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Remembering when The Hill was THE HILL...
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Remembering when The Hill was THE HILL...


Aug 30, 2022, 11:34 AM

The new video board is certainly impressive looking and a sign of the times. I still miss when The Hill had much more grass!

THE HILL in 1969 during Clemson vs Bama game:

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019/07/11/PGRE/521c1368-00ec-44be-83db-4e318115dc0c-0710_Clemson_50.JPG?crop=2399%2C1349%2Cx0%2Cy0&width=1200



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Section GG, Baby!


Aug 30, 2022, 11:37 AM

:)

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Maybe some of you historians could help me with this...


Aug 30, 2022, 11:38 AM

But whatever happen to the rug/mats that clemson runs down on like the in 1969..
(Which to me looks pretty nice!!)..


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Re: Maybe some of you historians could help me with this...


Aug 30, 2022, 11:58 AM

You mean like the rugs we still use? Every game. For like the past 60 years or so?

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Back in the early 60s


Aug 30, 2022, 1:12 PM [ in reply to Maybe some of you historians could help me with this... ]

It was rolled up on about a 4" pipe and kept in a corner of the basketball gym in Fike.

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I heard fanatics was selling some old ones


Aug 30, 2022, 10:33 PM [ in reply to Maybe some of you historians could help me with this... ]

Not sure if they still are though.

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so that is where the QBert developers got their


Aug 30, 2022, 11:42 AM

inspiration.. good to know

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Geville Tiger on Clemson football , "Dabo's only problem is he has to deal with turd fans questioning every move he makes.”


I hope I am not the only older nerd who understood your


Aug 30, 2022, 11:47 AM

post. ?

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Re: I hope I am not the only older nerd who understood your


Aug 30, 2022, 11:54 AM

I was at this Bama game. The Tide had a pretty good QB that day. Clemson didn’t!

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did he look like this?


Aug 30, 2022, 11:59 AM



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Geville Tiger on Clemson football , "Dabo's only problem is he has to deal with turd fans questioning every move he makes.”


Re: did he look like this?


Aug 30, 2022, 12:25 PM

No. He looked more like Ken Stabler.

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Ken Stabler played in DV in 1967. Scott Hunter was the


Aug 30, 2022, 8:35 PM

Tide QB @ Clemson in 1969.

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Aug 30, 2022, 12:53 PM

Them were some good times. Thanks for posting.

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We can't even fill the space on the hill we have now.***


Aug 30, 2022, 2:48 PM



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Scott Hunter was the Alabama QB that day


Aug 30, 2022, 2:52 PM

I sat next to the Alabama band that day.

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Re: Scott Hunter was the Alabama QB that day


Aug 30, 2022, 3:27 PM

You are 100 per cent right. As I recall they had a backup QB from Charlotte who later played well for them.Hayden maybe .
Clemson didn’t know at the time but there was old country boy on that who made us all proud a dozen years later !

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Re: Remembering when The Hill was THE HILL...


Aug 30, 2022, 9:04 PM

And remember the 2 small hills on the west side of the stadium. I sat there a few times too.

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Re: Remembering when The Hill was THE HILL...


Aug 30, 2022, 9:15 PM

Is that where kids slid down the hill on cardboard?I remember watching that from the south stands and being envious.

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Class of '87


Re: Remembering when The Hill was THE HILL...


Aug 30, 2022, 9:20 PM

I sat under the tree on the left (north) side with my dad the day we beat Wofford in 1981. My gosh it was hot that day, was really grateful for that shade.

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