1943
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1943 in Clemson history
Events that occurred in 1943:
- The long-gone kitchen building at Fort Hill is rebuilt on its original site using old timbers. (Cook, Harriet Heffner, "John C. Calhoun - the Man", The R.L. Bryan Co., Columbia, S.C., 1965, Library of Congress Card No. 65-19779, page 55.) However, the Fort Hill booklet originally written in 1959 by Harriet Heffner Cook, retired Hostess-Curator of Fort Hill, revised 1970, 1984, by Revelie W. Brannon, Hostess-Curator, 1962-1984, states that the replica kitchen was constructed in 1944 (page 8).
- February 22: Clemson alumnus and international journalist Ben Robertson is killed while en route to his new job, chief of the New York Herald-Tribune's London bureau. His aircraft, a Boeing 314, Pan American "Yankee Clipper", NC18603, crashes into the Tagus River near Lisbon, while on approach to Portugal by way of the Azores. Caught in a storm, the flying boat crashed while attempting an emergency landing.
- Spring: With the distribution of the 1943 edition of TAPS, the yearbook will go moribund for three years due to wartime conditions affecting the college. It will resume with the 1946-1947 school year.
- September 25: Clemson loses home opener to Presbyterian, 12-13.
- October 2: Clemson defeats North Carolina State, 19-7, in a game played in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- October 9: Clemson loses to Virginia Military Institute, 7-12, in a match played in Roanoke, Virginia.
- October 21: The Tigers are defeated by the Gamecocks in Columbia, 6-33.
- October 30: The Tigers lose at home to Wake Forest, 12-41.
- November 6: Clemson defeats Davidson, 26-6, in a road trip.
- November 13: Clemson loses to wartime team, Georgia Preflight, 6-32, in a game played at Greenville, South Carolina.
- November 20: The Tigers conclude the 1943 season with a 6-41 loss to Georgia Tech in Atlanta. The Tigers endure a 2-6 season, 2-3 in conference, for a 7th place tie in the Southern Conference.
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