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Orange Blooded [4896]
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You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 4:39 PM
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1) No upper decks
2) Concessions with two drink choices (coke and sprite) and two "food" choices (hot dogs and candy)
3) Clemson's first night game - boom lights brought in on trucks
5) Five home games was a big deal
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When the Hill was mostly occupied by kids sliding on
Apr 13, 2015, 4:44 PM
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cardboard boxes.
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Re: When the Hill was mostly occupied by kids sliding on
Apr 13, 2015, 4:49 PM
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When in high school you got in for .50 cents. Also remember band days with all the high schools at half time?
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Re: When the Hill was mostly occupied by kids sliding on
Apr 13, 2015, 5:54 PM
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I'm old lol they still have hs band day
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Orange Blooded [4757]
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I think Band Day in current times is different
Apr 14, 2015, 7:51 AM
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Band Day was brought back with Dr. Spede - it did not happen at all in the 90's. But if I'm reading the original Band Day mention correctly, when it was first a "thing" the entire HS marching band(s) would be on the field. Now it is just individual band members who are doing it on their own time.
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Re: I was at the point of the "M" in '66***
Apr 13, 2015, 10:31 PM
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I was the DM for Ashley HS in '66 and the ""E" that year. Dang, it was HOT!!!! Remember sitting in the Lower North Stands?????
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Re: When the Hill was mostly occupied by kids sliding on
Apr 13, 2015, 5:54 PM
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I remember sliding in the corners pre WEZ but never remember the Hill being available.
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Re: When the Hill was mostly occupied by kids sliding on
Apr 14, 2015, 8:24 AM
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I remember playing some good tag football games down there too!
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 4:55 PM
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You could have a cigar and bourbon in the stands without anyone complaining.
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CU Medallion [58379]
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Wooden seats.***
Apr 13, 2015, 5:12 PM
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Re: Wooden seats.
Apr 13, 2015, 7:01 PM
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I remember the splinters in the behind more than the seats. Ouch. 
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I am looking at mine above my fireplace.***
Apr 13, 2015, 8:38 PM
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Orange Blooded [2220]
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I am officially old...
Apr 13, 2015, 8:46 PM
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I remember baseball being played where the tennis courts are now....a homerun went onto Hwy 93! Peanuts and a Coke was 50cents...
I remember praying that HS tickets would be on sale so I could go to a football game....
I totally agree that Tigerama needs to go back to the Stadium....there was nothing like it....
I remember basketball being played in Fike.....and I remember my first game in Littlejohn...(the second actual game)...when Pete Maravich played for LSU....I also remember Pete around town....as a kid......
I remember a time when every Clemson fan watched the NFL on Sundays to watch Charlie Waters play for the Dallas Cowboys...
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"C" on the hemet instead of a paw.***
Apr 13, 2015, 5:13 PM
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 5:14 PM
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When Tigerrama was in Death Valley and was a pretty big deal.
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They destroyed Tigerama by moving it inside.
Apr 13, 2015, 5:20 PM
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There was nothing like sitting in the stands under a blanket watching the fireworks over DV.
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Orange Blooded [3257]
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Totally agree!***
Apr 13, 2015, 8:36 PM
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Re: They destroyed Tigerama by moving it inside.
Apr 13, 2015, 8:43 PM
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I agree my children are grown and when sitting around talking about their childhood memories they still talk about Tigerama and the fireworks.
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I'm not old! or at least I don't know that I am
Apr 13, 2015, 5:17 PM
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I do not remember not having an upper deck. Then again the first time I saw Death Valley was during freshman orientation in 1987
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 5:17 PM
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When you finished 7-4 and went undefeated at home and coke made a special commemorative bottle to honor the feat.
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I still have one of those***
Apr 13, 2015, 5:27 PM
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Re: I still have one of those- me too
Apr 13, 2015, 7:02 PM
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thirsty. think I'll open one
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Me three***
Apr 13, 2015, 8:38 PM
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I remember Hootie Ingram wanting us to stop running down
Apr 13, 2015, 5:18 PM
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The Hill
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Re: I remember Hootie Ingram wanting us to stop running down
Apr 13, 2015, 7:02 PM
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still despise that guy
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CU Medallion [58379]
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When tailgaiting meant actually eating sandwiches or
Apr 13, 2015, 5:18 PM
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fried chicken out of the back(tailgate) of your car, before tents and generators and fans and grills and TVs and such.
