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Another streak must end
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Another streak must end


Aug 31, 2016, 2:15 PM

It’s been a long time since the Tigers have won in Auburn, Alabama. 24,024 days. 65 years, 9 months, 9 days have passed since November 25, 1950 when the then 11th ranked Pickens County Tigers gave Auburn a 41-0 drubbing, a beat down matched only by Vanderbilt earlier in the season. Perhaps that victory was not one worth gloating about as Auburn went 0-11 that year. It scored just 31 points the entire season. Yes, you read that correctly. Auburn scored in only three of 10 games on its schedule. The point total was good enough for dead last (120 out of 120) in major college football. The defense was only slightly better, giving up 25.5 points per game, good enough for 112th out of 120. The season marked the end of the tenure of Head Coach Earl Brown, who amassed a sterling record of 3 wins, 22 losses, and 4 ties in three years at Auburn. Oddly enough, one of those 3 wins was against heavily favored Alabama in 1949. In the two games prior to playing Bama, Auburn managed to tie both Georgia and Clemson by the identical score of 20-20. Brown had spent the previous 7 years coaching both football and basketball at Harvard, Dartmouth, Merchant Marine Academy, and Canisius. He would later coach on the staff of the Detroit Lions.

Auburn would follow the Earl Brown debacle with the hiring of Ralph Jordan, who would spend the next 25 years as head coach, and for whom they would name their stadium.
Clemson and Auburn played in Coach Frank Howard’s hometown of Mobile in 1948 and in 1949, the same game that ended in a tie. That 1948 season saw our Tigers go 11-0 and ended with final AP ranking of 11th.

Saturday’s game will mark the 50th time Clemson has played Auburn, a series Auburn leads 34-13-2. We can’t make up that entire difference on Saturday, but we can put yet another streak to an end. And to paraphrase Dabo from the 2011 postgame interview, “ I can’t think of better place to end the streak than Jordan Hare Stadium, baby!”

Spot the ball.

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Tblam used to coach at Allbarn?***


Aug 31, 2016, 3:34 PM



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It's been 30,224 days since the Dirtpeckers beat Allbarn


Aug 31, 2016, 4:36 PM

and that 2 pt win (16-14) is their ONLY win in the history of the series.

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