The Great Story of Clemson Tigers Football 2025: Starts at the first football game and goes to the Dabo Swinney era Paperback – June 12, 2025

This book is written for those of us who love Clemson University and especially the CU Fighting Tigers Football Team. You’ll like the whole story of Clemson football from start to finish (not yet, please). We go from the University’s founding in 1889, almost 140 years ago, to the beginning of the football program, through the great coaches to CU as an annual National Champion contender. Clemson sure is the real deal.You will learn that the Clemson Tigers are fierce and passionate competitors. From the stadium to the classroom to the research lab, the Clemson Tigers always play to win.You may already know that CUs first official football game was in 1896 even before American football had been completely defined. You will learn why the immortal Walter Riggs is known as the father of Clemson Football and it is not just because he hired the famed John Heisman as the fourth Tiger coach shortly after the official beginning of football on campus.From here, the book moves you one coach at time through the John Heisman years and on to Frank Howard, the longest tenured Clemson Coach. Then, on the way to today, we stop for coaches Jess Neely and Danny Ford who brought in CUs first National Championship in 1981 and of course we take you to Coach Tommy Bowden and on to the great Dabo Swinney and the 2016 & 2018 National Champion Clemson Tigers. Go Tigers!The history of Clemson Tiger Football’s 768 wins and a few losses (468) as told here is just fascinating. This book captures the many great stories adding up to the Big Story and the contributions of each of the 25 coaches and standout players such as Tajh Boyd, Refrigerator Perry, C.J Spiller, and of course DeShaun Watson. We look at every game in every season and we take the reader through great chapters about all of the Clemson teams with great stories and accounts of 125 seasons worth of great games as of fall 2021 (1275 total games).This book is your finest source for a great read on your favorite college football team. It is the closest thing to an all-encompassing, full-blown encyclopedia of Clemson Football—a blow by blow history from the beginning—with the whole great story unfolding season by season. We capture all the action and all the smaller stories of great Tigers football. This book is for your reading pleasure but also it is a great reference for when you want to see how a particular Clemson game in any year happened to turn out.If you are a Clemson Tigers fan. you will not want to put this book down. Read more