Gilbert HS: South Carolina History Research

Features a portion of the game played at the Carolina Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina on October 24, 1946 between the University of South Carolina Gamecocks and the Clemson Tigers. Coach Rex Enright guided the Gamecocks to a 5-3 record in 1946, but the most memorable contest came against Clemson. South Carolina won the game for the school's first win over Clemson in the Modern Era, 26 to 14.

Various scenes of a football game played on November 20, 1965 between the University of South Carolina and Clemson University at Carolina Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina. UofSC wins 17 to 16.

South Carolina 21, Clemson 21 (home). Full game, radio commentary by Gamecocks Sports Network. GAME RECAP: Late in the fourth quarter, Clemson’s David Treadwell kicked a 31-yard field goal to tie the favored Gamecocks 21-21 in a back and forth battle for bragging rights in the Palmetto State. Prior to Treadwell’s successful attempt, Scott Hagler missed a 41-yarder for the Gamecocks. Clemson took an early 8-0 lead before running back Harold Green got the Gamecocks on the scoreboard with a short plunge. Then Carolina defensive back Brad Edwards picked off a Rodney Williams pass and returned it 61 yards for the go-ahead touchdown. After Williams’ 35-yard completion to Terrance Roulhac, the Tigers regained the lead, before Todd Ellis hit Sterling Sharpe with a spectacular 72-yard pass and run to give the Gamecocks a short-lived lead. Treadwell cut the lead to three with a 37-yarder late in the first half. The only scoring in the second half came on Treadwell’s late field goal. Statistically, the game was also even, with Carolina passing for 275 yards and Clemson running for 237 yards. HEAD COACHES: SC-Joe Morrison CU-Danny Ford

Official souvenir program of the USC Gamecocks vs. the Clemson Tigers football game held November 24, 1962 at Clemson Memorial Stadium in Clemson, SC.

The University of South Carolina Football Program Covers showcases the unique artwork created to support and promote Gamecock football. The collection contains program covers ranging from 1923 to present. Football first came to Carolina in 1892 when a team played against Furman on Christmas Eve in Charleston, however, the football team was not sanctioned by the University and had to support themselves financially. In 1906, the Board of Trustees banned the football team from competition, because of the rude chants that filled the air games. By 1907, the Board was so harrassed by fans, alumni, and students to reinstate the sport that they relented, and Carolina fans have enjoyed a strong football program ever since.

South Carolina filmmakers Jeff Sumerel and Chris White have brought together past players, coaches, fans and scholars from very diverse backgrounds to tell the story of the "Carolina-Clemson Game". Lyrical in story line, with a wealth of original and archival imagery Bragging Rites tells the history of The Rivalry through the actual and dramatized words of many of those people who have been an essential part of the story.

Former Clemson coach Charley Pell once said that the outcome of the Carolina-Clemson rivalry decides who walks down the street as state champion and who hides in a closet for a year." That's the way it goes in the Palmetto State when these two football teams get together. Playing for the first time in 1896 on a soggy day at the state fair in Columbia, the Gamecocks and the Tigers began a tradition that has lasted over a century. Join award-winning sportswriters Travis Haney and Larry Williams as they recount the greatest moments of the longest uninterrupted series in the South, with firsthand accounts from coaches, players and spectators."

It was Thursday, November 12, 1896, during State Fair week, when spectators were introduced to the latest in entertainment -- a college football match. This historic match would feature Tigers from Clemson Agricultural College versus the Jaguars from South Carolina College. The game was played on the infield of the horse race track. Admission was twenty-five cents. Some 2,000 fans packed the grandstand, waving banners, beating drums, and sporting their school colors. The State newspaper later reported, "the din from the students' yells and horns sounded as if the inmates from an insane asylum had broken loose." All in all it was a grand beginning for what would become an integral part of the history of South Carolina, as well as one of the finest rivalries in the nation, one that continues to this day.

Football rivalry as a culture war: "These gridion clases were emblematic of the rift between social groups, with the S[outh] C[arolina] C[ollege]'s aristocratic, classical, liberal tradition in one corner and Clemson's populist, agrarian, land-grant orientation in the other. Several events that transpired in 1901 and the months immidiately preceding ..." [the "Big Thursday" football game on 30 Oct.] 1902 certainly contributed ot the animosity that culminated in the riot ... "; the riot concerned authorities, who cancelled all games between Clemson and Carolina; regular matches returned in 1909.