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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]. CLEMS;feN TIGERS THE GEORGIA TECH GAME SEPT. 28, 1974 hOO P.M. ^ CLEMSON MEMORIAL STADIUM $1.00 Ideally situated to save you time and money. When Eastern meets your distribution needs, you have an experienced group working for you in two ideal locations: Greenville, South Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida. The recent addition of two brand new distribution centers in Imeson Park at Jacksonville gives us total floor space of 1 ,167,000 sq. ft., with more projected. Our matenals handling and warehouse maintenance equipment is the finest. Our personnel hand picked. Our responsiveness to your instructions quick enough to move goods on a same-day basis. And our computer capability allows us to consolidate loads whenever we can save you money by doing so. Write or call Harold Segars now at 803/277-2475. 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Each usher has been informed the seat Concession stands are located location of doctors. Ambulances are located at Gates 2 beneath the stands and can be reached by exit from any and 10. portal. A concession price list is published on the back page. TELEPHONES: Telephones are located at Stadium Offices 1 11 and 1 3. CALLS: Emergency calls are received Ticket at Gates , 5, 9, EMERGENCY over the telephone located in the press box, the number PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM: The public address of which IS listed with the operator as Press Box, system is mtended primarily for the information of Clemson Memorial Stadium. spectators concerning the game. Please do not request the use of the public address system to make social NOTICE: Possession or consumption of alcoholic contacts at the game. beverages are prohibited by Act No. 550 of the General Assembly of South Carolina, 1967, and rules of the RESTROOMS: Ladies' and men's restrooms are located alcoholic beverage Control Commission in this stadium beneath the stands and can be reached by exit from any and the surrounding area. By order of: S. C. Alcoholic portal. Beverage Control Commission. HALL OF FAME HONORS 6 TODAY The second annual induction of the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame takes place today when five more former Tiger athletes and a former coach will be presented blazers and plaques, which will be hung in the Jervey Athletic Center. The Association of Tiger Lettermen are sponsors of the Hall of Fame with the first induction held last year. At that time Frank Howard, Joe Blalock, Banks McFadden, Fred Cone, W. A. Schilletter and Billy O'Dell were inducted. Blalock and Schilletter have died since their induction Scheduled to be honored today are former football stars John Maxwell and Joel Wells, basketball standout Bill Yarborough, baseballer Joe Landrum, Bob Jones, who played both football and basketball for the Tigers, and then was on the coaching staff 44 years; and special inductee Rock Norman, who spent 18 years on the Clemson coaching staff. Maxwell quarterbacked the Tigers in 1902-03 under Coach John Heisman and led Clemson to a 10-2-1 record in what has been termed the "Golden Age of Clemson Football." Bob Jones Joel Wells Rock Norman One southern newspaper selected an All-South unit in 1903, which listed a trio of Clemson standouts, including Maxwell. An article said: "Maxwell is one of the best quarter- backs the South has seen in many a day. Especially is he useful under the new style of play inaugurated by the new rules, for he has shown in every contest that as a ground gainer from quarterback runs he is without a peer. Maxwell is also a heady leader and should be selected to captain and run the team." Heisman rated Maxwell as one of the best quarterbacks he ever coached. Wells, a halfback, lettered in 1954-55-56, serving as alternate captain his senior year. He was All-Atlantic Coast Conference his junior and senior year and led the league in rushing in 1955 with 782 yards. "The Clipper" helped Clemson to a 19-10-2 recrod in three years, including a trip to the 1957 Orange Bowl when the Tigers dripped a squeaker to Colorado. Weils' credentials, which included one This is the 1902 Clemson team which recorded 6 wins and 1 loss. John Maxwell, who is being inducted of the best blockers on the squad as well into the Clemson Hall of Fame today, was quarterback on that team. He is seated at the far right of as a top defensive back, earned him third the second row. Over Maxwell's left shoulder is John Heisman, Clemson coach that year for whom the Heisman Trophy is named. team All-America honors in 1955. Yarborough was Clemson's first Jones played football and basketball He had a 10-2 mark in '46 and modern-day basketball standout, earning during the 1927-30 era, and during this followed with an 11-1 in '47, hurling five letters from 1952 through 1957. He time began his coaching career under Josh Clemson to the Southern Conference was granted an extra semester by the Cody. Coming from his native Starr, he crown and the NCAA Southern title. He ACC under the hardship rule and is the had never played football. But in college signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers follow- only Clemson player ever to earn five he made the All-South team and was ing his sophomore year, but in two years, basketball letters. alternate captain of the Tigers his senior pitched 221 innings, struck out 195 and His performance for the Tigers is still year. He also lettered three years in had an earned run average of 1.67. evidenced in that 1 1 school records are basketball and was captain of the cage Norman, a Roanoke College graduate, still owned by Yarborough. His 28.3 team. spent 18 years at Clemson where he scoring average for the 1954-55 season Neither Furman nor South Carolina, served as cross country and track coach, still stands as the highest in Clemson both big state rivals then as now, defeated varsity basketball coach and assisted with history. a Tiger team while Jones was playing. freshman basketball and football during When Jess Neely arrived in 1931 he the time. His track teams won seven state retained Jones on the staff for nine years titles, had an overall record of 49-24, and and Howard did the same in 1940, and during one stretch, won 17 meets in a the Jones-Howard relationship remained row. intact for 30 years. Jones served as He has received his alma mater's assistant to the athletic director and golf highest award, the Roanoke College coach his last four years at Clemson, Medal, and is a member of the South retiring this past June after 44 years as a Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame. The player, coach and administrator. Atlantic Coast Conference named Landrum was Clemson's first All- Norman the recipient of its prestigious America baseball player, landing a first Service To Sports Award two years ago team berth in 1947. As a freshman for "long, distinguished and unselfish playing with the varsity the season be- service to athletics." fore, he drew the starting nod in the Norman spent 51 years in the coaching season opener with Erskine and respond- profession at Clemson, The Citadel, Fur- ed by a no hit, no-run game, fanning 15, man, South Carolina, Bailey Military walking none and allowing but one ball Academy, Roanoke and Carlisle Military Bill Yarborough out of the infield. School. The Georgia Tech Series Two old rivals clash in Death Valley today, but this is the first national champion Notre Dame and to the Pitt Panthers, led by time in history that Clemson and Georgia Tech have met in Tiger sensational running back Tony Dorsett.