{"id":24974,"date":"2022-06-22T09:12:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T13:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=24974"},"modified":"2022-06-22T09:12:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T13:12:57","slug":"landmarks-legends-summer-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/landmarks-legends-summer-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmarks &amp; Legends: Howard&#039;s Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id='fullscreen_slider_1'  class='avia-fullscreen-slider main_color   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first   container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link av-control-minimal' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue877' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><div   data-size='no scaling'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids='24975'  data-video_counter='0'  data-autoplay='true'  data-bg_slider='true'  data-slide_height='100'  data-handle='av_fullscreen'  data-interval='5'  data-class=' '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id='fullscreen_slider_1'  data-scroll_down='aviaTBscroll_down'  data-control_layout='av-control-minimal'  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment='scroll'  data-min_height='0px'  data-stretch=''  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-1 av-slider-scroll-down-active av-control-minimal av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-no scaling av_fullscreen   avia-slide-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 66.6666666667%;' ><li style='background-position:center center;' data-img-url='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/06\/Howards-Rock.jpg' class=' av-single-slide slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div id='after_full_slider_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-24974'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_fullscreen  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  av_inherit_color '  style='font-size:33px; color:#000000; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"color: #f26834;font-size: 16px;text-align: center\"><b>LANDMARKS &amp; LEGENDS<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 84px;text-align: center;line-height: 120%;margin-top: -10px\"><b>Howard&#8217;s Rock<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  style='height:25px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_fifth '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_three_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><div   class='hr hr-default   avia-builder-el-6  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_one_full  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  av_inherit_color '  style='font-size:16px; color:#000000; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center\">By\u00a0<strong>Nancy Spitler<\/strong><br \/>\nPhotography provided by\u00a0<strong>Clemson Athletics<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_three_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; 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color:#85817f; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center\">The tradition that kicks off the most exciting 25 seconds in college football<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-16  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_hr  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  av_inherit_color '  style='font-size:19px; color:#000000; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"p1\">Ho<span class=\"s1\">ward\u2019s Rock<\/span> is temporarily off its pedestal at the top of the Hill in Death Valley, thanks to construction. We thought it might be a good opportunity to revisit the origins of the famous rock that gets rubbed as players head down the Hill for home football games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">In the 1940s, Presbyterian College head coach Lonnie McMillan called Clemson\u2019s football stadium \u201cDeath Valley\u201d because that\u2019s what they met when they came to play. PC\u2019s Blue Hose had lost to Clemson 39-0 in 1946, 42-0 in 1947, 53-0 in 1948 and 69-7 in 1949.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">In the early 1960s, Samuel C. Jones Jr. \u201919 brought two rocks back to Clemson from Death Valley, California, and gave them to Coach Frank Howard. The whereabouts of one of those rocks is unknown; the other one served as a doorstop in Howard\u2019s office until 1966, when he tripped over it then promptly ordered IPTAY Executive Secretary Gene Willimon to get it out of his office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Willimon decided to place the rock at the top of the Hill in the east end zone. The first game Clemson played with the rock in place was against Virginia, and they came back from an 18-point deficit to win 40-35. It was a year later that Howard was heard to say to his team that they could rub the rock \u2014 only if they were going to give 110 percent on the field. \u201cIf you\u2019re not,\u201d he said, \u201ckeep your filthy hands off of it.\u201d Clemson won that game over Wake Forest 23-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The original concrete pedestal was removed in 2000 to make way for the construction of the east end zone. John Fernandez \u201969, owner of Stone Mart, carved a new granite pedestal that was installed on August 24, 2000. In June of 2013, the rock was vandalized, and about 15 percent of the rock was chiseled away, resulting in a sophisticated security system that has kept it safe since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">This fall, when football season begins and the Tigers take their first run down the Hill, that rock will be back in place. We\u2019re sure that Dabo Swinney\u2019s language will not be as salty as Coach Howard\u2019s is reputed to be, but the sentiments about the rock remain the same: \u201cIf you\u2019re not gonna give 110 percent, keep your filthy hands off of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  style='height:100px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-18  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We thought it might be a good opportunity to revisit the origins of the famous rock that gets rubbed as players head down the Hill for home football games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[276,681,938,1312,1535,2827,2835],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-24974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landmarks-legends","tag-athletics","tag-clemson-football","tag-death-valley","tag-frank-howard","tag-howards-rock","tag-summer-2022","tag-summer-2022-landmarks-and-legends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/06\/Howards-Rock.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24974"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}