1986

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1986 in Clemson history

Events that occurred in 1986

  • A Trivial Pursuit game-playing craze sweeps the campus. (TAPS 1986, Volume 76, page 16).
  • Harlan E. McClure, head of Clemson's school of architecture since 1955, retires and is succeeded by James F. Barker.
  • January 28: On Mission STS-51, the shuttle Challenger launch package explodes 73 seconds into the flight, killing all astronauts on board. The $1.2 billion dollar craft was done in by a $900 synthetic rubber O-ring. President Ronald Reagan cancels his State of the Union address to instead speak to the grief-stricken nation, especially the children.
  • February 23-February 24: Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers perform at Littlejohn Coliseum, with opening act, Star Search winner Sawyer Brown. (TAPS 1986, Volume 76, pages 56-57.)
  • April 1: James L. Lucas, III, Class of 1973, Tiger band grad student member who produced the 1974 edition of The Unhymnal, dies of a heart attack, age 34.
  • August: Tiger Band adopts new "Shako" uniforms with cut-away tunics. The "pith helmet" look is no more.
  • September 13: Virginia Tech defeats the Tigers in Clemson home opener, 14-20. Tech will go 10-1-1.
  • September 20: The Tigers defeat number fourteen-ranked Georgia, 31-28, in Athens.
  • September 27: Clemson defeats Georgia Tech, 27-3, in Atlanta.
  • October 4: The Tigers blank the Citadel in Death Valley, 24-0.
  • October 11: Twentieth-ranked Tigers play night game at Virginia, winning, 31-17.
  • October 18: Seventeenth-ranked Tigers defeat Duke, 35-3, in Memorial Stadium.
  • October 25: Sixteenth-ranked Clemson goes to Raleigh to meet twentieth-ranked N.C. State. Wolfpack wins, 3-27.
  • November 1: Clemson plays at Wake Forest, wins, 28-20.
  • November 8: The Tigers defeat the Tarheels in Death Valley, 38-10.
  • November 15: In a game played in Baltimore, fifteenth-ranked Clemson and Maryland tie, 17-17.
  • November 22: the nineteenth-ranked Tigers and the Gamecocks tie in Death Valley, 21-21. Tigers will have 8-2-2 season, 5-1-1 in conference, for first place in the ACC.
  • December 27: Christmas comes two days late for the Tigers as they win a bowl game for the first time since the 1982 Orange Bowl. Clemson holds off a second-half rally by the Stanford Cardinals in the 42nd Mazda Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, to win 27-21. It is sweet icing on an 8-2-2 season, 5-1-1 in conference to reclaim the ACC crown. Post-season, the Tigers are ranked seventeenth in the Associated Press, nineteenth in the United Press International, and eighteenth in the USA Today.



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