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Oculus Spirit [90770]
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I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 17, 2011, 6:58 PM
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like to hear some of what he said to me personally back in 1965 while interviewing him...that he promised me I could sleep on a cot just as the rest of the football team did in those days in old Jervey basketball center night before big Maryland game, but what happened at last minute.
And, what he told me in 1988 (know that he still had an office to work from even though retired over 10 years) while raking up a pile of dried grass left on the curb, with a pitch fork he had taken from the trunk of his car that was parked beside the present Athletic Center's parking lot (since he wasn't pleased with the lawn service!)..and about how he personally got the state of S.C. to build a 4-lane road from Greenville To Clemson...for him! I was astonished..about his claim and his picking up dried grass at age 75+ on a humid 84 degree Spring day since this was the famous "Baron of Barlow Bend", Alabama.
Plus, know I was at last Big Thursday football game in Columbia in 1959 which Tigers won big with two great QB's..and I saw him tip his hat afterwards to crowd to say "Good bye", and I'll see you Gamecocks in Clemson next year for the very first time in 60+ years. So, I knew even then that this man was famous and not one to mess with.
This guy was amazing, gruff, rough speaking, tobacco chewing, big & muscular, folksy, delightful to listen to, one-of-a-kind, well-known & respected in the college football world, full of rural stories but smart as a fox with a degree from Bama in English. Hence, Frank was able to get Clemson College some great publicity with his stories & folksy way, especially at bowl games...and even got boys from up North to come visit Tigertown.
Plus, he helped more than anyone to get our nationally renowned athletic scholarship fund organization up & going by getting in his old car in the hot, humid summers and driving all over rural South Carolina before the depression to "beg" farmers & citizens to give at least $1 down payment towards the $10 a year donation to Clemson College (Hence: I Pay Ten Dollars A Year or IPTAY).
Oh, are you a member of IPTAY? It helps all Tiger teams to compete and win, something we all talk about with our mouths, but which some of us don't support with our wallet. Many thanks if you have given & supported.
And, Frank helped select the football field we have now..planted the grass seed & mowed it on a tractor...plus coached several other teams..track included.
And, he was one of the famous under-sized "RED ELEPHANT" linemen on the Bama team that played in the Rose Bowl. YES, the Rose Bowl!..something really special.
This man "IS" Clemson to many fans, maybe more than John Heisman or Coach Jess Neely..and I got to watch him in 1959 from my open dorm window from the original quadrangle buildings during my freshman year..when the practice field was on what is the soccer field now...him in shorts with massive muscular calves and that old gray Clemson athletic shirt & ball cap.. him treating his players the same as a circus boss who bellowed out orders...and they obeyed.
Remember, this is 1959..the year after being ranked #10 after regular season, and just barely losing 7-0 to the undefeated 1958 National Champion LSU Tigers with Coach Paul Dietzel (later, a loser at South Carolina). They had the famous Chinese Bandit platoon team that supposedly invented gang tackling, painted their eye area with black paint and wore a special band on their upper arm area. They were feared like no other team that year, but our Clemson "boys" fought them to a standstill, fumbling near the goal line..and allowing LSU to win when faked out by a half-back pass by tailback Billy Cannon into the end zone.
This was the famous Sugar Bowl game where "our" Tigers wore the new Sugar Blue outfits...with Navy Blue jerseys, which were wore occasionally years later in big games.
So, let me know with a post of "YES" if you're interested in hearing about Coach Howard...and I'll get my memory going (at age 70) and get out the old The TIGER sports articles I wrote from 1965...and entertain some of you young Tiger fans.
Cordially, "Lightbulb" Bill
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 17, 2011, 7:02 PM
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YES!!!!!!
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 17, 2011, 7:07 PM
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YES!!!!!!!! I love Frank Howard stories.
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Orange Blooded [2402]
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!***
Aug 17, 2011, 8:16 PM
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Yes***
Aug 17, 2011, 7:16 PM
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110%er [5221]
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That would be
Aug 17, 2011, 7:20 PM
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Outstanding ... I would pay to read them if you ever decide to compile them in a book.
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Yes, please.***
Aug 17, 2011, 7:35 PM
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 17, 2011, 7:43 PM
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Yes please
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Orange Blooded [3592]
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Bring it..would love to hear it***
Aug 17, 2011, 7:50 PM
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 17, 2011, 7:51 PM
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yes!
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 17, 2011, 8:00 PM
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yes please tell us more..
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 17, 2011, 8:03 PM
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Fire away! We're sitting by the computers!
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 17, 2011, 8:19 PM
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I hardly think that the same blue jersies were used because as of 62 most were missing and then after that game even fewer were left. Good article and several people hald rooms in Fike.There are way too many rumors concerning him. Sounds as if you had some good memories.
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 17, 2011, 8:22 PM
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YESSIR !!!!!!!!
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YES***
Aug 17, 2011, 8:27 PM
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 17, 2011, 8:31 PM
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yes
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Yeah
Aug 17, 2011, 8:36 PM
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hittin' the bourbon tonite bill?
