1958

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1958 in Clemson History

[edit] Events in 1958

In the 1958-1959 recession, the Southern Railway eliminates green and white paint for black and white on its locomotives as an economy move.
South Carolina Botanical Garden's Arboretum is created.
Lee Hall is constructed.
The number of women faculty stands at eight. (Reel, Jerome V., Jr., "Women & Clemson University: Excellence - Yesterday and Today", Clemson University Digital Press, 2006, ISBN 0-9771263-6-6, page 13.)
Chemical Engineering professor William B. Barlage, Jr. joins the faculty. He will become head of the department in November 1975.
May 1: WSBF begins as a closed circuit broadcasting facility transmitting through the electrical wiring of the dormitories.
June 6: President Robert Franklin Poole dies unexpectedly after suffering a heart attack during an alumni reunion weekend.
June 8: At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, Robert Cook Edwards is announced as the new acting president.
September 20: Eighteenth-ranked Tigers open home season with a 20-15 win over Virginia.
September 27: Coach Frank Howard gets his 100th win at Clemson as the Tigers down North Carolina, 26-21.
October 4: Tenth-ranked Tigers defeat Maryland, 8-0, in College Park.
October 11: Ranked eighth, Clemson plays night game at Vanderbilt, wins, 12-7.
October 23: Tenth-ranked Clemson plays South Carolina in Columbia, losing, 6-26.
November 1: Nineteenth-ranked Tigers defeat Wake Forest in Death Valley, 14-12.
November 8: Ranked seventeenth, Clemson travels to Georgia Tech, is shut out, 0-13.
November 15: A Clemson regular season football game is broadcast for the first time, by NBC, the team's second-ever telecast game. The Tigers beat the N.C. State Wolfpack, 13-6.
November 22: The Tigers, ranked sixteenth, host Boston College, winning, 34-12.
November 29: Twelfth-ranked Clemson wraps 8-3 season with 36-19 victory over Furman in Death Valley. Tigers are 5-0 in conference, for first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Clemson football team ends the season ranked twelfth in the Associated Press poll and 13th in the United Press International poll.
December 24: It is announced that the Clemson rug used for running down the hill will accompany the team to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans - all 527 pounds of it.
December 25: Announcers for the upcoming 25th annual Sugar Bowl Classic are announced - Lindsey Nelson and Red Grange will call the game between number one-ranked Louisiana State University, coached by "Pepsodent Paul" Dietzel, and twelfth-ranked Clemson.
Late December: Tiger Band travels from the Clemson depot to New Orleans on the Southern Railway.