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3 unusual facts about Memorial Stadium, Clemson


Clemson–Florida State football rivalry

The first meeting in 1999 was the largest crowd ever to watch a game at Memorial Stadium at Clemson University with an attendance of 86,200.

Clemson–South Carolina football brawl

The incident took place on November 20, 2004 at the Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina.

Lake Hartwell

The next challenge took place in late 1956 when Clemson College objected to the damage that would be done to its property as a result of the impounded water in the reservoir, including plans that would flood Memorial Stadium.


2002 Tangerine Bowl

After Clemson forced a safety, Wes Welker scored on a 59-yard punt return to make it 31–2, Texas Tech.

2006–07 Bristol Rovers F.C. season

17 January: Bristol City Council grant planning permission for a new 18,000 capacity all-seater stadium to be built on the site of the Memorial Stadium.

2008 Chick-fil-A College Kickoff

Clemson's redshirt senior quarterback, Cullen Harper, completed 20 of 34 passes but had no touchdowns and one interception.

2011 ACC Championship Game

Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd was named the game's most valuable player, after completing 20–29 passes for 240 yards and three touchdowns.

2011 Kansas Jayhawks football team

The Jayhawks were led by second year head coach Turner Gill and played their home games at Memorial Stadium.

Aquilla J. Dyess

Dyess graduated from Clemson College, Clemson, South Carolina, in 1932 with a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture.

Austin Marathon

The 2012 race starts on Congress Avenue, just a few blocks north of the Texas State Capitol, and touches well-known Austin landmarks and areas, such as downtown, the Colorado River, the 78704 zip code, Hyde Park, and the University of Texas at Austin campus, passing by Memorial Stadium.

Blue Ridge and Atlantic Railroad

The uncompleted Stumphouse Mountain Tunnel remains and was used for many years as an ideal place to make and store blue cheese by Clemson University (formerly Clemson College).

Brian Maxwell

Located just north of UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium, the field serves as home to the university's hockey, football and lacrosse programs.

Clemson–Florida State football rivalry

The rivalry lives on past the departure of Tommy Bowden, who was replaced mid-season by Wide Receivers and Interim Head Coach Dabo Swinney in 2008.

Clemson–Georgia Tech football rivalry

For the first time in the series' history, the two teams met for a second time in a season on December 5, 2009 in the ACC Championship Game.

Clemson–South Carolina football brawl

The fight overshadowed the last game Lou Holtz participated in as South Carolina's head coach, as he retired at the end of the season.

Coaches All-America Game

Lubbock won the bid to host the game over newer stadiums in larger cities, including Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee and San Diego Stadium in San Diego, after the AFCA was convinced that Lubbock's advantages as a college town without competing entertainment would fill the stands with existing college football fans from West Texas.

Colorado–Nebraska football rivalry

#9 Colorado traveled to Memorial Stadium in Lincoln to play the #3 Cornhuskers yet again for the Big 8 Championship in 1990.

Crash Dive

The USS Semmes (AG-24 ex-DD-189) is seen in one shot; there are probably not many good Technicolor views of a four-stack destroyer available today.

Danny Ford

Joe Kines brought Ford to the University of Arkansas in 1992 to help with the clean-up following Frank Broyles' firing of Jack Crowe (Ford's former offensive coordinator at Clemson) after a loss to the Citadel.

Deep South's Oldest Rivalry

In 1942, Georgia won the national championship with an 11-1 record, beating UCLA in the 1943 Rose Bowl, Georgia lone loss came to Auburn, falling 27-13 at Columbus's Memorial Stadium.

Eric A. Morris

In addition to teaching and research at Clemson, Morris writes about transportation for the "Freakonomics" blog.

Floride Calhoun

Soon after their marriage, her husband was elected to Congress, leaving his wife in charge of his plantation, "Fort Hill," in present-day Clemson, South Carolina.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

I. M. Ibrahim, head coach of the Clemson University men's soccer team

Illinois–Missouri football rivalry

For the majority of the history of the series, it had traded off between Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois, and Faurot Field in Columbia, Missouri.

Kip Janvrin

Janvrin won the decathlon at the 1989 Olympic Festival with 7,863 points held at Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma.

Memorial Stadium, Asheville

Memorial Stadium is not to be confused with the similarly named Asheville High School Memorial Stadium.

Mesquite Tower

It stands between West Mesquite High School and Memorial Stadium.

Missouri–Nebraska football rivalry

Historically, the rivalry was a favorite among fans of both teams, resulting in many of the record-setting crowds at both Faurot Field in Columbia and Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.

2 Beginning of the continuing NCAA-record sellout streak at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Nebraska–Oklahoma football rivalry

The 1923 game, only the fifth time these teams met, marked the first game played in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Old Stone Church

Old Stone Church and Cemetery, Clemson, South Carolina, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Paul Dietzel

Dietzel's 1958 LSU team concluded an 11–0 season with a win over Clemson in the Sugar Bowl and was a consensus national champion.

Redneck Performing Arts Association

No admission is charged to the family-friendly event, held since 1991 at the Clemson National Guard Armory in Pendleton, South Carolina.

Riggs Field

The original configuration of the track and former football stadium, sans bleachers, was featured in a long scene in the latter portion of the 1974 Burt Lancaster movie The Midnight Man, filmed in part at Clemson University in 1973.

Sam Gargan

He made his Football League and Brighton debut on 26 April 2008, coming on as an 85th minute substitute for Glenn Murray during the 2-0 away victory over Bristol Rovers at the Memorial Stadium.

Terry Don Phillips

He also promoted Dabo Swinney to head football coach and oversaw the "WestZone" expansion of Memorial Stadium in 2006.

Thomas Green Clemson

Though this plot of land did not do well while Clemson was abroad in Belgium, he was furthering his studies in the field of Agriculture.

Thomas Green Clemson, (July 1, 1807 – April 6, 1888) was an American politician and statesman, serving as an ambassador and the United States Superintendent of Agriculture.

University of South Carolina steroid scandal

The article begins with Tommy Chaikin, a defensive lineman on the University of South Carolina football team, vividly narrating his steroid-induced experiences the day before the annual South Carolina-Clemson football game in 1987.

Vinny Ciurciu

After head coach Tommy West was fired from Clemson, Tommy Bowden was hired as head coach, and brought in a new offensive plan.

Wally Bunker

So popular had Bunker become in his rookie season that Baltimore mayor Theodore McKeldin, prior to a June 17 game at Memorial Stadium, proclaimed the mound "Baltimore's Bunker Hill"—even christening it with a handful of earth from the actual Bunker Hill.

West Mesquite High School

Memorial Stadium, is on campus along with the Mesquite Tower which broadcasts the school district's own radio station, KEOM.


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