Clemson University - Taps Yearbook (Clemson, SC)

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■ |i )l I III s Co-Captain l lun! Team, ll American . . . Firsl Team, All ( !. .1 P.. I.P., am) Spm-ls Writers ' As: tion . . . Invited: Blue-Gray Game, North-South, Senior Bowl, East-West. Hula Bowl in Honolulu. ( II Mil. II-: BUSSEY i iptain . . . Honorable Mention, All American . . . Inst Team, All A.C.C., A. P. . . . Firsl Team, All A. C. C. Academic Team. 214 Bll.l.Y HUDSON Honorable Mention. All American . . . Honor- able Mention. All A.C.C. . . . First Team, All State . . . Invited to play Senior Bowl.

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Clemson Tops A. C. C. A team could be overloaded with the best potentials and material in the conference, but without the strategy and organization supplied by the coaches, the team would be lucky to win a game. This year, as always, the Clemson coaching staff was composed of the best in the business. And this year the coaches really had something to work with. The results were all that could be expected from the best. One head coach, in the personage of die versatile Frank Howard, plus four equally qualified assistants, plus the best in potentiality and material, equaled one Orange Bowl invited team. Not only do these men work long hours at practice sessions and at game time, but they have the additional tasks of recruiting raw material from high schools and scouting future opponents on the road. Coaching is a hard, busy, and sometimes thankless profession. Among some of the distasteful points of being a coach is the problem of dealing with the Sunday morning quarterback. Winning coaches are blessed by being at least half-way in the good graces of the fans. But losing coaches have each critical play called over for them by these grandstand coaches. To be a coach is to invite public criticism on every move made. One wonders why and how our coaching staff can be bothered by the general public and still turn out the great teams that they do. Love of the game and of the school must be the answer. In addition to putting out top gridiron teams, these coaches are responsible for the outstanding Tiger teams in other sports. These are the men and their specific positions: Carl Wise, backfield coach; Banks McFadden, defensive backfield coach; Bob Jones, end coach; Goat McMillan, freshman football coach; Bob Smith, end coach and base- ball coach; and Rock Norman, track coach. In order to center the valuable talents of McFadden on one spot, Clemson acquired a new basketball coach in the form of Press Maravich. Because of the outstanding job done by these men, Clemson prestige in the world of sports has grown through the years. This year the Tigers stayed in the national spot- light throughout the season, and finally ended up in the Orange Bowl. Coaching has to be on a high level to produce such teams. Clemson ' s fifth appearance in a post season classic added the finishing touches to the successful, colorful 1956 football campaign. Although the Tigers lost to Colorado in the Orange Bowl, the A. C. C. champions could not be denied the fine seasonal record of 7-1-2. The only loss came by way of the powerful Miami eleven. Two ties, with Florida and Maryland, added the only other blemishes to an out- standing season. The Country Gentlemen won their first A. C. C. championship since the origination of the powerful conference. Again the Bengals whipped their arch rivals, the power- ful Geise led Gamecocks, to acquire one of the most important Big Thursday wins in the history of this popular classic. Excitement was added to the season with such last minute comebacks as those against N. C. State and Florida. Sheer power was displayed in the trouncing of P. C, Furman, and V. P. I. Individual players as well as the team as a whole received nationwide praise. Twelve players made post season honor teams. These honors ranged from third team Ail-American to honorable mention All-State. Individual rushing honors again went to third team All-American Joel Wells, as he ripped through opposing teams for 678 yards. Honorable mention All-American Quarterback Charlie Bussey, Jim Coleman, Rudy Hayes, and Charlie Home were the other thorns in the opposition ' s defense. The strong Bengal line was led by honorable mention All-American tackles Billy Hudson and Dick Marazza. All-A. C. C. guard John Grdijan and All-State guard Earl Greene added strength to the Bengal forward wall, along with center Donnie Bunton. The flank positions were well manned by third team All- State ends Willie Smith and Dalton Rivers. These individuals grouped their talents together to build one of the most feared and respected teams in the country. Lost from the 1956 A. C. C. champs are eight starters, plus a few of the powerful Clemson bench. Predictions for the 1957 Tiger team, however, are not dim by any means. Promising talent enters the coming seasonal spotlight in die forms of boys from the ' 56 Freshman team. The experienced ' 56 second team, aided by a number of bohunks, will make Clemson a power to watch in the coming season. Clemson will be tough. X ROCK NORMAN PRESS MARAVICH 213

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First Row: Redding Cline Kissam Hanley McTeer Rogers Turberville Home Gilpin McLendon Second Row: Hope Gwinn Singleton Kaltenbach Uhlig Gobble Spooner Giles Pilot Bronrton Parker Third Row: Spivey Grdijan DeSimone Greene Bunton Hecht Bnssey Thomas Jordan Coleman Monroe Matenkoski Fourth Row: Snider Daigneault Sova Catoe Mills Russell Few Bowick Hayes Ard Lawrence Sease Fifth Row: Wild Rivers Smith Ednie Coker Meador McCanless Thomason Bush Payne Cox Tupper Sixth Row: Griffith Grace Knott Breedlove Gressette Masneri Corlton Austin Padgett Rogers Wells Seventh Roiv: Dukes Fisher Wrenn Marazza Hudson Pace Smith DICK MARAZZA Honorable Mention, All American, N. E. A. . . . Honorable Mention, All American, A. P. . . . Second Team, All A. C. C. JOHN GRDIJAN Honorable Mention, All A. C. C, U. P. . . . First Team, All State, U. P. . . . Second Team, All A. C. C, A. C. S.W. A. 215