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The Tigers coming down the Hill in 78
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The Tigers coming down the Hill in 78


Oct 9, 2017, 7:52 PM

Here you go. A little nostalgia .The Tigers "charging" down the Hill at the SC game in 78 .I hadn't thought about the entrance being changed with the players loping down the hill in 2's till it was talked about here .I took notice of them skipping down the Hill Saturday and I pointed it out to my brother.No biggie I guess .The Tigers are 6 and 0! Life is good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMNv8X499go

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Origination of the woo hoo at 0:33***


Oct 9, 2017, 7:55 PM



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Re: Origination of the woo hoo at 0:33***


Oct 9, 2017, 8:14 PM

Awesome

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and the little, tiny band


Oct 9, 2017, 7:56 PM

gave them a short run

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Re: The Tigers coming down the Hill in 78


Oct 9, 2017, 8:00 PM

Lol i remember that! Thats some good stuff.
GO TIGER'S!!!!!!!

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Who the h3ll thought it was a good idea to get rid of


Oct 9, 2017, 8:03 PM

the golf cart that looks like a Clemson helmet. That thing is freakin awesome.

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Yeah. I had forgotten about that.***


Oct 9, 2017, 8:40 PM



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Re: Who the h3ll thought it was a good idea to get rid of


Oct 9, 2017, 9:52 PM [ in reply to Who the h3ll thought it was a good idea to get rid of ]

That's exactly what I thought. That is one sweet ride.

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and the orange walls***


Oct 10, 2017, 7:48 PM [ in reply to Who the h3ll thought it was a good idea to get rid of ]



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I love that "FIghting Tigers" banner.


Oct 9, 2017, 8:04 PM

When was that introduced?

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There's something in these hills.


before you were an itch in your papa's


Oct 9, 2017, 8:15 PM

you know...rival of Clemson in Cootlumbia....

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Wow you're...awful.***


Oct 9, 2017, 9:50 PM



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There's something in these hills.


That must have been the fire Marshalls day off


Oct 9, 2017, 8:11 PM

Cause the Hill was legit.

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Pretty sure it was the SCAR game, everywhere was full.


Oct 9, 2017, 8:58 PM

nm

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Re: Pretty sure it was the SCAR game, everywhere was full.


Oct 9, 2017, 9:12 PM

I am pretty sure that was the usuck game. The Tiger wore overalls and during warm ups he had a tote sack full of chicken scratch and walked through the coots throwing scratch at their feet. I also remember at the Wake Forest game one year he went out on their field and picked up their homecoming queen and ran off with her. You don't see good antics like those any more.

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Re: That must have been the fire Marshalls day off


Oct 10, 2017, 7:46 PM [ in reply to That must have been the fire Marshalls day off ]

For real!!! It looked like they were running through a tunnel!

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Look at the TINY tiger paw in center of field...


Oct 9, 2017, 8:13 PM

lol lol...also the tiger helmet on wheels with Mr. Tiger...

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Re: The Tigers coming down the Hill in 78


Oct 9, 2017, 8:16 PM

I wasn't born yet but that's how you run down a hill!!!

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I was there. As I recall that was the 1st game the South


Oct 9, 2017, 8:42 PM

Upper deck was used. No bleachers, just concrete. All the freshman got seats there...

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Me too - That was the team and the year that we really


Oct 9, 2017, 9:20 PM

finally took that leap into the big-time.

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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
- H. L. Mencken


here is the day we let 350K+ balloons go in 1983


Oct 9, 2017, 9:06 PM

same guy's video. Taken from a helicopter. Nice views of campus and Lake Hartwell from that era.

What an amazing spectacle that was.

https://youtu.be/iDjuRuNxjoU

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Central Spirit at its finest.***


Oct 9, 2017, 9:15 PM



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I was there for that one too. Doubt you'd be allowed to


Oct 9, 2017, 9:23 PM [ in reply to here is the day we let 350K+ balloons go in 1983 ]

release all of those balloons now.

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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
- H. L. Mencken


Re: here is the day we let 350K+ balloons go in 1983


Oct 9, 2017, 9:31 PM [ in reply to here is the day we let 350K+ balloons go in 1983 ]

Notice the HILL not a speck of grass to be seen! Great, thanks for the memories!

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Re: here is the day we let 350K+ balloons go in 1983


Oct 9, 2017, 9:49 PM [ in reply to here is the day we let 350K+ balloons go in 1983 ]

That was awsome we got there early and helped students blow the balloons and put the strings on. Great game

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Go Tigers! Once A Tiger Always A Tiger


I released one of these balloons


Oct 10, 2017, 5:55 AM [ in reply to here is the day we let 350K+ balloons go in 1983 ]

The 1978 game was before my Tiger days.

