1990

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1990 in Clemson history

[edit] Notable Alumni

  • Maj. Gary R. Fullerton - U.S. Marine Corps reservist, killed in mid-air collision of two F/A-18 Hornets over the Columbia River, Oregon, July 21, 2004.


Events that occurred in 1990

  • "Howard" by Frank Howard, Bob Bradley, Virgil Parker, is published by a printing house in Lincoln, Nebraska, softback, with ISBN 0-934904-22-7.
  • Winter: "VISIONS : Clemson's Yesteryears, 1880s-1960s" by History professor Dr. Alan Schaffer, is published by Harmony House Publishers, Louisville, Kentucky, (ISBN 0-916509-55-9).
  • January 11: The USA Today quotes Danny Ford as saying that "one of my unhappiest moments" occurred when the school decided "to spend $2.5 million on a learning center, and [they] could have put all of that into an athletic dorm." (Source: Sperber, Murray, College Sports Inc. - The Athletic Department vs. The University, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1990, ISBN 0-8050-1445-4, pages 264, 390.)
  • January 18: Danny Ford resigns as head coach after eleven seasons. He finishes his Tiger career tied for first in the ACC with 96 victories, and second in winning percentage. He was 96-29-4 overall for a .760 percentage.
  • February: First woman to serve as president of the student body is Tracy Malcolm, who assumes the position when the elected male president resigns.
  • March 9: The Buzzard is published with alleged Volume 83.69, Number 16.123, Supplemental B. Lead headline is "President's mansion really a 'Ho House'".
  • April 22: Dr. Bruce F. Cook retires from the Clemson University Department of the Perfoming Arts after many years leading the Clemson bands, following a final directorial appearance with the Clemson University Symphonic Band in Tillman Auditorium on Sunday, April 22, at 3 p.m. Selections include A Copland Portrait, adapted by Clare Grundman, Robert Russell Bennett's Suite of Old American Dances, John Barnes Chance's Incantation and Dance, William Schuman's When Jesus Wept and Chester, Clemson Department of the Performing Arts Professor Edwin A, Freeman's Lydian Song, John Williams: Evening at Pops, arranged by John Higgins, and John Philip Sousa's El Capitan March.
  • September 1: Famed football coach George Allen (long-time Washington Redskins leader), coaches his last season, leading Long Beach State in opener against tenth-ranked Clemson, but falls, 59-0. He suffers a heart attack and dies in December.
  • September 8: Fourteenth-ranked Virginia finally snaps ninth-ranked Clemson's 29-0 record over the Cavaliers with a 7-20 beating of the Tigers in Charlottesville. ClemsonWiki administrator Mark Sublette finds Virginia-color balloons staked in his front yard in Falls Church, Virginia, planted by the Cavalier Mom across the street. Ah well, it was fun while it lasted!
  • September 15: The tenth-ranked Tigers play Maryland in Memorial Stadium, Baltimore, Maryland, winning, 18-17.
  • September 22: Clemson, ranked seventeenth, hosts Appalachian State, wipes Frank Howard Field with them, 48-0. Poll voters are unimpressed.
  • September 23-September 27: Ken Burns' acclaimed documentary, "The Civil War" is first broadcast on PBS on five consecutive nights from Sunday to Thursday. Forty million viewers watch it during its initial broadcast, making it the most watched program ever to air on PBS, and to this day remaining one of the most popular shows broadcast by PBS.
  • September 29: Nineteenth-ranked Tigers play Duke in Death Valley, win, 26-7.
  • October 6: Clemson, sixteenth in the A.P. poll, plays unranked Georgia in Memorial Stadium, defeats the Dawgs, 34-3.
  • October 13: Ranked fifteenth, the Tigers travel to the big city and play eighteenth-ranked Georgia Tech, with bad result, 19-21. The Jackets will go 11-0-1, and are 1st and 2nd in the final polls.
  • October 20: Clemson, ranked twenty-second in the A.P. poll, plays N.C. State in Raleigh, winning, 24-17.
  • October 27:The nineteenth-ranked Tigers defeat the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, 24-6, for Clemson's 500th victory.
  • November 3: The Tigers, ranked eighteenth, host the twenty-fourth-ranked Tarheels, defeating them, 20-3.
  • November 17: The Gamecocks are defeated in Death Valley, 24-15, as the seventeenth-ranked Tigers conclude a 9-2 regular season. Clemson is 5-2 in conference play, tied for second place in the ACC. Eight key players from this season's team are selected in the NFL draft. (Source: The Sporting News College Football Yearbook, The Sporting News Publishing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 1991, page 67.)



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