1957

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1957 in Clemson History

[edit] Events in 1957

  • The Dixie Skydivers are founded, the oldest collegiate parachute club in the nation.
  • January 1: The Clemson Tigers face the Colorado Buffaloes for the first time in the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, losing 21-27 for a 7-1-3 season record. Attendence is given as 73,280. (DiMarco, Anthony C., "The Big Bowl Football Guide", G.P Putnam's Sons, New York, 1974, revised edition 1976, ISBN 399-11800-4, pages 80-81.) This is also Clemson's first televised football game, aired on CBS. The Tigers are ranked nineteenth. Clemson will even the record in another bowl game in 2005.
  • March: Congressional hearings are held in Washington, D.C. addressing the Hartwell Dam flooding issues.
  • July: Work resumes on the Hartwell Dam, without notice to the university. But plans for two diversionary dams and one dike west of the campus are carried out, isolating a portion of the original Seneca River bed and a new channel for the lake being excavated behind a hill. In an agreement worked out between the College and the Corps, the integrity of the campus is maintained and the school receives more than a million dollars in recompense for lost bottom lands.
  • Lee Hall is constructed.
  • September 3: Major Rudolph Anderson, Jr. first qualifies on the Lockheed U-2, a classified high-altitude reconnaissance jet aircraft.
  • September 21: In final meeting with Presbyterian, the Tigers rule, 66-0. PC will go 0-8-1.
  • September 28: The Tigers are blanked by North Carolina on a road trip, 0-26.
  • October 5: Clemson is defeated by thirteenth-ranked N.C. State in Memorial Stadium, 7-13.
  • October 12: The Tigers defeat Virginia, 20-6, in Charlottesville.
  • October 24: Clemson shuts out South Carolina, 13-0, in Columbia.
  • November 2: The Tigers play a night game at Rice, winning, 20-7.
  • November 9: Clemson defeats Maryland in Memorial Stadium, 26-7.
  • November 16: The fourteenth-ranked Tigers play the eleventh-ranked Duke Blue Devils in Durham, losing, 6-7.
  • November 23: Clemson hosts Wake Forest, wins, 13-6. The Demon Deacons will go 0-10.
  • November 30: The Tigers defeat Furman in Greenville, 45-6, completing 7-3 season, 4-3 in conference, tied for third in the ACC.
  • The football team finishes the season with an 18th position ranking in the United Press International poll, but no slot in the Associated Press top twenty.



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