16 AM
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I had just recently applied to Clenson and wanted to go there and only there. I had been raised the Terps fan by my parents, who are Maryland natives
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 11:45 AM
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1976 Duke game - Duke kick a last second field goal to tie the game 18-18. I was 6.
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 2:19 PM
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This was my first game as well. If I remember correctly the kick to tie was 50+ yards and hit the crossbar. I was 8.
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 11:45 AM
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I know Dad and Mom took us in the late 50's and parked right in front of Fike's front door. We ate out of the trunk of Mom's 1956 blue/white Pontiac Chieftan 4-door before the game started at 2:00.
First real tailgate recollection is same location in 1960 with a Ford Galaxie S/W and using the tailgate as a table...don't remember the game so much as just being there and seeing the oranges in the Orange Bowl Trophy inside.
Still have Mom(she's a 100 last April 7) and Dad's been gone since 14 Dec 2008.
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 11:51 AM
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I cannot remember that far back, but it was the first home game in 1968 as a freshman. I was on the Pershing Rifles freshman drill team, so I had to usher the first half. Frank Howard was the coach and we weren't all that good honestly. Nothing like today's team. Anyway - I was 18 and probably checked out the women more than the game. There were almost no women on campus in those days, so you seized your opportunities when you could. 
But I still loved fb. Maybe if we had had better teams it would have been more fun to watch.
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 11:57 AM
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Mine first game was 1978 and I can still see Steve Fuller under center calling the cadence. Most memorable game has to be Clemson-usuc 1980.
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 7:27 PM
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Was that the 13 -9 game in Columbia?
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 11:57 AM
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My first game was 1978 and I can still see Steve Fuller under center calling the cadence. Most memorable game has to be Clemson-usuc 1980.
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 27, 2015, 10:02 AM
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Was on the hill for Clemson/SCar, 1980. It launched our championship run.
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1981 against the UGA dawgs!***
Jun 26, 2015, 12:31 PM
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1966 sliding down the hill
Jun 26, 2015, 2:01 PM
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on cardboard then running up to the players after the games asking for a chin strap. Played midget football in Seneca....collected a lot of Clemson chin straps.
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Re: 1966 sliding down the hill
Jun 26, 2015, 7:30 PM
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I may have played against you in Seneca. Did you ever play Kingstree in a playoff game?
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Some of the greatest laughs I had as a student were watching
Jun 28, 2015, 6:19 AM
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the kids sliding down the hills...both the EEZ one and the one adjacent to the North Stands.
Many times you could hear the kids yelling or screaming during the games, so we alternated between watching the field and the hills.
On return trips after graduating packs of the young folks would approach our tailgates, begging for cardboard with much of the begging accompanied with "We're thirsty and hungry" comments. So, we usually complied giving up sodas, sandwiches, chicken and cardboard. No doubt, some of our Tigernetters were among those kids in those days. lol
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 2:05 PM
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Sometime in the fall of '86. I've been going to them since I turned 1. I CAN tell you this though.... My first Clemson vs usuc game as a Clemson Student ended with a score of 63-17.
It was a great time to be a Freshman.
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 2:08 PM
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2003 Season Opener at Home against UGA.
Miserably Hot, Drunk off of Kegs & Eggs, and we got our #### beat handily.
Ended up being the worst sunburn I'd ever had too. Had blisters on my head. All in all not a great day for many reasons, but being in Death Valley with 80000+ CLEMSON TIGERS made it all worthwhile.
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Very young, maybe 5th grade
Jun 26, 2015, 2:14 PM
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we lived in Colombus Ga and my dad snagged(I think that now, at the time i thought he bought them)
Clemson/ Ga Tech tickets.
This was like 1965.
We went , I was excited, it rained....Tigers won, been one ever since
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1967 when Frank let the boys paint their shoes ORANGE!
Jun 26, 2015, 2:34 PM
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A great win for the Tigers that day! I was but a lad of 14 and came to watch the game with my Dad as a (gulp!) fan of the Wolfpack, as Dad was a State grad.
