October 14
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October 14 in Clemson History
- 1900: The Tigers defeat Davidson in the first meeting with that school, 10-0, in a match played in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
- 1905: In home opener on Bowman Field, Clemson ties Tennessee. 5-5, to leave series record at 2-0-2 in the Tigers' favor.
- 1911: Clemson loses home opener on Bowman Field to Auburn, 0-29. The Alabama-based Tigers now lead their South Carolina cousins in the series, 3-4.
- October 11, 1924-October 14, 1924: The last and largest student walk-out in Clemson history, and the greatest challenge of acting President Samuel Broadus Earle's tenure. Student gripes about the quality of food in the mess spiral out of control when the cadet emissary sent to the commandant, Colonel Otis R. Cole, to ask permission for a student meeting is accused of having "liquor on his breath". He is hauled immediately before the discipline committee and suspended for a year. Outraged cadets are refused permission to meet regarding the expelled, a popular student who is senior class president and captain of the football team, but they meet on Riggs Field anyway and draft a petition demanding better food, the dismissal of mess officer J.D. Harcombe, and reinstatement of their dismissed classmate. When Earle refuses their demands, promising only to continue investigating the mess allegations, 500 cadets leave campus on the evening of October 14 in protest. The walk-out results in twenty-three dismissals and 112 suspensions, as well as sixty-five honorable discharges from various classes, and the withdrawal from school of thirty-six students who are unwilling to face the punishments awaiting them when they return to campus. Although the board of trustees commends Earle for not relinquishing his authority to student demands, the toll on the school is a lingering discontent and unwanted bad publicity.
- 1930: Phi Psi meeting held Tuesday night - first stage initiation of new members.
- 1970: The University Concert Series presents Ciro, one of Spain's foremost dancers, in Littlejohn Coliseum.
- 1974: The National Marionette Theatre performs in Daniel Auditorium.
- 2006: Dean Kenneth Notley Vickery dies at his home in Clemson, age 89. He retired from the university in 1982 as Dean of Admissions and Registration and as Vice President for Student Affairs. Vickery Hall is named for him.
- 2007: The Clemson Wiki project Main Page tallies its 34,000th hit.
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