When you look at the history of Clemson football, there are two moments that changed the course of the program’s history. The first came in the summer of 1975 – that’s when Steve Fuller chose Clemson over Georgia and Tennessee. After the Spartanburg High School star picked the Tigers, others soon followed. In 1975 there […]
Through the years, Clemson Football has had countless All-Americans and All-Conference players to help it become one of college football’s best programs. With that said, who wore their number the best? Clemson has retired just three numbers it is proud history. Steve Fuller’s No. 4, C.J. Spiller’s No. 28 and Banks McFadden’s No. 66. However, […]
South Carolina was still smarting from the previous year’s loss in Clemson when a two-win Clemson team beat the Gamecocks, 28-9, knocking them out of contention for a possible Peach Bowl bid. When Clemson visited Columbia on November 19, 1977, the roles were reversed. South Carolina was sitting at 5-5 and knew its season was […]
When Steve Fuller came to Clemson in 1975, he came because he saw an uptick in the program. He wanted to be a part of something special. Fuller, who was a star player at Spartanburg (SC) High School, could have gone anywhere to play college football. He ultimately picked Clemson over Georgia and Tennessee. Prior […]
It is a day he will never forget. During his playing career, Steve Fuller experienced a lot of great things. He led Clemson to an ACC Championship and a No. 6 national ranking. He was the first Clemson player to earn back-to-back ACC Player of the Year honors. He was an All-American. He was picked […]
It all started following Clemson’s 7-6 victory over Georgia in Athens. As the Tigers were making the 70-mile hike back to Clemson, head coach Charlie Pell asked the bus driver to pull over. Pell wanted to savor the victory considering it was Clemson’s first win at Georgia since 1914. So, as the legend goes, Pell […]
GREENVILLE — Steve Fuller, one of the greatest players in Clemson’s rich football history, said he never had any doubts when it came to allowing Deshaun Watson to wear his No. 4. Clemson retired Fuller’s No. 4 in 1979, the season following his amazing career at Clemson, in which he won ACC Player of Year […]
GREENVILLE — Former Clemson quarterback Steve Fuller was enshrined into the South Carolina Football Hall of Fame Tuesday at the Hilton of Greenville. Fuller is credited for turning around the Clemson football program in the late 1970s. After the Tigers suffered eight losing seasons in nine years from 1968-’76, Fuller guided Clemson to back-to-back bowl […]
Back in the day, Jerry Butler’s catch to beat South Carolina in the 1977 game is still considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, play in Clemson history. For you young folks out there, Butler made a leaping, twisting catch that no one else could have made that afternoon in Columbia, and no […]
Steve Fuller remembers Dwight Clark differently than most people. To Fuller, Clemson’s All-American quarterback and two-time ACC Player of the Year, he will always remember Clark as No. 30, the jersey he wore at Clemson from 1975-‘78. “I know most of you are saying ‘Dwight Clark was eighty-seven.’ Yes he was,” Fuller said to a […]