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CU Guru [1709]
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Toughest Tigers ever?
Apr 30, 2020, 10:19 PM
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That’s pound for pound please.
Wayne Gallman Tracy Johnson Tony Horne Brandon Streeter Marvin Sims Michael Dean Perry Jeff Davis Terry Allen
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Oculus Spirit [77397]
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
Apr 30, 2020, 10:28 PM
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Streeter and then everyone else.
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
May 1, 2020, 8:31 AM
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True on Streeter. I recall him dislocating his hip and then playing the next week I think
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Legend [16577]
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Patrick Sapp. Raymond Priester. Ben Boulware.***
Apr 30, 2020, 10:57 PM
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
Apr 30, 2020, 10:59 PM
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Grady went to the sideline against UGa, popped his shoulder back in joint, and got back on the field one play later.
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Oculus Spirit [77397]
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
Apr 30, 2020, 11:17 PM
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I implore all of you gentlemen.... Brandon should have left most every game on stretcher. He was the toughest that ever wore the paw.
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
Apr 30, 2020, 11:17 PM
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Tony Elliott. Andre Ellington was pretty #### tough too. Chad Diehl was a human sledgehammer too.
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
May 1, 2020, 4:56 AM
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Chad was a stud that not many got to see simply because of offensive philosophy. He would’ve made a great living as a fullback in the late nineties. Born a few years too late.
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
Apr 30, 2020, 11:17 PM
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Tony Elliott. Andre Ellington was pretty #### tough too. Chad Diehl was a human sledgehammer too.
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
Apr 30, 2020, 11:17 PM
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Tony Elliott. Andre Ellington was pretty #### tough too. Chad Diehl was a human sledgehammer too.
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
Apr 30, 2020, 11:25 PM
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Deshaun ending the streak on a torn ACL and he took multiple helmet to helmet hits against Bama.
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Oculus Spirit [77397]
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
Apr 30, 2020, 11:32 PM
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Deshaun is up there and has the heart of a lion. Took some fierce shots.
Brandon still owns the crown. That man took the worst kind of beating on 3/4 downs.
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
Apr 30, 2020, 11:43 PM
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pound for pound, maybe Deshaun. But for me Brian Dawkins would have terrified me to play against
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
Apr 30, 2020, 11:44 PM
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Whitehurst was a gamer . Woody Dantzler , Brentson Buckner ... how about non-football players ?
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
May 1, 2020, 12:05 AM
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True, true, true.
Just refresh the Oline memory that three years though. It was tragic. Brandon just kept getting up.
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
May 1, 2020, 4:44 AM
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Tajh Boyd, and that was easily proved in the 2012 Chick-fil-A Bowl against LSU!!! I don't think I've ever seen a QB take a beating like TB did that night, and he kept getting up and willed our Tigers to a win!!! Most QB's would have been taken to the locker room and patched up before taking them to the hospital to be checked out, and Tajh just kept getting up and making plays!!!
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Got to mention Whitehurst for the 2002 Tangerine Bowl.
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May 1, 2020, 5:43 AM
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Took quite a beating, and stayed in for the whole 55-15 loss. If I remember correctly, he was spitting up blood on the field after at least one play.
I was one of the announced crowd of 21,000 that night. Unbelievable game. TT had a crowd that looked like maybe about 3,000...but they had us outnumbered by the end of the game. Now I’m glad it all happened that way. Makes the current success 1000x more enjoyable.
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I was there. CW got CRUSHED - and he kept getting back up.
May 1, 2020, 10:05 AM
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Toughest performance I have ever seen in person.
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Bennie Cunnigham & Kevin Mack***
May 1, 2020, 7:46 AM
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Plenty of them but ill give some love to
May 1, 2020, 7:50 AM
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Tajh Boyd
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Orange Blooded [4515]
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Whitehurst took some
May 1, 2020, 8:43 AM
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beatings and kept getting up.
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I always thought Nuk was tough for a wide receiver.***
May 1, 2020, 8:46 AM
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This isn’t a true list without
May 1, 2020, 9:37 AM
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Jim Stuckey and Rob Bodine
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I remember the beating Whitehurst took in that bowl. There
May 1, 2020, 9:54 AM
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was a similar game with Brandon Streeter vs Va Tech. Their DE Corey Moore blitzed the whole game it seemed like. He was a beast, and came thru clean a bunch of times and just leveled Streeter. Helmet to the sternum. Damm near broke him in half a couple times. I have a good friend who's a Hokie, and I emailed him the next day. I asked if Moore wanted the pieces of his facemask back that were surgically removed from Streeter's ribcage...
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Orange Blooded [4109]
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Re: I remember the beating Whitehurst took in that bowl. There
May 1, 2020, 12:10 PM
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Never understood how Moore didn't catch on in the NFL.
He was unstoppable in college.
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
May 1, 2020, 10:08 AM
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Ashamed of ya'll. Brian #### Dawkins
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Hal Davis
May 1, 2020, 10:34 AM
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belongs on the list. He loved to take on D-backs in the open field. I never saw him avoid contact..... instead, he looked for it and ran over the defender in the open field. If he didn't knock him down on the first contact, he'd back up and go at him again.