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Oculus Spirit [90770]
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Close "CUinDV".....not bourbon, rum & coke (2). Go TIGERS!
Aug 17, 2011, 9:56 PM
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n/m
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 17, 2011, 9:31 PM
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YES!!!
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Lot o points [163010]
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Yes
Aug 17, 2011, 9:39 PM
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Thanks!
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Yes, point number 22...my favorite number
Aug 17, 2011, 10:00 PM
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nm
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Orange Blooded [3311]
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 17, 2011, 10:01 PM
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Yes - That would be great!
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 17, 2011, 10:29 PM
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Or you can go to Sloan Street and hear it from Jimmy!
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Oculus Spirit [90770]
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You are a "know-it-all". Funny, let Jimmy tell about Dad.
Aug 17, 2011, 10:34 PM
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Go TIGERS!
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Re: You are a "know-it-all". Funny, let Jimmy tell about Dad.
Aug 18, 2011, 5:08 PM
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I knew Frank and he was one of a kind. We don't have colorful guys like him around anymore.
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Re: YES, this Bashful Baron would love to hear some stories
Aug 17, 2011, 10:47 PM
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about the original Bashful Baron of Barlow Bend.
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Yes -- my dad was a Clemson athlete in the late
Aug 18, 2011, 12:15 AM
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30's and knew Frank. During my childhood in the 50's I began hearing stories about him (most of which I don't remember now.) 
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Yes please!***
Aug 18, 2011, 1:27 AM
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 18, 2011, 4:10 AM
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Would be the best reading on T-Net for a long while.
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 18, 2011, 7:24 AM
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PLEASE YES!!
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 18, 2011, 7:41 AM
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Soitenly!
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He!! ya. And write a book, I'll buy it.***
Aug 18, 2011, 9:23 AM
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I'd love to hear those stories, LightBulb!***
Aug 18, 2011, 11:49 AM
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Yes!!!!***
Aug 18, 2011, 12:32 PM
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Yes yes yes!
Aug 18, 2011, 1:53 PM
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Yes!
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Yes, I need more lightbulbbill***
Aug 18, 2011, 2:23 PM
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Heck yea! We never missed his TV show after church.
Aug 18, 2011, 3:11 PM
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That was almost the only time the Tigers were on back then.
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Re: Heck yea! We never missed his TV show after church.
Aug 18, 2011, 3:13 PM
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The Frank Howard Show with Verner Tate.
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YESSSS!
Aug 18, 2011, 3:16 PM
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Yess! I love it, tell us lightbulb!
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Another yes here.***
Aug 18, 2011, 3:36 PM
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YES SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER!!!!***
Aug 18, 2011, 4:34 PM
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Yes, thank you!***
Aug 18, 2011, 4:57 PM
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What Coach Howard told me...
Aug 18, 2011, 6:05 PM
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As all who met Coach Howard know, he was quick witted and could make you laugh until you cried.
In the summer of 1981, right before the best football season ever, my roommate and I were at the downtown post office admiring two coeds in short shorts. As we were getting an eye full a hand touched our shoulders and voice from behind us said " boyz let me tell you one thing, you better get it while you're young, you better get it while you're young". It makes me laugh every time I think about it. Coach Howard was the greatest.
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Oculus Spirit [90770]
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That was so funny a story about Coach Howard "Clemtiger81".
Aug 18, 2011, 10:55 PM
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Thanks too for your memories of him...the Football Man.
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Re: That was so funny a story about Coach Howard "Clemtiger81".
Aug 18, 2011, 11:18 PM
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Thank You!
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Anything you've got.. Peahead Walker, Jim Tatum, Warren
Aug 18, 2011, 8:04 PM
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Geise, love to hear it! Thanks.
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yes sir... and I say that humbly, with hat in hand,,,
Aug 18, 2011, 8:30 PM
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Also, to the poster with the story about Frank and admiring shapely coeds at the post office... I had a similar experience.
It must have 1977 or so, I forget. I was walking from my dorm (Norris Hall) towards Tillman from the back side, at the top of that paved circle. I was spellbound over a baby doll in extremely short pants and almost bumped into Frank. Before I even realized who it was and apologized he said...
"That'd make a puppy pull a freight train, wouldn't it son"
I've told that story a million times. Still makes me smile.
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Oculus Spirit [90770]
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Loved Frank's remark to you "Dark side of the moo" about gal
Aug 18, 2011, 11:00 PM
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So funny!
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CU Medallion [53716]
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Yes.***
Aug 18, 2011, 8:38 PM
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Yes, please.. Don't forget the FranK Howard Show at
Aug 18, 2011, 9:25 PM
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Noon on WSPA-TV sponsored by Taylor Colquitt Treated Lumber and Mr. Verner Tate
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CU Guru [1899]
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Re: I interviewed Coach Frank Howard as Sports Writer. Would YOU
Aug 18, 2011, 11:41 PM
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YES!!!
Thank you for your willingness to share!
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