Riggs Field House

Riggs Field House
Location	Clemson, South Carolina
Coordinates	34°40′48″N 82°50′17″W / 34.680°N 82.838°W
Capacity	1,000
Construction
Broke ground	1921
Opened	January 13, 1922
Closed	1929

Riggs Field House was a gymnasium in Clemson, South Carolina. It served as the home court of the Clemson Tigers basketball and boxing teams, and hosted campus social events. It was built in 1922 as a replacement for the YMCA Building on a hill overlooking Riggs Field, then the home of the football and baseball teams, behind Barracks No.1 and Tillman Hall.

The site was cleared in the fall of 1921 by Clemson cadets, and the building constructed over the winter of 1921–22.^[1] The field house contained a full-sized basketball court, unlike the one in the YMCA building, and was used by other athletic teams for practice.^[2] The gym opened on January 13, 1922, with a 24–16 loss to Georgia.^[3]

The basketball team moved into the newly constructed Clemson Field House (now Fike Recreation Center) in 1930. Riggs Field House was demolished to make way for new barracks, today known as the "Frat Quad": Bowen, Bradley, Donaldson, Norris, and Wannamaker Halls.^[4]

References

^ "New Gymnasium Well Under Construction". The Tiger. January 11, 1922. p. 3. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
^ "Clemson to Have Temporary Gym". Spartanburg Herald. December 23, 1921. p. 10. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
^ "Ga. Quintet Handed Severe Tussle". The Tiger. January 18, 1922. p. 1. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
^ Blackman, Sam; Bradley, Bob; Kriese, Chuck; Vandervort, Will (2013). Clemson: Where the Tigers Play. Sports Publishing LLC. pp. 43–44, 56. ISBN 978-1-61321-356-8.

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[1] "New Gymnasium Well Under Construction". The Tiger. January 11, 1922. p. 3. Retrieved October 3, 2023.

[2] "Clemson to Have Temporary Gym". Spartanburg Herald. December 23, 1921. p. 10. Retrieved December 9, 2012.

[3] "Ga. Quintet Handed Severe Tussle". The Tiger. January 18, 1922. p. 1. Retrieved October 3, 2023.

[4] Blackman, Sam; Bradley, Bob; Kriese, Chuck; Vandervort, Will (2013). Clemson: Where the Tigers Play. Sports Publishing LLC. pp. 43–44, 56. ISBN 978-1-61321-356-8.

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