1953

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1953 in Clemson history

  • The restoration of the Hanover House is aided by the Spartanburg Committee of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America starting this year.
  • May 8: The Atlantic Coast Conference is founded, at the Sedgefield Inn near Greensboro, N.C., with seven charter members : Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina and Wake Forest. The seven schools withdraw from the Southern Conference early that morning, during the Southern Conference's annual spring meeting.
  • June 14: The seven charter members meet in Raleigh, N.C., where a set of bylaws is adopted and they take the official name of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
  • June 17: The final day that steam locomotives are operated in regular duty by the Southern Railway. Last steam-powered freight run arrives in Chattanooga, Tennessee behind Heavy Mikado No. 6330 and the fires are dropped for the final time since Christmas Day, 1830, when the "Best Friend of Charleston" made its first run on the South Carolina Canal & Railroad Company.
  • September 19: Clemson defeats Presbyterian in home opener, 33-7, a night game.
  • September 26: Clemson ties Boston College, 14-14, in Fenway Park.
  • October 3: In the first Atlantic Coast Conference game that Clemson plays, number three-ranked Maryland blanks the Tigers, 0-20, in a night game in Memorial Stadium. The Terps will go 10-1, and win the National Championship - their only title through 2008.
  • October 9: The Tigers lose night game at Miami (Florida), 7-39.
  • October 22: The Gamecocks defeat the the Tigers, 7-14, in Columbia.
  • October 31: Clemson blanks Wake Forest, 18-0, in Memorial Stadium.
  • November 7: The Tigers take on fourteenth-ranked Georgia Tech in Atlanta, lose, 7-20.
  • November 14: The Tigers play at the Citadel, win, 34-13.
  • November 21: Clemson is defeated by Alabama Polytechnic Institute (later Auburn), 19-45, in Memorial Stadium to complete a 3-5-1 season, 1-2 in conference for sixth place in the ACC.
  • December 4: ACC conference officials meet again at the Sedgefield Inn near Greensboro, N.C., and officially admit the University of Virginia.




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