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Harry Olszewski
May 1, 2020, 10:40 AM
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belongs on the list, too:
https://clemsontigers.com/clemson-vault-harry-olszewski-tiger-all-american/Clemson Vault: Harry Olszewski, Tiger All-American It’s every offensive lineman’s dream. The dream is of one moment carrying the ball and scoring a touchdown. This happened one autumn afternoon 48 years ago in Death Valley in a game against arch rival South Carolina. A Clemson win in this game would mean the second consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference Championship for the Tigers. The Tigers had a 21-10 lead in the fourth quarter and were driving deep in South Carolina territory. On a first down play on the Gamecock 12-yard line, Tiger quarterback Jimmy Addison was set to take the snap from center and flip it back to tailback Buddy Gore. Instead, the ball went straight up in the air, right through Addison’s hands. Without breaking a stride, guard Harry Olszewski who was pulling on the play from the right, grabbed the ball in mid air and rushed 12 yards for a touchdown. With the extra point, the Tigers took a commanding 28-10 lead. Clemson would score another touchdown and would win the game 35-10. To illustrate how unusual this play was, a Clemson offensive lineman has scored a touchdown just once since Olszewski’s touchdown on November 26, 1966. In the Georgia Tech game on October 30, 2011, Clemson offensive lineman Brandon Thomas recovered a fumble for a touchdown in the fourth quarter. Olszewski had a noted football career. He was a first-team All-American in 1967 according to the Football Writers Association, the American Football Coaches Association, United Press International and the Walter Camp Foundation. He also was named second-team All-American by the Association Press and Sporting News. The native of Baltimore, MD was a third-round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns in the 1968 draft. Olszewski started all 30 games of his Clemson career at offensive guard and the Tigers won the ACC Championship all three seasons (1965-66-67). He received many honors during his collegiate career. He was the recipient of the Jacobs Blocking Trophy for the state of South Carolina and for the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1967. He was an All-ACC selection in 1966-67 and was a member of the ACC’s Silver Anniversary team. He was also chosen as a starting offensive guard on Clemson’s Centennial Football team. Olszewski was also a member of the State of South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame as well as the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame. Known to his teammates as “Big O”, Olszewski earned the praise of former Clemson offensive line coach Don Wade. “He is one of the best offensive linemen I have ever coached,” said Wade in a 1967 interview. “Not only does he play a big part in keeping the spirit high, he also leads a majority of our running plays with his superb blocking. “His speed and agility are apparent when our offense is pulling his way. He can do it all, block from all sides, pull, slant—you name it. “Things pick up when Harry is in there,” said Wade. “He consistently grades high in his blocking. He always gives 100 percent and isn’t satisfied unless he’s at his best.” Sadly, Olszewski died of a heart attack on April 27, 1998 in Fort Lauderdale, FL at the age of 51. He will always be remembered as one of Clemson’s greats.
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DW4 Toughest Ever....Dude is a Cyborg***
May 1, 2020, 10:49 AM
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
May 1, 2020, 10:51 AM
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Don Munson
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
May 1, 2020, 11:00 AM
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go back a ways to a couple under sized guys.. jimmy ness and billy wingo
and david dunham.. anybody who played special teams like that was a tough SOB.
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
May 1, 2020, 11:15 AM
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Everyone of you have named great players and pointed out their toughness. No one has yet mentioned quite possibly the toughest player to ever pull on a helment at Clemson. Ray Yauger, Howards tractor.
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white boy cornerback, jack ocain? on the pre natty 6-5 team
May 2, 2020, 9:51 PM
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in seventy nine or eighty, he would knock the Shyatt out of somebody, knock his own shoulder out of socket, run off the field , somebody would pop it back into place , and then he would run out and do it again ,...
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Re: white boy cornerback, jack ocain? on the pre natty 6-5 team
May 2, 2020, 11:29 PM
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I think you are talking about Jack Cain.
Brian Piccolo winner in 1980. I actually looked him up for this conversation but received a phone call and failed to go back and post it.
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Re: white boy cornerback, jack ocain? on the pre natty 6-5 team
May 3, 2020, 10:44 PM
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yes, it was jack cain , one tough cookie
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Terry Allen
May 2, 2020, 9:54 PM
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Period.
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I'm glad you asked
May 4, 2020, 4:09 PM
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Tajh Boyd no doubt. LSU bowl game sold me completely. And I say top 3 single game Clemson QB performances ever.
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Re: I'm glad you asked
May 4, 2020, 5:08 PM
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Jack Cain wasn’t very big, but his teammates felt that, pound for pound, he was as tough as they came. But I can’t get away from Streeter!
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Re: Toughest Tigers ever?
May 4, 2020, 7:42 PM
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I was always impressed by the hard hitting linebacker from Plano, Texas; John Leake. Was a rare recruit from Texas football in the 2000 time period.
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