October 23
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October 23 in Clemson History
- 1897: The Tigers beat the Charlotte "Y" in an away game, 10-0, the sole meeting with this squad.
- 1909: In sole meeting with Port Royal, the Tigers win, 19-0, on Bowman Field, for all-time series record of 1-0.
- 1920: Clemson loses roadgame at Knoxville to Tennessee, 0-26.
- 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: The Tigers defeat the Gamecocks, 20-7, in Columbia.
- 1946: The Jungaleers play at a pre-Carolina game dance at the Columbia Township Auditorium, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., with admission $1.50 per person or $2.75 per couple, as reported in The Tiger, October 21, 1946, (Volume XXXIX, Number 39).
- 1947: The Tigers are defeated by the Gamecocks in Columbia, 19-21.
- 1999: Bowden Bowl I - first-ever meeting of father and son head coaches in college football history as Clemson takes on top-ranked Florida State in Death Valley, losing 14-17 to the eventual national champion Seminoles. Largest ever Memorial Stadium crowd - 86,092 - a record that still stands in 2007.
- 2006: "Clemson - There's Something in These Hills" by Trent Allen and Alan Bray, is published by Fort Hill Press, LLC (www.forthillpress.com), ISBN 0-9788583-0-1 - first printing, September 2006 by Electric City Printing Company, Anderson, South Carolina.
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