The Streak: The First Time, Out Of The Last 55 Times, That Clemson Lost A Basketball Game In Chapel Hill...

Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod

Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod was still alive.

Čapek-Chod was a famous Czech naturalistic writer and a journalist.

He graduated from college in 1879.

He was born in 1860 during the American Civil War and never cultivated a taste for basketball of any flavor.

That said, he was alive the first time Clemson lost to UNC in Chapel Hill.

Čapek-Chod died in December of 1927.