Clemson Football Media Guide
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f • \ 1 j \ ' \ FOREWORD We hope this brochure on Clemson foot ball, simply a condensed booklet with the latest ''poop'' on the Tigers, will prove helpful to you during the 1949 season. We do not expect it to answer all of your questions, merely to whet your' desire to ask them . • Prepared and Published by THE OFFICE OF ATHLETIC PUBLICITY Clemson College Athletic Association Ed Osborne, Director • • THE COVER The cover shows Ray Mathews, the Tigers' youthful back, who will be the main cog in Clemson's single wing offense this fall. He led the Conference scoring last season with 13 touch downs, is now a junior at Clemson, is married, and hails from McKeesport, Pa. Statistically speaking, he averaged 5. 7 yards per try in 113 running attempts last year, caught 14 passes for 379 yards, and added another 169 yards via 5 pass completions out of 19 attempts. THE 1949 SCHEDULE • • • Dat Garn Place Time 7 Pr b r, n a• C m on 8.00 • R O' on T XO 8: 15 I 0 R h C. 8 00 8 s a Cl m on 8.00 a t Co mba 2:00 a mo 8.00 a C m on· 2:00 \,f ,. r y at Cl m on 8.00 2.00 0 A abama 2 00 • THE 1948 RESULTS • • • Cl m on 53 Pre byter1an 0 C m on 6 N C. State 0 Cl m on 21 } ISS. State 7 Cl m on 13 South Carolina 7 Clemson 26 Boston College 19 Clemson 41 Fur:man 0 Clemson 21 Wake Forest 14 Clemson 42 Duquesne 0 Clemson 7 Auburn 6 Clemson 20 The Citadel 0 Clemson 24M1ssouri (Gator B0'111) 23 TOTAL 274 76 • 1949 FRESHMAN SCHEDULE Sept. 17 Fort Jackson at Columbia Nigh t Sept. 23 Presbyterian at Clinton Night Oct. 19 South Carolina at Columbia Night Oct. 29 The Citadel at Charleston Night 1'1ov. 18 Furman at Clemson 2 p.m. THE ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATION .... Athletic activities at Clemscn College are governed by a nine-man board consisting of five members of the faculty appointed by the president; the business manager ar1d registrar as ex officio members; and two alumni mem bers elected by the alumni association. The board considers all matters pertaining to ath letic affairs of the college, including the estab lishment of policy, ticket distribution, award ing of letters, interpretation of eligibility rules, the approval of schedules and the rec ommending and hiring of coaches. The present board is made up ~f Dr. Lee W. Milford, Sr., chairman; Gaston Gage, J. H. Mitchell, T. W. Morgan, S. B. Rhodes, J. C. Littlejohn, business manager; and G. E. Metz, registrar. The alumni members are Dr. Ru pert Fike and Goode Bryan. THE ATHLETIC STAFF Athletic Director __ ______ Frank Howard, Ala., '31 Ticket Manager _________ Walter Cox, Clemson '39 Iptay Secretary __________ Cary Cox, Clemson '49 Publicity Director ______ Ed Osborne, Clemson '44 Athletic Secretary Elizabeth Griffith, Winthrop'43 Publicity Secretary __ _ Betty B. Cox, Anderson '47 THE COACHING STAFF · Head Coach ____________ Frank Howard, Ala., '31 Backfield Coach __ Covington McMillan Clemson '30 Backfield Coach ________ Russ Cohen, Vanderbilt End Coach ______________ Bob Jones, Clemson '30 Line Coach _____________ Walter Cox, Clemson '39 Assistant Coach ____ Banks McFadden, Clemson '40 Assistant Coach ______ A. W. Norman, Roanoke '15 Assistant Coach __________ Cary Cox, Clemson '49 THE HEAD COACH • • • FRANK HOWARD The 1949 football season marks Coach Frank Howard's tenth year as head coach of the Clemson Tigers. He came to Clemson 1n 1931 as the Tiger's line coach under Jess Neely, and it was in 1940, when Neely pulled stakes to settle at Rice Institute in Texas, that Howard took the reins as chief men tor. Born at Barlow Bend, Ala., on March 25, 1909, Ho\vard spent his ea1~1y days on a farm-playing cow pasture baseball at every opportunity. The folks arou11d Ba1,low Bend took ve1·y little interest in football those days, and even if they had gotten the fever, there would not have been enough youngsters around the general sto1·e to get up a game. The fall of 1927 found him bound for Tuscaloosa with most of his v.rorldly goods in a hand grip and a glea1n in his eyes that meant stiff opposition for \¥hoever had a monopoly on Alabama's guard posi tion. Coach Wallace Wade (then at Alabama, now at Duke) sent Howard into his first game against Mississippi State as a sophomore. He played as a re serve that year, and as a junior stepped into a var sity berth, starting all ga1nes but two this second year. An