1963

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1963 in Clemson History

[edit] Notable Alumni

Leon J. (Bill) Hendrix, Life Trustee of the University, current chairman of the Board of Trustees. The Hendrix Center is named for him.

[edit] Events in 1963

The number of women faculty grows to seventeen. (Reel, Jerome V., Jr., "Women & Clemson University: Excellence - Yesterday and Today", Clemson University Digital Press, 2006, ISBN 0-9771263-6-6, page 13.)
January 2: Harvey Gantt becomes the first African-American student at Clemson as the college integrates without the friction seen on other Southern campuses. Gantt will later serve two terms as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina. He also marries the first black Clemson coed - Lucinda Brawley.
June 22: The United States Navy launches SSBN-630, the U.S.S. John C. Calhoun, a Polaris missile submarine, at Newport News, Virginia. The vessel is christened by Miss Rosalie Julia Calhoun, the statesman's great-great-granddaughter, with her father, Admiral William Lowndes Calhoun (Ret.), and mother, Mrs. William Lowndes Calhoun, in attendance. (Cook, Harriet Heffner, "John C. Calhoun - the Man", The R.L. Bryan Co., Columbia, S.C., 1965, Library of Congress Card No. 65-19779, page 2.)
August: Tiger Band drops the cadet uniform for a modified Buckingham Queen's Guardsman-style uniform with big fur Busbee headgear which will be worn through the 1977 season. A purple sash is added to the ensemble, which will prove irresistable to Georgia Tech Rats at Grant Field, Atlanta, leading Tiger Band to always take the long way around the track to their seats, avoiding the Yellowjacket student section.
September 21: Clemson plays number four-ranked Oklahoma away, losing, 14-31.
September 28: Number nine Georgia Tech blanks the Tigers in Atlanta, 0-27.
October 5: The Wolfpack defeats the Tigers, 3-7, in Memorial Stadium.
October 12: Clemson hosts Georgia, ties, 7-7.
October 19: The Tigers travel to Duke, lose, 30-35.
October 26: First win of the season as Clemson defeats Virginia, 35-0, in Charlottesville.
October 30: A team from Clemson takes on a team from Fairfield University, Connecticut, in the General Electric College Bowl, broadcast nationally by NBC. Although the Clemson four lead at the half-way point, 125 to 90, Fairfield wins the match, 200-245. The Clemson team takes home a $500 grant for the school, while Fairfield is awarded $1,500.
November 2: The Tigers host Wake Forest, win, 36-0.
November 9: Clemson gets 11-7 win at North Carolina.
November 16: The Tigers host Maryland, win, 21-6.
November 22: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
November 28: The Clemson-South Carolina game is postponed until Thanksgiving out of deference to the president's funeral events on the scheduled November 24 date. Many other college football games are similarly delayed. Played in Columbia, the Tigers beat the Gamecocks, 24-20, for a 5-4-1 season, 5-2 in conference for third place in the ACC. The Cocks go 1-8. This remains the only Carolina game ever played on Thanksgiving.