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American football player and coach, college administrator, professor of electrical engineering

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Walter Merritt Riggs (January 24, 1873 – January 22, 1924) was the president of Clemson University from 1910 to 1924 and the "father of Clemson football" coaching the first football team for what was then Clemson College.
Riggs graduated from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama (now Auburn University) with a Bachelor of Science in engineering in 1892 and was a member of Auburn's first football team.
He was also president of his class, director of the glee club, and a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity while at Auburn.
Riggs was the second president of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, taking over for William Lofland Dudley in 1912. Riggs Hall, which is the home of Clemson's College of Engineering and Science, is named in his honor.

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