I guess I should know, but Clemson's stadium is called Death Valley, their mascot is the tigers, and they play a really sh**** version of Hold that tiger. With all that, Was LSU or Clemson the originators of all those names and traditons?
The destinction belongs to Clemson Clemson's Memorial Stadium's popular nickname of "Death Valley" originated when Presbyterian Coach Lonnie McMillan observed that taking his team to Clemson was like going into Death Valley. Coach Frank Howard began using the name regularly in the mid-1950s, and it stuck Some reporter heard someone at an L.S.U. game call our stadium "Deaf Valley" and mis-understood it. It's stuck ever since then. You can read the entire story in "The Fighting Tigers, 1893-1993. One Hundred Years Of LSU Football" written by Peter Finney
Too bad we have a huge Tiger that will literally rip your face off and they have a space pebble from the desert. LSU > Clemson
there's conflicting reports to what you just said, there's another book that says just the opposite, apoligize I don't have a link but I bet somebody on here will vouch for me.
Clemson came first. LSU's was originally Deaf Valley, but reporters got it wrong and called it Death Valley. The name stuck.
Clemson was first. I did some extensive research on this a few years back & everything I found states that Clemson did it first, but only LSU does it right!
