October 15
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October 15 in Clemson History
- 1904: Clemson drops the first home game of the season to Auburn, an 0-5 shut-out, giving Auburn a 2-1 series lead.
- 1910: Clemson plays at The Citadel for the first time, and ups series record to 2-0 with a 32-0 shut-out.
- 1920: Clemson loses, 0-21, to Auburn on Riggs Field.
- 1926: Josh Cody named head football coach at Clemson.
- 1930: The Clemson Aero Club holds meeting on Wednesday night. H.D. Martin is elected president. Repairs to the glider are expected to be finished in three weeks.
- 1946: Sixty cadets turn out in the college auditorium (Tillman Auditorium) this night to reestablish a Glee Club after a three-year lapse.
- 1966: ABC sportscaster Keith Jackson calls Clemson's second nationally televised regular season football game in his first season with the network. Clemson defeats the Duke Blue Devils, 9-6. This is the fifth time that a Clemson game has appeared on television.
- 1969: A small, locally organized protest against the U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam in conjunction with a national call-to-action draws some student hecklers and a few minor incidents but is generally successful.
- 1970: Some 250 students rally in the Loggia calling for abolishment of the student dress code.
- 2006 - Following the 63-9 defeat of Temple on October 12, the Tigers maintain their number 12 ranking in all three major polls, as well as being listed twelfth in the first Bowl Championship Series standings released for the season. Georgia Tech, the Tigers' next opponent, is ranked 13th in all three polls. Boston College is 21st in the USA Today/CNN Coaches and Harris Interactive polls, and 22nd in the Associated Press. Wake Forest is 25th in the AP, but all other ACC schools are out of the top 25.
- 2007: Doug Hallenbeck takes over as the new director of housing.
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