1962

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1962 in Clemson history

  • Repairs on the Old Stone Church completed.
  • January: Harvey Bernard Gantt, an architecture student from Charleston, attending Iowa State University in Ames, applies for admission to Clemson a second time. When he is turned down due to his race, his attorneys file suit in federal court, and upon appeal he is finally admitted.
  • September 22: Clemson opens football season with a road trip to Georgia Tech, but loses, 9-26.
  • September 29: Tigers get a 7-0 win over N.C. State in Raleigh.
  • October 6: Clemson plays at Wake Forest, winning, 24-7.
  • October 13: The Tigers host Georgia, lose, 16-24.
  • October 20: Duke blanks the Tigers, 0-16, in Memorial Stadium.
  • October 27: Auburn defeats Clemson, 14-17, in Death Valley. Greenville native and Class of 1948 graduate, USAF pilot Major Rudolf Anderson, Jr. is shot down by a SAM while flying Lockheed U-2A 56-6676 (Item 343) on a reconnaissance flight over Cuba during the Missile Crisis. He is the only fatality during this critical Cold War face-off with Russia.
  • October 28: The Central Intelligence Agency files a report time-stamped 0200 hours stating that Major Rudolf Anderson, Jr. has been the victim of either an SA-2 or a victim of hypoxia. Actually, it is both - shrapnel from the near miss shattered the pilot's face plate causing Anderson's death almost instantly.
  • October 31: Acting Secretary of the United Nations U Thant returns from Havana meeting with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro and announces that Major Rudolf Anderson, Jr. is dead.
  • November 3: The Tigers defeat North Carolina in Memorial Stadium, 17-6.
  • November 6: Major Anderson is interred in Greenville.
  • November 10: Clemson plays Furman in Greenville, winning, 44-3.
  • November 17: The Tigers get a 17-14 win over Maryland in College Park.
  • November 18: While on a road trip for the Maryland game in College Park, Tiger Band meets President John F. Kennedy at the White House Rose Garden. When he asks them to perform, they have no instruments with them so they sing the Alma Mater for the president. Final year for Tiger Band in cadet grey uniforms.
  • November 24: The Tigers play the Gamecocks for the final game of the season, in Clemson, winning, 20-17. South Carolina will continue to be the Tigers' final regular season opponent from this day forth, still true in 2008. Clemson has 6-4 season, 5-1 in conference play, for second in the Atlantic Coast Conference.



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