1948

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[edit] The Class of 1948

[edit] Notable Alumni

[edit] Events in 1948

Presbyterian College Coach Lonnie McMillian declares that taking his team into Clemson Memorial Stadium is like going into Death Valley.
February 22: The State newspaper in Columbia publishes article about a Confederate flag flap that occurred at Clemson on March 12, 1904, including interviews with alumni who were present, on the occasion of their reunion. (Unpublished files, J.C. Littlejohn papers, Folder 62, Special Collections, Strom Thurmond Institute.)
April 2: Future Clemson Football Coach Danny Ford born in Gadsden, Alabama.
The Clemson Theatre opens on College Avenue (Six Mile Road), the town's first commercial movie house.
September 25: Clemson plays its first home night game as the Tigers crush Presbyterian, 53-0.
October 2: The Tigers defeat N.C. State in Memorial Stadium in their second home night game, 6-0.
October 9: In a road trip, Clemson defeats Mississippi State, 21-7.
October 21: The fourteenth-ranked Tigers defeat South Carolina, 13-7, in Columbia.
October 29: The thirteenth-ranked Tigers defeat Boston College, 26-19, in a night game played at Braves Field.
November 6: The twelfth-ranked Tigers blank Furman, 41-0, in Memorial Stadium.
November 13: Clemson, ranked tenth, takes on nineteenth-ranked Wake Forest in a road trip, winning 21-14.
November 20: The ninth-ranked Tigers host Duquesne, shuts them out, 42-0. Frank Howard is presented with a new black Dodge sedan. ("Clemson: Where The Tigers Play", by Sam Blackman, Bob Bradley and Chuck Kriese, Sports Publishing, L.L.C., 2001, page 42).
November 27: The eleventh-ranked Tigers play Auburn in Mobile, Alabama, winning, 7-6. Clemson accepts a bid to play in the 1949 Gator Bowl.
December 4: With a 20-0 blanking of The Citadel in Charleston, the tenth-ranked Clemson football team achieves the first undefeated season since 1900 and will play the Missouri Tigers in the Third Annual Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida on January 1, 1949.
December 6: Frank Howard is named Southern Conference Coach of the Year, his first of three such crowns in his career.