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Re: When tailgaiting meant actually eating sandwiches or
Apr 13, 2015, 10:33 PM
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Dad actually parked in front of Fike's front steps on many an occasion in our 1964 Ford Galaxie SW and eating chicken there.
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cadence count ended with only "fight, fight"...
Apr 13, 2015, 5:18 PM
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not the three-word redundant abomination we finish with now 
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I'm all for two fights and a ######***
Apr 13, 2015, 5:38 PM
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and "Little Wednesday" in cootville***
Apr 13, 2015, 8:42 PM
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It was a big deal to have a game televised.***
Apr 13, 2015, 5:19 PM
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There were 2 hills kids slid down.
Apr 13, 2015, 5:23 PM
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The hill we all know and love, then there was one between the west and north stands.
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That hill was the best!***
Apr 13, 2015, 8:30 PM
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Two mascots, but neither one was a cub.***
Apr 13, 2015, 5:23 PM
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 5:32 PM
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The $1.00 gate fee for High School students (for the west end zone bleachers).
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When Tigerama was 99 cents, outdoors, and there was NO
Apr 13, 2015, 5:43 PM
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BLASTED music being played during the fireworks.....Oooooh....Aaaaaahhh.....remember that?
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Spud, bet you're like me and old enough to actually remember
Apr 13, 2015, 5:51 PM
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UNCheat having a decent football team.
Bless their little hearts....
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I remember holding my breath until we got that fumble!!!!!!!***
Apr 13, 2015, 6:29 PM
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Bryant and I knew it was a lateral as soon as it happened.***
Apr 13, 2015, 8:45 PM
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Biggest heads up play in Tiger history by my favorite Tiger
Apr 13, 2015, 9:06 PM
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of all time....#99 saved the NC for us and he was my favorite then and now. What a beast of a DL who played every position on the DL and started all 4 years....Boogie Bryant was the man.
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Who remembers when the Hot Dogs
Apr 13, 2015, 9:08 PM
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Had Chili and Mustard on them!
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I remember my wife, who, at the time I had only known for
Apr 13, 2015, 10:10 PM
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about 3 months, grilled the best hamburger I had ever eaten before or since!!!!!
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Re: When Tigerama was 99 cents, outdoors, and there was NO
Apr 13, 2015, 7:55 PM
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Yes, I remember that. Was so great to hear the sizzle of the fireworks before they exploded. Then they started the loud music,
and ruined it for me. That was the ' good ole days ' lol
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Tiger Band playing "Dixie" at the games*****************
Apr 13, 2015, 5:51 PM
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Re: Tiger Band playing "Dixie" at the games*****************
Apr 13, 2015, 6:44 PM
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Dixie, Tiger Rag, Dixie, Tiger Rag......
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Re: Tiger Band playing "Dixie" at the games*****************
Apr 13, 2015, 7:21 PM
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Being part of the last official "Rat "Class in 1963.
Coeds and Intergration in masse ended it.
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Re: Tiger Band playing "Dixie" at the games*****************
Apr 13, 2015, 7:23 PM
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Frank Howard, Don Wade,Banks McFadden, Bill McClellan, Whitey Jordan and my freshman coach, "Goat" McMillan.
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Under $1 milkshakes at the Ag Sales & jim Phillips your best
Apr 13, 2015, 5:53 PM
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option for non televised away games (which was most
of them) short of going to the game.
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They might have been 85 cents when I was in school in the...
Apr 13, 2015, 6:19 PM
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mid-70s but I don't remember for sure.
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I remember the Orange shoes we wore against
Apr 13, 2015, 5:54 PM
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NC State and beat them
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Re: I remember the Orange shoes we wore against
Apr 13, 2015, 8:20 PM
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I was at that game, 1967. NC State came to town ranked # 3 (I think) that week. State's defense was called the "white shoe defense ". The tigers came out for warm ups in their regular black shoes, which was normal for that era.
Then when the tigers came down the hill , they all were wearing orange shoes, and the fans went crazy !
Our Clemson Tigers won that game 14-6, allowing State only 2 field goals.
Go Tigers !!!
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 5:58 PM
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When we beat the drum for 24 hours prior the the first game outside the Clemson House where the other team stayed and when rats could quit wearing the beanies on the day of the first game.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 6:00 PM
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doing the coot/cockerel cheer
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 6:01 PM
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1. Judge Keller's started selling orange overalls.
