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It has been accepted for inclusion in Football Programs by an authorized administrator of TigerPrints. For more information, please contact [email protected]. '^-^2. il (J. iMUkUA :rc><ftui^ CLEMrS;£(N PARENT'S DAY VS NORTH CAROLINA CLEMSON MEMORIAL STADIUM CLEMSON, S. C November 4, 1972 ONE DOLLAR 1:30 p.m. Published By ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT CLEMSON UNIVERSITY Edited By BOB BRADLEY Sports Information Director Assisted By JERRY ARP Ass't Sports Information Director Represented For National Advertising By SPENCER MARKETING SERVICES 370 Lexington Avenue New York, N. Y. 1001 7 PHOTO CREDIT Jim Burns, Charles Haralson, Louie Dean, Vince Ducker, Jim Martin, Tom Shockley and Hal Smith of the Clemson University Communications Center. Jim Laughead and Jim Bradley of Laughead Photographers, Dallas, Texas. Clemson TAPS Photography Staff. COVER Herman McGee, assistant trainer at Clemson, has the third longest lon- gevity of anyone in the Clemson Athletic Department. He is now m his 39th year on the staff and has held numerous positions in the department since coming there when he was 15 years old. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS EMERGENCIES: A first aid station is located under Section A on South side of Stadium. Trained nurses are on hand all during the game. Should a doctor be needed,, ask any usher. Each usher has been informed the seat location of doctors. Ambulances are located at Gates 2 and 10. TELEPHONES: Telephones are located at Stadium Ticket Offices at Gates 1, 5,9, 11 and 13. PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM: The public address system is intended primarily for the information of spectators concerning the game. Please do not request the use of the public address system to make social contacts at the game. RESTROOMS: Ladies' and Men's restrooms are located beneath the stands and can be reached by exit from any portal. LOST & FOUND: If any article is lost or found, please report same to Gate 1 Information Booth. CONCESSION STANDS: Concession stands are located beneath the stands and can be reached by exit from any portal. A concession price list is published on the back page. EMERGENCY CALLS: Emergency calls are received over the telephone located in the press box, the number of which is listed with the operator as Press Box, Clemson Memorial Stadium. NOTICE: Possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages are prohibited by Act No. 550 of the General Assembly of South Carolina, 1967, and rules of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission in this stadium and the surrounding area. By order of: S. C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission. Weeping willow branches form a peaceful scene as the camera looks across ^ the Robert Muldrow Cooper Library reflection pool towards the Rhodes Engineering Research Building. a COVER STORY "Where's Herman?" "We had an infra-red light and a hot our destination, we were sitting in the plate which heated water in a big gal- Calhoun Hotel eating and waiting for vanized tub where we kept our hot another plane to arrive." towels," Herman recalled. "About every Those were the days when the old Clemson athletic fans have been known second or third towel you'd take out, DC-4 or DC-6 droned on for hours. Quite for their cohesive spirit for decades— you'd get the full force of 110 volts a far cry from last Saturday when it took spirit many schools would give a winning where that tub was touching that hot about 30 minutes to arrive in Winston- touchdown for. That is the one big reason plate." Salem out of the Greenville-Spartanburg Tiger teams have such great followings be Herman recalls that the entire athletic Jetport. it home or on the road. department quarters were about as big as Herman has seen all of the changes and Many former athletes are among these the present training room at Memorial improvements at Clemson as well as those followers. Not only are they interested in Stadium. Among the things in that train- made in equipment. He remembers taking seeing the latest group of Tigers perform, ing room now are three whirlpools, a 18 sections of bleachers down to the Big but they renew a lot of acquaintances medco-sonlator, diathermy, dyna-wave, Thursday game in Columbia each year for around the athletic department with hydrocollator, weights and a dozen other the Clemson fans to sit on. And the day coaches and staff members. things needed in the treatment of today's in 1941 when the athletic department And not many come back who don't athletic injuries. moved into the spacious quarters of Fike ask: "Where's Herman?" Nowadays every football player has his Field House. And a year later when the For if you have been an athlete at ankles taped before going to the practice first game was played in Memorial Sta- Clemson anytime in the last 38-plus field. "Time was," Herman recalls, "we dium. Things will change even more in years, chances are you had a bruise mas- just taped the ones who really needed it. another year. saged, or an ankle taped, or a muscle If they could walk, we sent 'em on out to The training room then will then be in wrapped by Herman. Or you may just the practice field." the Frank Johnctone Jervey Building and have received a few words of encourage- Back then the practice field and the Memorial Stadium is expected to be ment from Herman and some of the ache playing field were one and the same— carpeted with artificial turf. And another and pain went away. Riggs Field— located behind the 'Y' and new group of freshmen athletes will be Herman didn't come in on the first this was the 'Home of the Tigers' until enrolled. load of bricks, but he wasn't too far Memorial Stadium was occupied in 1942. There are two things Herman refuses behind. There aren't but two people still Herman vividly remembers the mode to do— to name his favorite sport and his on the staff who were here when Herman of transportation in the late 30's and favorite athlete. "I've traveled with all of came to work at the athletic department. early 40's. "It was either by bus or, if we the teams and I like whichever one is in One is Bob Jones, now in his 43rd year, had a long trip up into North Carolina, season," he says. "And if I tried to say and the other was Frank Howard, now in we'd go by train. Say if we were playing who my favorite athlete has been, we'd his 42nd. in Raleigh, we'd leave here Friday after- fill up this whole program." He didn't know it in March of 1934 noon on a sleeper and they would side- But he will tell you the play that when they put him on the payroll, but track us if we got in before daylight. stands out in his mind the most. And that came in the 1951 Orange against Herman McGee had found a home. He "I remember the first flying trip I Bowl wasn't quite 16 years old at the time. went on. People saw us off in Anderson Miami when Clemson's Sterling Smith At that time the athletic department and wished us well," he recalls. "But it tackled Frank Smith of the Hurricanes was operating out of cramped, dinky wasn't too long until we were back on the for a safety giving the Tigers a 15-14 quarters in the basement of the old Tex- ground in Anderson with a dead engine. victory. "I'll never forget that one," he tile Building. While most people thought we were at beams. Herman, who is now assistant trainer, served in that sanne capacity fronn 1934 through 1948. He was trainer until 1957 and then was assistant trainer and equip ment manager for two years. In June of 1965 he was recognized by the National Athletic Trainers Association for "twenty-five or more years of meritorious service in the field of athletic training." Clemson has been to seven post season bowl games and so has Herman. "I'd like to see us go 12 and for the next 20 years," he says. Retirement? Although in his 39th year on the staff, Herman just turned 54 this past September, and he'll celebrate his 30th anniversary with the former Lucia Greene next February 8th, and not work- ing hasn't entered his mind. "I guess I'll have to make it to 65," he says. And it's a good bet he'll make it. But between now and then a person could become a rich man if he had a dollar everytime a former or present athlete asked: "Where's Herman?" Herman McGee, that is.