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Does anyone know what year, we decided...
Jul 17, 2019, 6:31 AM
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Hey, we wanna be good at football ! I’m glad we decided in taking this route. Does anyone recall what our first standout year in football was? Was it in the 1800s or early 1900s? Maybe Joe21 can shed some light on this subject since he was probably around during that time. 
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Re: Undefeated season in 1900, Heisman's first at CU
Jul 17, 2019, 6:35 AM
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Thanks !
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I think all the fans brought their own chairs back then.
Jul 18, 2019, 8:31 AM
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And I am certain season tickets didn't make you leave with a limp.
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Then we beat GT so bad in 1903 (73-0) that they hired him away from us
Jul 18, 2019, 8:53 PM
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"The 1903 team went 4–1–1, and opened the season by beating Georgia 29–0. The next week, Clemson played Georgia's rival Georgia Tech. To inspire Clemson, Georgia offered a bushel of apples for every point it scored after the 29th. Rushing for 615 yards, Clemson beat Georgia Tech 73–0."
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Re: Undefeated season in 1900, Heisman's first at CU
Jul 18, 2019, 7:18 AM
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Wonder if that was a year in which Bama claimed a natty. If their record was otherwise perfect, and they had not been given adequate time to prepare for Heisman and the Tigers, then I could see the argument, especially since Army and Notre Dame didn’t have to play us.
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When we chose the Bengal Tiger as our mascot.
Jul 17, 2019, 9:02 AM
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If we had wanted to be sorry at football we would have chosen to be gamecocks.
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Re: Does anyone know what year, we decided...
Jul 18, 2019, 9:03 PM
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Wonder who this really is.....
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Someone who cares about college baseball, apparently***
Jul 18, 2019, 9:42 PM
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Clemson has been good at the highest level for a long time.
Jul 18, 2019, 9:44 PM
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If you do this link, you can see where we stand in terms of all time wins for major college programs.
http://www.winsipedia.com/ranking/all-time-wins
That list has us 16th all time in wins.
(Not bad, but I get picky about the standing of West Virginia and Virginia Tech ahead of Clemson. If you look at the wins of each of those 3 teams against 'major college teams', Clemson has considerably more of those than WVU or VT. Both those teams stayed in the Southern Conference until well into the 1960s playing schedules that were full of Furman, The Citadel, William and Mary, VMI, Davidson, George Washington and the like. We were playing an ACC schedule enriched with 2-4 SEC teams every year. VT bowl history is barren with nothing above the Liberty and Peach Bowl until the 1980s. WVU played GT once in the Sugar Bowl in the early 50s and the rest of the WVU bowl history is the Liberty Bowl level games until after Clemson had won our first Natty. Of course we'd played in the Cotton, Orange and Sugar a few times by the mid 50s. All wins are not created equal.)
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We'd be higher on that list if we played as many games
Jul 18, 2019, 9:59 PM
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as some of those teams did back in the early days.
In 1900, Clemson played 6 games. Michigan, Notre Dame, Nebraska and Ohio State all played 10. Penn State played 11.
There were quite a few years like that.
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