Team: Clemson Tigers
Stadium: Clemson Memorial Stadium
Conference: ACC
Sport: College Football
Background: Clemson University, located
in Clemson, South Carolina, was founded in 1889, a legacy
of Thomas Green Clemson, who willed his Fort Hill plantation
home, its surrounding farmlands and forest, and other
property to the state of South Carolina to establish
a technical and scientific institution for South Carolina.
Clemson opened its doors to 446 students as a military
college in 1893. Today, approximately 17,000 students
attend the institution, with 64 percent of these students
from South Carolina and the remaining 36 percent hailing
from 49 other states and 70 nations.
Today, Clemson is classified by the Carnegie Foundation
as a Doctoral/Research University-Extensive, a category
comprising less than 4 percent of all universities in
America. More than 16,000 students and five colleges:
Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences; Architecture,
Arts and Humanities; Business and Behavioral Science;
Engineering and Science; and Health, Education and Human
Development. The University's most noted academic programs
include those in agriculture, architecture, business,
education, engineering, nursing, and textile studies.
The university's newest academic endeavor will involve
automotive engineering, which is part of a new initiative
to build the Clemson International Automobile Research
Center in nearby Greenville.
The school's sports teams are called the Tigers. They
participate in the NCAA's Division I-A and in the Atlantic
Coast Conference. Clemson's primary rival however is
the in-state South Carolina Gamecocks. The two institutions
usually play against each other on the last week of
the football season.