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USuCk Dominance
May 22, 2013, 3:06 PM
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In 1900, Clemson won for the fourth consecutive time against USuCk. It was only the 5th time the two teams had met. When the teams next met in 1902, USuCk finally won again, whereupon its fans announced, “Well that ended that embarrassment. It won’t happen again for a long time.” They were correct, as the teams did not play one another from 1903-08. When they did meet again, Clemson won three straight. USuCk stopped the bleeding in 1912, only to see the wound reopened from 1913-19, with only a tie in 1915 saving them from seven straight losses. In 1921, USuCk shocked the world with its first win streak in 19 series games. USuCk fans proclaimed, “Now it’s our turn baby!” USuCk promptly lost the next two. In 1926, USuCk capped a three-game run. Feeling they were officially the dominant program, USuCk fans approached the next season with shouts of “one for the pointer finger!” USuCk promptly lost four straight. Again, they righted the ship from 1931-33, dusting off their foam pointer fingers for the 1934 season. The last pointer finger was burned in 1940 in an attempted exorcism as they lost their seventh straight. (Shortly afterwards, UsuCk head coach Rex Enright was seven-bombed by a Westminster elementary school student during a visit to the state capital.) During this time, World War II began taking its toll on Clemson, which produced more Army officers than any other institution except America’s service academies and Texas A&M. With so many Clemson students fighting abroad, UsuCk managed wins in ‘41 and ‘43. It then pieced together a two-game streak in 1946-47 and an impressive five games without a loss from 1949-54, with a tie in ‘50. Having essentially gotten "one for the thumb,” UsuCk fans shouted their superiority to anyone in orange. Clemson then ran off streaks of three (1955-57) and two (1959-60 and 1962-63). The teams traded two-game streaks in 1964-65 (UsuCk) and 1966-67 (Clemson). UsuCk’s seeming last multi-game hurrah came with a three game streak from 1968-70. After that, Clemson ran off streaks of two (1971-72, 2007-08), three (1976-78), and four (1980-83, 1988-91, 1997-2000, 2002-05). UsuCk would not manage back-to-back wins again until 2009-12, evening the ten-game series at .500, raising their twenty-game average to .400, and their series average to .395. Moral of the story: UsuCk is obviously the most dominant program in South Carolina. Always has been. Always will be.
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