1941

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Events in Clemson history

  • The Southern Railway replaces most steam power with diesel locomotives on the Crescent.
  • January 8: President Emeritus Enoch Walter Sikes dies in Clemson.
  • April 3: The South Carolina General Assembly ratifies act authorizing a $150,000 bond issue for a new athletic stadium at Clemson. Bill goes to Governor Maybank for signature.
  • September 17: Clemson athletic officials announce that construction on the $104,000 new stadium project will begin soon.
  • September 20: In Clemson home opener, Presbyterian actually scores for the first time in six meetings, but still loses to the Tigers, 41-12.
  • September 27: The Tigers meet Virginia Military Institute in Lynchburg, Virginia, winning, 36-7.
  • September 30: Eastern Air Lines begins first air service into Anderson, using flying field in the Brushy Creek area. Present for the event is R.W. Pickens, the last surviving Confederate veteran in Anderson County. Born in 1847, he dies at age 101 in 1948.
  • October 4: In a match played in Charlotte, North Carolina, Clemson drops N.C. State, 27-6.
  • October 6: Work begins on the site of Memorial Stadium including cleaning, digging and leveling the site, supervised by Frank Howard.
  • October 11: The Tigers play Boston College in Fenway Park, winning 26-13.
  • October 23: Going into Big Thursday, Clemson has achieved a number 14 ranking. It won't help. Tigers go down to the Gamecocks, 14-18, in Columbia.
  • October 31: The Tigers defeat the GWU Colonials in a night game in Washington, D.C., 19-0.
  • November 15: Clemson defeats Wake Forest, 29-0, in the last football game played on Riggs Field.
  • November 22: The 18th-ranked Tigers play Furman in Greenville, winning, 34-6.
  • November 29: Clemson takes 16th-ranking to Auburn, but loses, 7-28. Clemson has 7-2 record, 5-1 in Southern Conference, for 3rd place.
  • December 7: Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, at 12:35 p.m. Eastern Time, forces the country out of an isolationist attitude.
  • December 8: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issues a proclamation of war to the United States Congress.



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