The 1942 Clemson Tigers football team was an
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
that represented
Clemson College
Clemson University () is a public land-grant research university in Clemson, South Carolina. Founded in 1889, Clemson is the second-largest university in the student population in South Carolina. For the fall 2019 semester, the university enro ...
as a member of the
Southern Conference
The Southern Conference (SoCon) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly ...
during the
1942 college football season. In their third season under head coach
Frank Howard, the Tigers compiled a 3–6–1 record (2–3–1 against conference opponents), finished ninth in the conference, and were outscored by a total of 138 to 100.
Memorial Stadium was inaugurated September 19 with a win against . Clemson's 200th win came on Big Thursday against
South Carolina
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Charlie Wright was the team captain. The team's statistical leaders included tailback Marion Butler with 504 passing yards, 616 rushing yards and 36 points scored (6 touchdowns).
End Chip Clark was selected as a first-team player on the
1942 All-Southern Conference football team.
Clemson was ranked at No. 89 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the
Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.
Schedule
References
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