Publisher's Synopsis
This book is written for those of us who love Clemson University and especially the CU Fighting Tigers Football Team. You'll like all the stories from the University's founding in 1889, just about 130 years ago, to the beginning of the football program, through the great coaches to CU as an annual National Champion contender. . You will learn that Clemson Tigers are fierce and passionate competitors. From the stadium to the classroom to the research lab, the Clemson Tigers always play to win. You will learn that CUs first official football game was in 1896 even before American football had been completely defined. You'll also learn why the immortal Walter Riggs is known as the father of Clemson Football and it is not just because he hired the famed John Heisman as the fourth Tiger coach shortly after the official beginning of football on campus. From here, the book moves you one coach at time through the John Heisman years and to Frank Howard, the longest tenured Clemson Coach. Then, on the way to today, we stop for coaches Jess Neely and Danny Ford who brought in CUs first National Championship in 1981 and of course we take you to Coach Tommy Bowden and on to the great Dabo Swinney and the reigning 2017 National Champion Clemson Tigers. Go Tigers! The history of Clemson Tiger Football as told here is just fascinating. This book captures the many great moments and the contributions of each of the 25 coaches and standout players such as Tajh Boyd, Refrigerator Perry, C.J Spiller, and of course DeShaun Watson. We look at every game in every season and we take the reader through great chapters about all of the Clemson teams with great stories and accounts of 121 seasons worth of great games (1222 games) with great moments. This book is your finest source for a great read on your favorite college football team. It is the closest thing to an all-encompassing, full-blown encyclopedia of Clemson Football-a blow by blow history-with tales of the great moments. We capture all the action and all the memorable moments of Tigers football. This book is for your reading pleasure but also as a great reference for when you want to see how a particular Clemson game in any year happened to turn out. If you are a Clemson Tigers fan. you will not want to put this book down.
