re: Check in if your team has an overall winning record vs Clemson in football

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so why does everythign I read about Clemson's history specifically call it a military college until 1955....

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Because you're reading Clemson's wiki and their website without a wider perspective of colleges at the time, the evolution of education in America, and the state of South Carolina. Clemson claims that title because they had a mandatory ROTC program until 1955 which was not uncommon. Why they choose to label themselves that probably has something to do with how Clemson wants to see itself, ask them.

I will and have granted you that it had a robust program but comparing it to the Citadel is silly and denies Clemson's own history and Ben Tillman's vision. He wanted an Ag school, not a Military College.

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it had more officers in WW2 than the Citadel. the most in the country after Army and texas am. lol

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Those were reserve officers. There was a difference between the commissions at the time, there still is now but it's slight and changed in the 90's. You did not go to Clemson to become an Officer, you went to the Citadel.