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Carolina delegates of the SIAA (settling disputes over issues like rules and eligibility, eg. like if a baseball player played pro or minor league baseball for a summer) until he became an acting president in 1912-15 after William Dudley stepped down. Clemson also stayed members of the SIAA league until 1921 when they helped charter the early Southern Conference. Hence, whomever removed Clemson College (who has always been affiliated in some way with a league since it started fielding teams) from the SIAA and Southern Conference standings for those years (mostly in the early 20th Century), needs to restore them as it probably already was. Best.
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Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association" (rule book) printed by Spalding Press, New York. There are three listed here on this page:
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Wendell Bailey (1924) of former Mississippi A&M College has Clemson College, among other schools, listed as members as of 1895. Clemson didn't officially field their first athletic team until the following spring in 1896, which was baseball. It followed with football in September of
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That's what's between the ref tags. A media guide not knowing the conference 120 years ago when they don't have the championship banner is superior to a contemporary yearbook of a conference member listing members of the conference before it talks about its football team because....?
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