inJ ur~ect ankle barred him from those two. With the arrival of the 1930 campaign, great things were forecast for Alabama football. Tl1e gigantic sizes of the linemen prompted newspaper men to for get the nickname, "The Crimson Tide" in favor of a new inspiration, ''The Red Elephants". At 185 pounds, Howard went quietly to the task of retaining l1is regular position among those mam moth linemen. He was the one hitch in the nick name, "Red Elephants", until an enterprising writ er came up with tl1e "Little Giant'', manufactured exclusively for Hovvard. Throughout the year, Howard was the "Little Giant'' of the "Herd of Red Elephants''. The team swept through an un defeated season and capped it by defeating Wash ington Sate, 24-0 in the January 1, 1931, Rose Bowl game. Howard's top honors as head coach at Clemson came in the 1948 season when, after leading his Tigers through an undefeated year, he was ac claimed top coach of the Southern Conference by the League's sports writers and fourth in an AP poll in the nation. Final rise to success came with the defeat of Missouri in the January 1, 1949, Gator Bowl game in Jacksonville. Here is Howard's career record as a head coach: Year G W L T Pct. 1940 9 6 2 1 . 722 1941 9 7 2 0 . 778 1942 10 3 6 1 .350 1943 8 2 6 0 .250 1944 9 4 5 0 .444 1945 10 6 3 1 .650 1946 9 4 5 0 .444 1947 9 4 5 0 .444 1948 11 11 0 0 1.000 Totals 84 47 34 3 .577 TIIE ASSIST ANT COACHES • • • BOB JONES A standout Clemson football and basketball star of the years 1928-30 and generally considered one of the finest ends in Clemson history, Bob Jones joined the coaching staff as end coach upon gradu tion here in 1930. Entering the Army in 1941, Jones spent 12 months in the ETO, won the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Combat Infantry man's badge. He held the rank of lieutenant col onel when discharged in 1946. Jones is also head coach of the golf t eam. He now commands the 323rd. Inf. Regt. as full colonel with headquarters at Clemson. Married, h e has three daughters. COVINGTON McMILLAN A Clemson gridiron star of the 1928-30 era, "Goat" McMillan spent four years coaching at Grif fin, Ga. High School and three years at Furman University before joining the Clemson staff in 1937. Entering the Army in 1942, McMillan spent six months in Korea and Japan. He held the rank of captain when discharged in 1946. He is the Tig er's exponer1t of statistics. He is married and has two girls and a boy. RUSS COHEN Clemson's newest addition to its varsity coach ing staff is Russ Cohen, former athletic man at Louisiana State University and an assistant to Wal lace Wade, when the present Duke mentor was at Alabama. Cohen came to Clemson in 1947 from Virginia Military Institute where for ten years he had been backfield coach . During off-season, he operates a large farm in Waynesboro, Ga. WALTER COX A regular guard on Clemson's 1939 Cotton Bowl team, Walter Cox stepped out of a first string posi tion with the Tigers into a job on the coaching staff. Called into the A1~my in 1942, Cox spent 12 months in the Fiji Islands, New Caledonia, and Guadalcanal, and held the rank of first lieutenant when medically discharged in 1943. He serves as baseball coach in the spring, besides bearing the trials and tribulations that go with the job of tick et manageI·. H e and the Mrs. have two boys. BANKS McFADDEN His play on the 1939 Tiger team placed ''Bonnie Banks" on the Associated Press All-American foot ball team and on Chuck Taylo1--'s All-American bas ketball t eam. Upon graduation in 1940, McFadden played professional football for the Brooklyn Dod gers and led in ground gaining. He entered the Army in 1942, spent 33 months overseas and was a major at the time of his discharge. In the winter, McFadden is Clemson's basketball coach. Married, he has two girls. A. W. NORMAN Con sidered on e of the great est an d most \1 e1·satile athlet es in the hist ory of R oan oke College. " Rock" Norman cam e to Clem son in 1940 as freshn1ar1 football, varsity bask etball an d track coach. Nor man will assist with Clemson 's fresh man football squad this fall a nd will direct the track cin derr11 en n ext sp rin g. Du1-- ing the summer, he is in cl1arge of t een-a ge y oungst ers at a B oys' Camp in North Carolin a . CARY COX R eplacing Walt e1" Tilley, former Ip tay seer tar)', is Cary Cox , 1947 outstan ding football c nter and captain of th e Tigers.