But that was just a few years before my enrollment into the university . . . and two degrees (and several decades) later, here I am, dragging my kids and grandkids to games!!!
Here's a recap of that momentous game: http://www.clemsontigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=209688765
Go, Tigers!
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Re: 1967 when Frank let the boys paint their shoes ORANGE!
Jun 26, 2015, 7:38 PM
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Was Ray Yauger also on that team?
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 2:44 PM
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UGA 2013 in DV. First time seeing a Clemson game and had just moved on campus a week or so before for freshman year. To this day I still get chills thinking about how loud and packed it was on the hill. Man the time really flies by!
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1958 versus North Carolina
Jun 26, 2015, 3:13 PM
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I was 6. Hot day and we got under the shade trees that used to in the southwest corner of west end zone. Frank Howard's 100th win at Clemson. Unfortunately, the last one I got to see until I started as a freshman in 1970.
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1980 Duke....was 12 at the time. Was in awe of everything..
Jun 26, 2015, 3:21 PM
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the crowd, the excitement, toilet paper flying through the air. Clemson lost but we know what happened the following year!!!!
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Barely remembering my Dad saying they are going to put
Jun 26, 2015, 7:02 PM
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a second level of seats on top of these. I was in awe that one could do something such as that.
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85 or 86 GaTech in Death Valley
Jun 26, 2015, 7:06 PM
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We lost the game but I was overwhelmed by the excitement of the game. I was 12 or 13 and hadn't witnessed a crowd that big, loud and excited. A neighbor took me and a blind man, which I thought was odd at the time. I guess a blind man could feel that energy better than I could see it, especially after having been there so many times since.
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'74 we were 0-2 and we beat GT 21-17 and Dawgs 28-24
Jun 26, 2015, 7:31 PM
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i was 7 when I first remember. I cried...lol I was so upset we had opened on the road 0-2 losses to Texas a&am or tech( hard to remember ) ans NC state. It seems like we had a problem with our first two games every year back then. Anybody help me with facts. I was loving the fact we beat Georgia and GT back to back. The Valley was rocking! We had a good year with only 2 more losses the rest of the year. I always kept a Clemson scrap book with paper clippings and Autographs. Love to know where that book is now. Technology made that obsolete in just a few years.
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Since my first game was 47 years ago, and we went 4-5-1
Jun 26, 2015, 8:00 PM
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in 1968, I couldn't even remember for sure which game it was. But it was the first home game of my freshman year, 1968. We lost to Auburn 21-10. In spite of winning only four games, we went 4-1-1 and finished 2nd in the conference. The only game I really remember that year was losing 7-3 at home to the chickens, when they ran a punt back for their only score.
While a student, I suffered through Coach Howard's last two seasons, and Hootie's first two. We won a total of 16 games in four years, lost 3 of 4 to the chickens, and were hammered every year by UGA. Not a fun time to be a Clemson student/football fan.
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Last Big Thursday Game
Jun 26, 2015, 8:48 PM
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Went that morning to Dreher HS where Howard took the team to dress to avoid the distractions.
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Furman, 1979
Jun 26, 2015, 9:07 PM
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Danny Ford's first full season as head coach
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Furman at Sirrine Stadium. Sugar Bowl year (58-59)
Jun 26, 2015, 9:32 PM
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We won 30's to teens as best as I remember .......11 years old
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 9:49 PM
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1990 against App St. Joe Frank's who was a trainer on the NC team and trainer for my HS team as well as a great teacher gave me tickets and said I had to ask my parents. They agreed to let me go, I just had to drive down and back that day (5 hours each way), I was jacked up all the way down and even more so on the way back after the excitement of the game, the stadium and of course the win. All these years later I got to tailgate with Coach this year at the SC game this year...my dad still "blames" him for me being a Tiger. Can't wait for the season to get here...spot the #### ball!!!
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 28, 2015, 9:36 AM
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Joe Franks- a wonderful guy.
I'm a Grimsley grad (1966) and it is super to have read your note.
