November 11

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November 11 in Clemson History

• 1905: The Clemson-Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn) game, played in Alabama, is called on account of darkness with the Tigers on top, 26-0. This ties the series at 2-2.
• 1918: A final Armistace goes into effect, ending the Great War.
• 1920: Clemson defeats the Citadel, 26-0, in a game played in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
• 1930: Thornwell Haynes, noted journalist, speaker, and former member of the diplomatic service, addresses the corps of cadets in an Armistace Day observation in the chapel. The YMCA auditorium picture is "The Big House". Admission is two bits.
• 1946: Capt. John Douglas J.D. Harcombe, mess officer at Clemson for 26 years, dies at home early Monday morning, following several months of poor health, age 64. Arriving in 1920 as an experienced Army mess officer, he oversaw feeding a corps that grew from 847 to ~3,000 students.
• 1970: Students are outraged to discover University Police breaking into parked cars, ostensibly to move them.
• 1972: Raymond Berry Oakley III, bass player and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, is killed in a motorcycle collision with a city bus in Macon, Georgia, only one block from where Duane Allman died on October 29, 1971.
• 1974: Student Senate votes emergency funding of $6,900 for two issues of The Chronicle. The staff had requested funds for three issues.
• 1977: The Union sponsors November Nonsense on Bowman Field, featuring the world's largest chocolate cream pie, sixteen feet in diameter, as well as a Volkswagen Beetle-stuffing contest. Also, President R.C. Edwards makes appearance at the Friday evening pep rally in the Amphitheatre and pleads with students not to disturb the Notre Dame team at their hotel parking lot by taking a pep rally there, after irritation at Irish Coach Dan Devine for writing a letter to the ACC that week complaining about our vaunted crowd noise in the stadium. Let them get their rest and we will have a fair game, is the president's message.
• 2006: Clemson Baseball hosts a tailgate picnic at Doug Kingsmore Stadium 2 1/2 hours prior to kick-off of the N.C. State game at noon, as part of the Clemson Tiger Alumni Baseball Game reunion weekend events. The football match versus the Wolfpack is aired on the Lincoln Financial Network (formerly Jefferson-Pilot). Clemson defeats N.C. State, 20-14. The Men's Basketball team takes on Monmouth in Norfolk, Virginia at 6:30 p.m., winning 77-65.

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