1991

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1991 in Clemson History

Events that occurred in 1991:

  • January 1: Clemson shuts out the twenty fifth-ranked Illinois Fighting Illini in the Hall of Fame Bowl in Tampa, Florida, 30-0, for a season record of 10-2, 5-2 in conference for second in the ACC. Season ending polls rank the Tigers ninth in the Associated Press, the United Press International, and the USA Today.
  • The Department of Health Sciences established within the College of Nursing. The nursing discipline is now the Department of Nursing Sciences.
  • Vickery Hall completed.
  • The management of Tiger Town Tavern is finally able to negotiate the purchase of the College Avenue business structures they occupy from absentee owner Ernest Willis who lives in a Potomac River-facing condo in Arlington, Virginia. The T3 management then undertakes a major refurbishment of the property.
  • February 13: William Wright Bryan, Sr. dies of pneumonia in Clemson after a long career as a journalist and Clemson administrator.
  • April 5: Ground is broken for the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts. Rain forces the ceremony indoors to the Strom Thurmond Institute auditorium.
  • July 1: The ACC expands to nine teams as Florida State is admitted.
  • August: The Spitoono music festival moves to the National Guard Armory field.
  • September 7: Eighth-ranked Clemons Mooniversity team opens and closes with Appalachian State, 34-0, in Death Valley.
  • September 21: Still ranked eighth after polls were unimpressed with opening beat-down of a II-A team, the Tigers defeat the Temple Owls, 37-7, in the Valley.
  • September 28: Clemson, seventh in the A.P. poll, edges number nineteenth-ranked Georgia Tech, 9-7, in Memorial Stadium.
  • October 5: Georgia upsets Clemson's number six ranking with a 12-27 loss in an Athens night game.
  • October 12: Eighteenth-ranked Tigers tie Virginia, 20-20, in Memorial Stadium.
  • October 26: Clemson, ranked nineteenth, defeats number twelve N.C. State, 29-19, in Death Valley.
  • November 2: Wake Forest falls to the sixteenth-ranked Tigers, 28-10, in Memorial Stadium.
  • November 9: Fifteenth-ranked Clemson defeats North Carolina, 21-6, in a Chapel Hill night game.
  • November 16: Fifteenth in the A.P. poll for the second week, the Tigers drop Maryland, 40-7, in Death Valley.
  • November 24: Clemson beats the University of South Carolina, 41-24, in Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia. The Cocks will have a 3-6-2 season.
  • December 1: Clemson defeats the Duke Blue Devils in the Mirage Bowl in Tokyo, Japan, 33-21, 9-1-1 regular season, 6-0-1 in conference, to clinch the ACC title. Tiger Band wears specially provided gold-fabric uniforms during their performance. Biiru o mo ippon kudasai !



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