While they got the lights installed in the overly cramped, but brand-new Electrical Engineering department, Tech was busy back on the gridiron, still getting clobbered by all comers. Still essentially coach-less and entirely aimless, the program was moribund but a necessary extracurricular outlet for students in the rigid regime of Captain Lyman Hall. Whether or not it was successful was another matter entirely.
The first time I visited the campus of Clemson University, October, 22nd, 2016, in fact, was a gorgeously sunny morning. In search of the pool, we not-yet-national-champions pulled timidly onto Williamson Road headed towards Memorial Stadium.