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 26, 2015, 10:20 PM
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1957 Clemson v PC. 66-0. I was 6.
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All-In [28211]
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Bennie Cunningham
Jun 26, 2015, 10:34 PM
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that's all
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CU Guru [1400]
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The first one I remember
Jun 26, 2015, 11:21 PM
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was beating Villanova in 1978. I had been to earlier games but I think the only reason I remember it was it was just me and my Dad because my Mom woke up that morning with a stomach bug so she and my 2 year old brother stayed home.
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1965...Clemson vs NC State...1st game that season on
Jun 27, 2015, 4:30 AM
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Sept. 18th and was in DV.
We won, then went on to be named Co-champs that year along with NC State in the ACC.
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110%er [7233]
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THE MARCHING BAND
Jun 27, 2015, 4:53 AM
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BEFORE THE GAMES THE MARCHING BAND USED TO MARCH AROUND THE STADIUM IN A PARADE OF SORTS... I CAN REMEMBER BEING A SMALL CHILD AND I WOULD STAND AT THE PARKING SPOT RIGHT IN FRONT GATE 9 IN THE NORTH STANDS AND WAIT FOR THE TIGER TO COME BY SO I COULD HIGH FIVE HIM. I COULD VIVIDLY REMEMBER THE VIBRATIONS OF THE BIG BASS DRUMS BEATING IN MY CHEST AS THEY MARCHED BY.. IT WAS EXHILARATING! BRING THAT TRADITION BACK! OH, AND SOME OF THE HOTTEST LADIES USED TO PAINT A TIGER PAW ON MY FACE...  BRING THAT BACK TOO AND HAVE SOME OF THEM SWING BY MY HOUSE AFTER THE GAME FOR THE AFTER POOL PARTY!!! GIGGITY AND GOOOOO TIGERS!
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Orange Blooded [2702]
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1985 Independence Bowl
Jun 27, 2015, 10:34 AM
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Despite being a third generation Tiger, I didn't see my first game in person until I was 7 years old. We didn't live within 1,000 miles of Clemson until much later in life, however this game was on our way to South Carolina for the winter holidays.
I don't remember much. I remember it was cold, and possibly raining. If the internet were around then I'm pretty sure Tigernet would have gotten Ford fired in losing to Minnesota in such a dud bowl game.
Since then I've seen bad teams and good teams. Really happy to be where we are right now!
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Team Captain [496]
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Furman 1961 ... or was it 1962
Jun 27, 2015, 11:01 AM
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It was Furman in Death Valley. My memory was a 42-3 win ... but I can not find that score in the Clemson history.
The Confederate Battle Flag was about 30 yards by 20 yards and led the team onto the field. I think that "Dixie" was played, not Tiger Rag, at the entrance. It was rousing and something I had never imagined.
Expanding a bit on this, my favorite games seen (in person) are
3-2 over Duke in 1965
40-35 over Virginia in 1966
??-? over NCState in 1967
??-?? over Georgia Tech in 1969
??-?? over Nebraska in 1982
13-9 over South Carolina in Columbia
40-35 over Ohio State
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110%er [6877]
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1982 Boston College. Flutie fought us to a tie. began to....
Jun 27, 2015, 3:44 PM
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rain as Igwebuike tried an astronomically long FG to win on the last play. last year of DV without the North Upper deck. that tie made our record 0-1-1, but we then won 9 in a row.
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Oculus Spirit [83001]
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1965, 6-0 home loss to Maryland***
Jun 28, 2015, 2:27 AM
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All-American [556]
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Re: What was your first Clemson football Game? memories?
Jun 28, 2015, 9:54 AM
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1957 Big Thursday. Tigers won. Men wore suits and women dresses with team colored ribbons on large flowers. Lots of drinking and fighting. Very different than today.
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Associate AD [819]
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October of Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Six
Jun 28, 2015, 10:03 AM
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versus Duke....we thrashed them 35-3....I wish I could say I was all into it but the truth is I was out in the concessions area playing football with some of my other Pee Wee teammates. Go Tigers!
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