October 22

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October 22 in Clemson History

  • 1897: A resolution is adopted by the three societies to have inter-society debate every two weeks. (The Chronicle, December 1897, V.1, N.3, pages 44-45).
  • 1900: Clemson shuts-out Wofford in road game, 21-0, the second time these teams meet. Tigers lead series, 2-0.
  • 1904: In the eighth meeting between the two teams, Clemson defeats Georgia on Bowman Field, 10-0, putting the Tigers ahead in the series, 5-3.
  • 1910: Clemson travels to Auburn and is blanked, 0-17. The Alabama cousins will enjoy a 6-1 season. They also take series lead, 4-3, from Clemson.
  • 1914: In fourth game of the season, the Tigers get their first win, shutting out Furman, 57-0, in Greenville. The first meeting with Furman since 1902, the Tigers lead the series, 3-0.
  • October 19, 1922-October 25, 1922: The 5th Southern Textile Exposition is held at Textile Hall in Greenville, South Carolina. A document from this event is preserved in the scrapbook of Cadet John Murphy Cook of Fort Mill, South Carolina, class of 1924, in the Special Collections at the Strom Thurmond Institute.
  • 1930: AIEE trip to the Saluda Power Development near Columbia. Some sixty cadets under the charge of Prof. Sam Rhodes make the visit. Student George Toth, sophomore, of Carteret, North Carolina, is injured in an auto accident near Charlotte when another vehicle swerved across the road on the night of October 22. Five other students in the vehicle were uninjured. Toth is recovering from a fractured skull in the Charlotte Sanitarium.
  • 1936: The Tigers blank the Gamecocks, 19-0, in Columbia.
  • 1942: The Tigers defeat the Gamecocks in Columbia, 18-6, for Clemson's 200th victory. The Cocks will end the season with a 1-7-1 record.
  • 1953: The Gamecocks defeat the the Tigers, 7-14, in Columbia.
  • 1962: President John F. Kennedy announces at 7 p.m., E.T., on nationwide television that intermediate range ballistic missiles have been discovered in Cuba, 90 miles off the Florida tip. This is the first public warning of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • 2000: Clemson's last top ranking in the ACC until October 15, 2006.
  • 2006: Following decisive defeat of 13-ranked Georgia Tech, 31-7, the Tigers rise to tenth in the nation in the Associated Press poll, eleventh in the USA Today/CNN Coaches poll, and holds at 12th in the Harris Interactive poll.
  • 2008: A Night with Steve Miller Band, classic rock icon, live at Littlejohn Coliseum at 7pm. Go to [1] for more info.


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