1892
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1892 in Clemson History
Events that occurred in 1892:
- The Town of Calhoun, South Carolina is chartered (for the first time), the closest railroad mainline stop to the John C. Calhoun Fort Hill plantation.
- David Wistar Daniel graduates from Wofford College. He will serve as an English professor at Clemson College from 1898 to 1947.
- February: Revised target date for opening the college for classes is also missed.
- Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College plays inaugural football season on the plains of Alabama at Auburn.
- November 30: Dr. Henry Aubrey Strode, Clemson's first president, resigns, citing ill health. He becomes a professor of mathematics.
- December 24: South Carolina College fields a hastily assembled football team for a Christmas Eve match against Furman at the Charleston baseball park, but Furman's "Mountain Boys" dump Carolina's "College Boys", 44-0. It will be two more years before South Carolina plays a regular season on the gridiron. (Lander, Jr., Ernest McPherson "Whitey", "A History of South Carolina", The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1960, pages 147-148.)
| 1891 | The 1890's | 1893 |