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
--Henry David Thoreau


If it wasn't for me it would have


Oct 10, 2017, 6:39 AM

only been 349,999 baloons and one less dead bird from eating the baloon

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Actually, 363,728 without me***


Oct 10, 2017, 3:13 PM

.

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--Henry David Thoreau


Re: here is the day we let 350K+ balloons go in 1983


Oct 10, 2017, 1:02 PM [ in reply to here is the day we let 350K+ balloons go in 1983 ]

Wow! No tailgating tents! How times have changed!

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I remember being out there very early that morning working


Oct 10, 2017, 4:10 PM [ in reply to here is the day we let 350K+ balloons go in 1983 ]

on those balloons. Great day indeed. Go Tigers!

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Re: here is the day we let 350K+ balloons go in 1983


Oct 10, 2017, 4:39 PM [ in reply to here is the day we let 350K+ balloons go in 1983 ]

that was an awesome day...for the unofficial ACC championship. Maryland won the official championship because we were on probation but we beat Boomer and the Terps 52-27!

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Re: The Tigers coming down the Hill in 78


Oct 9, 2017, 9:09 PM

The Clemson helmet golf cart is awesome

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Dang those guys are about 60 now.


Oct 9, 2017, 9:29 PM

Warren Ratchford (#2) and Jeff Soowal (#52)
leading the way. They used to call Ratchford
Little Rat; he was small but fast.

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Re: Dang those guys are about 60 now.


Oct 9, 2017, 9:47 PM

And players stayed at mid field until the last player ran down the hill. They were pumped every game. Now they run down and go straight to the bench. I miss the players at mid field.

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Re: The Tigers coming down the Hill in 78


Oct 9, 2017, 9:33 PM

That was the 2nd or 3rd Clemson football game my Dad took me to see when I was a kid. It was my first Clemson vs USuC game I attended and boy was I excited - couldn't sleep the night before the game. I remember on the drive in along US76 there were about 15 dead chickens (real ones) hanging by their broken necks from the train trestle. That game was the first time I heard the "cock-a-doodle do" cheer. Boy do I miss having my Dad around for Clemson football games - he would be so happy with what Dabo has done with the program and where we are in the National football picture.

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I prefer the way they used to come down. It was just


Oct 9, 2017, 9:40 PM

better, but that is something that has slowly evolved to what they do now. I'm with you, not a biggie, but was better before.

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and people shoving in behind them rolling up the rug***


Oct 9, 2017, 9:43 PM



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Re: The Tigers coming down the Hill in 78


Oct 9, 2017, 11:13 PM

Whoever had the Ford pickup at 0:03 had THE prime tailgating spot.

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No C-L-E-M-S-O-N***


Oct 9, 2017, 11:20 PM



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That’s beautiful man...


Oct 9, 2017, 11:21 PM

Even if we weren’t exactly a perennial national power yet, that was still a great time to watch Clemson Tiger Football (or listen to Jim Phillips call the game on the radio if you didn’t have tickets because the games usually weren’t on TV).

I love the orange wall with the yard numbers. Again, Death Valley has been greatly updated and improved in 39 years... but it was a great place even then.

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My second Tiger game, first was 1977 ND game in DV


Oct 10, 2017, 5:13 AM

I was on the Hill at 10 yrs old watching a liter of JD get passed all around. Good times. 41-23 Tiger Chicken whipping....the "#### a doodle Doo" cheer was going on all game long. I had a shirt with that cheer on it that my elem. school principal made me turn inside out at Bradley Elem. School in Columbia. My mom, who got my clothes out for me, was a Tiger fan too, lol.

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If you noticed the band- They formed a staright


Oct 10, 2017, 1:42 PM

Line perpendicular to the hill. In the 80's , they started the tradition of staying in the last pregame position until it was time, then marched toward the hill playing " orange bowl march". Once that song was done, the cannon fired simultaneously when the band hit their final tunnel position and tiger rag started. Also, the band started a slant in the tunnel formation, which wasn't there back in this video, slanting towards clemson sidelines because too many football players stared cutting the corner and knocking out band members!

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Why are there so many students on The Hill? That looks


Oct 10, 2017, 1:56 PM

dangerous...

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Haha, I love that they had an antique truck on the field!***


Oct 10, 2017, 1:57 PM



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Re: The Tigers coming down the Hill in 78


Oct 10, 2017, 3:55 PM

Great memories! I was in the band and remember all of that. Great times :)

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