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1900 Clemson Tigers football team

1900 Clemson Tigers football
1900 Clemson Tigers football team (Clemsonian 1901).png
SIAA champion
Conference Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1900 record 6–0 (3–0 SIAA)
Head coach John Heisman (1st year)
Captain Norman Walker
Seasons
← 1899
1901 →
1900 SIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Clemson $ 3 0 0     6 0 0
Auburn 3 0 0     4 0 0
Tulane 3 0 0     5 0 1
Sewanee 5 0 1     6 1 1
Texas 1 0 0     6 0 0
Vanderbilt 2 3 1     4 4 1
Alabama 1 3 0     2 3 0
Georgia 1 3 0     2 4 0
Nashville 1 3 0     1 3 0
Tennessee 0 2 1     3 2 1
LSU 0 1 0     2 2 0
Cumberland 0 1 0     0 1 0
Mississippi 0 3 0     0 3 0
Georgia Tech 0 4 0     0 4 0
Kentucky State 0 0 0     4 6 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Clemson at Georgia
1 2 Total
Clemson 11 28 39
Georgia 5 0 5
Clemson at Alabama
1 2 Total
Clemson 23 12 35
Alabama 0 0 0

The 1900 Clemson Tigers football team represented the Clemson Tigers of Clemson Agricultural College in the sport of American football during the 1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Under first year head coach John Heisman, the team posted a 6–0 record and Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) championship.

The Tigers outscored their opponents 222–10; the 64–0 win over Davidson on opening day was then the largest score ever made in the South and the season's only home game. The only close game was with the South Atlantic school VPI.

Walter Riggs led the effort to raise the $415.11 to hire Auburn's football coach John Heisman, the first Clemson coach who had experience coaching at another school. As Riggs recalled, "By 1899 the Clemson football team had risen steadily until its material was equal to that of any southern college, and the time had come to put on the long-planned finishing touch." Heisman once described his style of play at Clemson as "radically different from anything on earth".

The team took the field in jerseys and bearing distinctive orange and purple stripes. Norman Walker was team captain.

Clemson opened the season in Columbia on October 19, winning over Davidson 64–0, then the largest score ever made in the South.

The Tigers beat Wofford 21–0 on October 22. Clemson agreed that every point scored after the first four touchdowns would not count.


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