'My big idea is to get the stands full and I don't care if I have to pay for the tickets,' said Lois Mitchell

Lois Mitchell recalls the rambunctious passion overflowing from the massive U.S. university football crowd.

“There was 84,000 people there,” said the former Alberta lieutenant-governor, recalling attending a Clemson Tigers game in South Carolina.

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In her office space in downtown Calgary’s Bow Valley Square is a keepsake from that university gridiron experience — an orange Clemson scarf with its trademark paw print.

For her, it’s a reminder of how she’d like to bottle some of that enthusiasm and transfer it to varsity football at home.

“There should be a bit of that drifting over to Canada,” said Mitchell, president of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

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