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Oculus Spirit [90729]
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Bet a bulb most fans on here don't know Thomas G Clemson is..
Nov 17, 2019, 9:45 AM
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from Philly (but probably never had a Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich).
Ha..sadly i didn't for 51 years until a GF who attended a game with me in 2008 noticed it written on his statue plague in front of Tillman Hall..
and i about fell over!
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Legend [16427]
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and there is still an island up there nMed for the Clemson
Nov 17, 2019, 9:47 AM
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Family!
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All-TigerNet [10853]
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Re: Bet a bulb most fans on here don't know Thomas G Clemson is..
Nov 17, 2019, 9:52 AM
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I did...
But like you it took me into my 50's to really know. My daughter and I went to a game about 3 years ago and as we were walking around campus she walked up to Fort Hill. As many times as I walked past it as a student and on game days, I never really walked up to it.
Door was unlocked and there was a very informative tour you can take. The lady who showed us around gave us all this history attached as well as information on the Clemson family (past and present).
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Orange Blooded [3348]
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Re: Bet a bulb most fans on here don't know Thomas G Clemson is..
Nov 17, 2019, 10:43 AM
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I've done a lot of reading through the years and knew T.G. Clemson was originally from Pennsylvania, but I wouldn't consider him a northerner by any stretch of the imagination since he chose to resign his post and return to South Carolina from DC after we seceded and war broke out.
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Standout [312]
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Learned that in Dr. Jerome Reel's class.
Nov 17, 2019, 10:01 AM
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History of Clemson and Higher Education. Fun class.
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Legend [16207]
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Is that where you learned...
Nov 17, 2019, 10:07 AM
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The Clemson "Tigers" are named after the Princeton Tigers not the Auburn Tigers?
I learned about that in 2011 after Dr. Reel had published some research.
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Standout [312]
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Well I learned that Walter Riggs was a Princeton grad which
Nov 17, 2019, 10:13 AM
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is why both Auburn and Clemson are the Tigers (and orange and purple / blue).
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Standout [312]
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Well per wiki, I was incorrect. Riggs graduated Auburn.***
Nov 17, 2019, 10:17 AM
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Legend [16207]
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From Dr. Reel....and his research...
Nov 17, 2019, 10:21 AM
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"The members of the first team cited two team members as having proposed the Tiger and they also said that it was selected because of Princeton's superb football team. I tell the story and give an obituary citation to the Anderson "Independent" in my vol 1 of "The High Seminary", which is available from the Alumni Association. Whether or not the Alabama A & M college was using a Tiger on or before September 30, 1896 (the date our choice was made) or not, is open to question. Wall Street Journal ran a mascot article some years ago that suggested the "War Eagle", Alabama A& M's earliest "Totem", was called "tiger" and that when the first or second of these birds died, the name slipped onto the school. They placed the date of death around 1905. The first printed "semi-official source" of Auburn's. the "Glomerata", used "tiger" in 1898 for the first time that I have been able to find. More importantly, Princeton, LSU (which may be the oldest), and Sewanee, all used the "tiger" by 1890."
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Legend [16207]
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You learned how to read sometime after college?
Nov 17, 2019, 10:03 AM
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LOL...just messin' widya.
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CU Guru [1959]
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Re: OMG, he had the plague?
Nov 17, 2019, 10:04 AM
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;^)
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All-In [40872]
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I knew he was from up North when I was a student in the 80's
Nov 17, 2019, 10:10 AM
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and that he married Calhoun's daughter and inherited the land and graciously gave it to us. That is pretty common knowledge.
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