When he was a little boy and came to Clemson football games with his family, Sam Blackman always pestered his father about seeing the football team before they came running down the hill on the east side of Clemson Memorial Stadium.
Blackman loved the Tigers and he wanted to see and absorb every moment of his experiences to Death Valley.
“When is the team coming? When is the team coming,” Blackman would ask his father, who graduated from Clemson in 1933.
This of course was in the late 1960s. In those days the Tigers dressed at old Fike Field House and walked down Williamson Road to go down the hill on the east side of the stadium to access the field.