1982

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1982 in Clemson History

[edit] Events in 1982

  • January 1: The Clemson Tigers defeat the Nebraska Cornhuskers, 22-15 in the Orange Bowl for a 12-0 undefeated season, clinching the university's first National Championship. Clemson is only the third team unranked in preseason to attain the top slot in the Associated Press final poll since 1953, Louisiana State in 1958, and Minnesota in 1960. Ironically, LSU's final game of that season was an 0-7 win over Clemson in the January 1, 1959 Sugar Bowl. In 1983, Miami will achieve the same result, as will Brigham Young in 1984. No others do, through 2007.(Reference - Boyles, Bob, and Guido, Paul, "The USA Today College Football Encyclopedia", Sideline Communications Inc., New York, ISBN 978-1-60239-331-8, page 16.)
Coincidentally, "Eye of the Tiger", a song performed by the American rock group Survivor, and taken from the album of the same name, is released on this date. It had been written at the request of Sylvester Stallone for the film Rocky III. The original mix of the song, heard in the film, features tiger growls, though the single omits them.
  • January 11: Tiger player Perry Tuttle is featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine after his touchdown catch in the National Championship game against Nebraska in the Orange Bowl.
  • January 27-January 28: A blast of Arctic weather covers the southeast and Atlantic seaboard. Heavy snow falls in the Carolinas and Georgia and Alabama and stays on the ground for several days. Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. during this storm.
  • February: A former student who vandalized the Reflection Pond in 1978 by driving a front-end loader into the pond is arrested in USMC boot camp after foolishly writing a taunting letter to the university. It is the evidence needed to confirm his identity.
  • March: The greatest prank in Clemson history is pulled by a student who has a penchant for climbing buildings. On two consecutive nights, he rappels from the steeple of Tillman Hall and places large cardboard Mickey Mouse bodies over the spindle of the clock face on two adjoining sides (east and south). He also attaches white-gloved three finger hands to the dials. It takes the university over a week to remove them, using a cherry-picker lift bucket. The guilty party is never apprehended. And - yes - this contributor knows who did it.
  • Clemson is put on three-years football probation by the NCAA for recruiting violations that took place under former Coach Charlie Pell.
  • March 11-March 12: Tina Krebs wins the national championship in the 1,000-meter run at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, at the NCAA Women's Indoor Track Championships. Krebs becomes Clemson's first woman national champion regardless of sport. The Lady Tigers finish 10th as a team.
  • April: Bengal Ball is interrupted by a heavy thunderstorm but the event resumes after it passes.
  • May: Former men's basketball Coach Tates Locke, (1970-1975), publishes book, Caught in the Net, giving his version of his involvement in the recruiting scandal that put the Clemson basketball program on probation in 1975.
  • June 1: The Norfolk Southern Company is created by the merger of the Southern Railway and the Norfolk & Western Railway.
  • July 24: "Eye of the Tiger", by Survivor, tops the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks from this date. Tiger Band's stands folder will never be the same!
  • September 6: Number eleven-ranked Clemson opens season with televised night game at seventh-ranked Georgia, losing, 7-13.
  • September 11: Sixteenth-ranked Clemson ties Boston College, 17-17, in Death Valley.
  • September 25: The Tigers host Western Carolina, win, 21-10.
  • October 2: Clemson hosts Kentucky, and wins, 24-6. Kentucky will go 0-10-1.
  • October 9: The Tigers road trip to Virginia, win, 48-0, in a night game.
  • October 16: Twentieth-ranked Clemson hosts Duke, winning, 49-14.
  • October 23: The eighteenth-ranked travel to Raleigh, defeat N.C. State, 38-29.
  • November 6: Thirteenth-ranked Clemson hosts North Carolina, defeats the Heels, 16-13.
  • November 13: Eleventh-ranked Tigers defeat eighteenth-ranked Maryland Terrapins in College Park, 24-22.
  • November 20: Tenth-ranked Tigers put the hurt on the unranked Gamecocks in Death Valley, 24-6.
  • November 21: The football program at Clemson University is placed on probation for a 2-year period to include the 1983 and 1984 seasons. This sanction was enforced on the program by the NCAA Committee on Infractions due to a lengthy history of recruiting violations to gain an athletic advantage that had taken place from 1977 through the Tigers' 1981 National Championship season and into 1982, under the administration of two head coaches, Charlie Pell and Danny Ford.
  • November 27 (November 28, Tokyo time): The tenth-ranked Tigers defeat Wake Forest, 21-17, in the Mirage Bowl, played in Japan. Clemson finishes with 9-1-1 season record, 6-0 in the ACC for the conference title. The probationary Tigers are ineligible for post-season play but are ranked eighth by the Associated Press final poll.



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