1951

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1951 in Clemson History


[edit] Events in 1951

  • Brackett Hall is completed, named after Richard Newman Brackett, a professor of Chemistry at Clemson University from 1891-1937.
  • January 1: Clemson's football team defeats the Miami Hurricanes, 15-14, in the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida for a 9-0-1 season.
  • May 10: The Tiger reports that Mrs. J.G. Lindsay has been named Clemson's Mother of the Year by Tiger Brotherhood. Three-man committee of the Clemson Alumni Association delivers report to the Board of Trustees and the District Engineer, Army Corps of Engineers, condemning the Hartwell Dam project for the potential damage to the college that it represents.
  • August 13-August 18: Farmers' Week Exhibition held on Bowman Field.
  • September 22: As usual, Clemson waxes Presbyterian, 53-6, in a night game in Memorial Stadium.
  • September 29: The Tigers play night game away at Rice, winning, 20-14.
  • October 6: The eighteenth-ranked Tigers defeat N.C. State in a night game played in Raleigh, 6-0.
  • October 13: Sixteenth-ranked Clemson road trips to Pacific, loses night game, 7-21.
  • October 25: The Gamecocks blank the Tigers, 0-20, in Columbia.
  • November 3: Clemson hosts Wake Forest, wins, 21-6.
  • November 10: The Tigers defeat Boston College in Memorial Stadium, 21-2.
  • November 17: Clemson defeats Furman in Greenville, 34-14.
  • November 24: Clemson shuts out Auburn in Memorial Stadium, 34-0, concluding 7-3 season, 3-1 in conference, for fifth place in the Southern Conference.
  • Clemson ends the 1951 football season ranked 20th in the Associated Press poll, but not ranked in the United Press International top twenty.



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