2. The 'Tiger Rag' / kerchief.
3. Introducing the 'Tiger Paw' logo by hanging it on the wall in Harcombe Commons.
4. The orange straw hats with a purple band.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 6:19 PM
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Baseball team played 25 games a year and freshmen were not allowed to play on varsity.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 6:33 PM
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For me it's when you remember the Hill having a chain link fence.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 6:43 PM
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Last Rat Class to have our heads shaved in 1968.
Play Auburn for Homecoming, loosing badly but winning the party!!!!
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 6:56 PM
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Coat and tie for games...
Bourbon...lots of bourbon...
No games on TV...
Struggling to get up the hill back to the tin cans...
Great times!
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 6:48 PM
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The band played Dixie.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you still have
Apr 13, 2015, 6:51 PM
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your Rat Hat...
P/R Goodie Box
Blue P/R wooden rifle
Straw Hat with Orange Band
Dad's 1941 Class Ring
40 year old Clemson Grad for a Son...
years of memories etched into your heart.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you still have
Apr 13, 2015, 6:52 PM
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oh, one other....
Not being skeered to hitch-hike home AND back inside of 48 hours....
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 7:01 PM
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The hailstorm at the UGA game in 1963.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 7:06 PM
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Watching R. Mahaffey, Jim Sotherland,Joe Ayoob,Hank Channel, and Stick Gardner play Round ball at the old field house beating # 1 Duke at the time.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 7:09 PM
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Watching Rusty Adkins, Eddie Barbery,Keith Waters,George Sutton, Tommy Lyons,Dale Smith and Co. Kick the ##### Posterior.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 7:06 PM
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Double-stacking the beds in Johnstone to get more room.
Double over-and-unders
Yanks and Grits fighting the Civil War between Johnstone D and E sections....
Beer can bazookas and brown toilet paper ammo
40 man hall hockey teams with brooms and a Bud can for a puck
moving the door on your hall supervisors' room to the opposite end of his wall
no high rise dorms
Calling Winthrop from a pay phone and running out of change
Going to Seneca to "The Chicken Shack"
Converting the A/C in the shoeboxes to beer coolers during summer school
Purple and yellow corsages for your game date...
Saturday classes till noon...
Married Stoodint housing where Littlejohn is...
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 7:12 PM
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The Caravelles as well as Bluegrass on the loggia in 64-67.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 7:15 PM
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No freaking AC in the Dorms. I was lucky to stay in New F5 my Jr. & Sr. Yrs. when it was " Air Cooled".
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 7:17 PM
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The Jaberwocky Coffee House in 65-66.
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There were night games before that time. I think the
Apr 13, 2015, 7:13 PM
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PC game was sometimes a night game, also the Miss. St. game Jerry Clower played in. Would'nt bet the ranch, but I saw some games in the late 40's and early 50's at night.
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CU Guru [1116]
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Re: There were night games before that time. I think the
Apr 13, 2015, 7:27 PM
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The "Cub"Room where I first got into powerlifting. 1963.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 7:20 PM
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I really don't feel all that old, but if you say I'm old if I remember no upper decks, then I guess I'm OLD. My first Clemson FB game was November 24, 1962, 3 days before my 10th birthday!!!
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 7:42 PM
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Calling time out to let Sherman march through.....good times.
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Parking your car on the sideline at a football game***
Apr 13, 2015, 7:33 PM
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Orange Blooded [3257]
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Nope......need pictures***
Apr 13, 2015, 9:00 PM
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 7:41 PM
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When you can remember losing to Alabama , 13 - 10 in 1966 or 67. We missed two FGs which could have given us a win over "the Bear." I attended my first Tiger game in 1959 and I believe we beat Wake.
Go Tigers!
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 9:53 PM
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The '59 Wake game was my first. We scored in the last minute or so to beat future 4 time Pro Bowler Norm Snead 33-31.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 10:03 PM
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Thanks for the note on Wake in 1959. This was likely my first Clemson home game, but sadly I can't verify it as my late father took me . I was all of six years old. All of my best early memories of Clemson involved games with my dad. He was class of 1944 and an early IPTAY donor.
Go Tigers!
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Ice chunks the size of your fist
Apr 13, 2015, 7:48 PM
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inside of the coke cups made of PAPER.
