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Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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Outstanding! Thanks O.J.
53 days until the spring game
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200 - LA Rams Picked Clemson Center Bill Thomas was the 200th Pick in 1958 Draft
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Interestingly, however, he signed instead with the AFL’s Boston Patriots (see below).
According to FayetteCountySportsHallofFame.com (from Fayette County, Pennsylvania) Thomas originally went to Tennessee before coming back home to Pennsylvania:
“I came back home because of the girl who I eventually married. I went to work at the brickyard down in Layton and then Clemson got interested in me. They got in touch with me and I went down to Clemson to look it over and I remember getting off the airplane in Greenville, SC and it was so hot I could hardly stand it. I wondered how in the world they could play football in this heat, but I decided to play there.”
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Thomas played freshman ball for the Tigers in 1955.
“I played fullback as a freshman,” Thomas offered. “I started at fullback and then when I got to the varsity they moved me to defensive linebacker and offensive center.”
Thomas played on some outstanding teams at Clemson.
In his sophomore year 1956: Clemson was 7-2-2 overall and 4-0-1 in the ACC for 1st in the conference. Clemson lost to Colorado in the Orange Bowl and was ranked 19th (AP) in the final poll.
As a junior in 1957: The Tigers went 7-3 overall and finished 3rd in the ACC; ranked 18th (UPI) in the final poll.
In his senior season 1958: Clemson was 8-3 overall and 5-1 in the ACC to finish 1st; lost to LSU in the Sugar Bowl; ranked 12th (AP) and 13th (UPI) in the final polls.
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Thomas garnered second team All-ACC honors at center in 1958. Crusty Frank Howard led the Clemson football fortunes in those days and Thomas says he was quite a guy.
“He was quite a character,” Thomas stated. “He was tough, but if you played for him – there wasn’t a better guy. After I was out of school and before he died, I used to take him to banquets when he spoke. He couldn’t drive and he was in demand for speeches. He was a great story teller and he had that Alabama drawl. I was with him right until the end.”
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When Thomas graduated he had an opportunity to play Pro football.
“I got drafted by Los Angeles and I couldn’t get together with them on the money,” Thomas remembered. “Then the AFL Boston Patriots started the next year and I went there and I got cut by Lou Saban and I came back to Clemson and went in the banking business.”
Thomas stayed in the banking business in South Carolina for 20 years and then went into his own business with a carpet cleaning company and he retired in 2007.
http://fayettecountysportshalloffame.com/2016/thomas.html
Also, of note: Center Bill Thomas was the team captain of 1959 Clemson team that defeated #7 TCU in the Bluebonnet Bowl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Clemson_Tigers_football_team
Bill Thomas is #75:
The others:
Clemson's, back left, Joe Bowen (46), Bill Hudson (45), Hampton Hunter (64), Pete Wall (85), front row, Bill Thomas (75), J. Steinbrecher (47), and Earl Greene (87) during the 1955 media day.
(From: The Independent Mail:
https://www.independentmail.com/picture-gallery/sports/2018/04/12/clemson-football-media-day-1955/33776757/)
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Re: 200 - LA Rams Picked Clemson Center Bill Thomas was the 200th Pick in 1958 Draft
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Feb 13, 2024, 6:58 AM
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What a cool picture. I love to read about history.
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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GO TIGERS!
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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Feb 13, 2024, 12:03 AM
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Thanks, O.J.
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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Two-hundy
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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Gooo Tigers!!!***
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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Feb 13, 2024, 4:04 AM
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South Carolina Highway 200 is a 42.8 mile rural two-lane state highway that runs from US 321 and SC 34 in Winnsboro, northeast through Great Falls and Lancaster, ending at the NC state line where it becomes NC 200.
About 6 miles up from Caesars Head is Dupont State Recreational Forest in North Carolina. It was named for the company that sold some of the area to the state in the 90s and some to another company, Sterling, along with the manufacturing plant they had there. Sterling later sold most of their land to a developer, but after conservation groups and politicians got involved and money changed hands, that area was added to the forest. I've been there once, hiking the loop trail around High Falls, Triple Falls, and Hooker Falls. Bridal Veil Falls below this section was used for a scene in "The Last of the Mohicans" released in 1992. It's a good movie if you haven't seen it.
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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Feb 13, 2024, 6:37 AM
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Been on that highway only once- had to test a child in his home near Great Fallsback before GPS - almost never found that house!
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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Dupont State Recreational Forest... Never been there or even heard of it. We'll have to check that one out soon. Thanks
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Definitely worth a visit***
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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All the way with O.J.
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Slowly but Shirley!!! We're getting there!!
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Go Tigers!!
Happy Tuesday TNET and GaTiger5!!
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Good morning MfO!
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Happy Tuesday!
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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Another day closer!
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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O. J. for President 2024! Go Tigers!!
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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Been waiting for 200...
The ox is slow, but the earth is patient.
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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The days are long but the weeks are short!
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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Thanks, O.J.!
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Re: Hill Watch...200 days!!!
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Bring it! Go Tigers!
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