Classic Clashes of the Carolina-Clemson Football Rivalry: A State of Disunion

Travis Haney, Larry Williams

Arcadia Publishing, Nov 16, 2011 - Sports & Recreation - 224 pages

Former Clemson coach Charley Pell once said that the outcome of the Carolina-Clemson rivalry "decides who walks down the street as state champion and who hides in a closet for a year." That's the way it goes in the Palmetto State when these two football teams get together. Playing for the first time in 1896 on a soggy day at the state fair in Columbia, the Gamecocks and the Tigers began a tradition that has lasted over a century. Join award-winning sportswriters Travis Haney and Larry Williams as they recount the greatest moments of the longest uninterrupted series in the South, with firsthand accounts from coaches, players and spectators.

About the author

Travis Haney has covered University of South Carolina sports for The (Charleston, South Carolina) Post and Courier since April 2007. Prior to that, he traveled with the Atlanta Braves, covering more than four hundred Major League games for Morris News Service in two-plus seasons. Haney, twenty-nine, has won numerous writing awards and had a 2004 feature story published in the Best American Sports Writing series. The 2003 graduate of the University of Tennessee lives in Columbia, South Carolina, and considers the 2010 College World Series the greatest event he has ever covered, thanks in large part to the Gamecocks' dramatic run to the national title.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Classic Clashes of the Carolina-Clemson Football Rivalry: A State of Disunion
• Authors: Travis Haney, Larry Williams
• Contributors: Tommy Suggs, Charlie Whitehurst
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing, 2011
• ISBN: 1614233152, 9781614233152
• Length: 224 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); Sports & Recreation / Football