1956

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1956 in Clemson history

  • Dan Gentry opens Dan's Diner in a trolley car on Pendleton Road.
  • The Clemson Foundation is chartered, creating the Alumni Association. Former Clemson Alumni Corporation either merges or lapses.
  • June 17: Clemson Trustee T. Wilbur Thornhill presents a strong resolution to the board condemning the Hartwell Dam project. State Senator Edgar A. Brown uses his position and connections with parties on both sides of the issue to broker an agreement satisfactory to both and the trustees postpone action on Thornhill's resolution.
  • September 22: As usual, Clemson opens at home with Presbyterian, wins, 27-7, in night game.
  • September 29: Clemson ties number ninteenth-ranked Florida, 20-20, in a road game.
  • October 6: Clemson plays night game at N.C. State, wins, 13-7.
  • October 13: The Tigers blank Wake Forest, 17-0, in a road game.
  • October 25: Clemson, ranked number 20, downs South Carolina, 7-0, in Columbia.
  • October 30: Dr. Rupert Howard Fike, IPTAY member number 1, dies.
  • November 3: Number thirteen-ranked Clemson defeats fifteenth-ranked Virginia Tech, 21-6, in Memorial Stadium.
  • November 10: Clemson, ranked number eleven, ties Maryland, 6-6, in College Park.
  • November 16: The Tigers, ranked twelve, are shut out, 0-21, by number eight Florida (Miami) in a road night game.
  • November 19: Clemson begins to fight the campus flooding issue in earnest when the Board of Trustees invite Congressmen and other leaders to tour the threatened areas of the school. Much publicity is received over the event.
  • November 24: Clemson defeats Virginia, 7-0, at home.
  • December 1: The Tigers wrap up 7-2-2 season with a 28-7 win over Furman in Memorial Stadium. Clemson is 4-0-1 in conference play, for first place in the ACC.
  • December: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reluctantly suspends construction on the dam project while water diversion proposals are studied. A proposal for diversionary dam locations published in the December 1956 issue of Clemson Topics, (Volume I, No. 3), shows three, one of which is just north of, and parallel to the Southern Railway Seneca River trestle. This one is never erected.
  • The Clemson football team finishes the 1956 season with a 19th place ranking in the Associated Press poll, but none in the United Press International top twenty.
  • Sigma Alpha Epsilon (or SAE) was founded in Alabama in 1856. At Clemson in 1956 Architecture Professor Joseph L. Young founded the Numeral Society. His goal of the Numeral Society was to create a social organization whose purpose was to design and build a homecoming float for Clemson University. The Numeral Society was the first social fraternity at Clemson University. On April 11, 1970 the Numeral Society accepted a charter from Sigma Alpha Epsilon and officially changed its name. Sigma Alpha Epsilon still is responsible for building the homecoming float that carries the homecoming queen onto the field in Clemson's Death Valley.



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