1954

1954 in Clemson history

The Tiger mascot appears on the Clemson sidelines for the first time. He joins the Country Gentleman, a Clemson representative since at least the 1930s.
May 17: The United States District Court for the District of Kansas rules that school segregation on the basis of race is illegal, in decision on the case of Brown versus the Board of Education.
July 10: Future Clemson head football coach Tommy Bowden born in Birmingham, Alabama.
September 18: The Tigers blank Presbyterian, 33-0, in a Memorial Stadium night game.
September 25: In a road trip to Georgia, Clemson is defeated, 7-14.
October 2: The Tigers lose home game to Virginia Tech, 7-18. VPI will have an 8-0-1 season.
October 9: Clemson defeats fourteenth-ranked Florida, 14-7, in a game played in Jacksonville.
October 21: Clemson is defeated by the University of South Carolina, 8-13, in Columbia.
October 30: Clemson meets Wake Forest in Charlotte, North Carolina, winning, 32-20.
November 6: The Tigers defeat Furman, 27-6, in Memorial Stadium.
November 13: In road trip to College Park, the Tigers fall, 0-16, to seventeenth-ranked Terrapins.
November 20: Clemson travels to Auburn, loses, 6-27.
November 27: To round out a 5-5 season, Clemson wallops The Citadel, 59-0, in Memorial Stadium. Tigers are 1-2 in conference, for fifth place in the ACC.
December 4: M-G-M releases cartoon "Dixieland Droopy" in which Droopy directs his 78 rpm record of "Tiger Rag". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTwf7q1-f7E

The 1950's

1955