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ALL of the cheerleaders were GIRLS
Apr 13, 2015, 8:03 PM
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nope***
Apr 13, 2015, 9:03 PM
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 8:07 PM
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Guess I'm really old as I can remember all those things. Also senior day when the seniors thought they had to destroy the college. Can remember riding my motorcycle up & down both the hills at the valley. Never got caught. Good ole days.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 8:23 PM
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Sliding down the hill on flattened cardboard boxes. After the game, running up to the players asking them for their chin straps so you could use them playing Mite/Midget football in Seneca.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when our 1st
Apr 13, 2015, 8:51 PM
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Undefeated home schedule in 1974. But I was a fan before then.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 8:51 PM
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Students were allowed on the field before the game to form a human tunnel at the foot of the hill.
Students could still purchase decent tickets for their parents the week of the game
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Having acorn fights on the hill......
Apr 13, 2015, 8:58 PM
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Two big white oaks up there. Paid .50 to get in on a "high school" ticket. (I was not in HS yet)
Most of the cheers had words in them that I would get my mouth washed out for using at home.(but got by with using in cheers for the Tigers) A lot of the students wore ties because they got out of Saturday a.m. classes (ties mandatory) and went straight to the game. Ladies wore hats.....really.
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Thanks for the memories. I must be old as none stumped me.
Apr 13, 2015, 9:07 PM
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except a couple stretches of the truth
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I remember one upper deck, Cadence Count ending in
Apr 13, 2015, 9:10 PM
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Fight Tigers, Fight ######, Fight, Fight, Fight!, Jack Daniels handles being passed around the Hill, and Dan Devine getting boo'd so loud that it was staggering.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 10:08 PM
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When they celebrated an undefeated home season with souvenir Cokes in 1974. Overall record 7-4. Now a 7-4 season might get Dabo on the hot seat!
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Stopping at the Anderson exit for Katherine's Kitchen ham
Apr 13, 2015, 10:40 PM
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biscuits and trying to make it in before Bowman field filled up.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 13, 2015, 10:51 PM
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1.Seeing my first game looking through the fence at Riggs field in 1940.
2. Marching into the stadium.
3.Beating the drum 24 hours before Big Thursday.
4.Gator Pharr preaching the chickens funeral before the S. C. game.
5. All cheerleaders were boys(cadets).
6. The undefeated 1948 season.
7. Architect students painted bed sheets showing the tiger engaging the opponent;s mascot in comical
and "suggestive" ways. One example was the tiger clawing a beautiful lady with a caption saying " I am torn to PC's"
before a game with PC.
The lsit could go on and on! Not sure anyone can beat my list.
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^^ I think you win!
Apr 13, 2015, 11:28 PM
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Great list
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Seeing the mammoths herding in the distance
Apr 14, 2015, 12:18 AM
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as the players practiced...
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And...
Apr 14, 2015, 7:58 AM
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some of the silly, cheap souvenirs sold back in the day. I know - I sold a few. Some guy would drive up in a big truck game morning early, and his team would download 'em and us kids would sell them at the little tables. We sold visors for fifty cents on the sunny days.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 14, 2015, 8:47 AM
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Katherine's Kitchen was the best country ham biscuits.
Eating at "The Old House" in Walhalla. Family style and grits came with everything.
Singing "Hang down your head Bill Dooley" to UNC in '74 after destroying them just a day or two after they had accepted a bid to the Gator (I think) Bowl.
Miller for $6.80/case and Miller Lite for $7.20/case at Rabbits in Pendleton.
The Big Indian pinball at Macs.
My first concert was The Temptations in Littlejohn. My older brother was on the Central Dance Association so free tickets. I was still in Jr. High at the time.
Running Parlay cards for a bookie/bartender at Lamars. Always drank free there.
Tigerama ending with the grand finale and Tigers spelled out in fireworks.
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Re: You're an officially old Clemson fan when you remember
Apr 14, 2015, 10:59 AM
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HoJo's beside Katherines @I-85/US76 and "all you can Eat Fish" on Mondays....
Friend of mine met his future wife there when she was a waitress in 1968.
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All games began at 1:00 PM.
Apr 14, 2015, 9:01 AM
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The players walked down the street to the Hill. Freshmen wearing rat caps. The Hill had trees and was mostly kids playing. It was actually safe to let your child play there during the game unsupervised.
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I remember games starting at 2:00pm...
Apr 14, 2015, 10:56 AM
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ending at 4 and being home in Gastonia about 6:30. Traffic was not so bad then. More people per car meant less cars for 43,451 capacity.
And I remember meeting Coach Howard on Sunday am after a game at the Holiday Inn on 123 at the Lake.
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