Hotels Downtown Baton Rouge. Interstate Visitor Guides. Virtual Visitor Center. About Us. My Itinerary. Back To Previous Page. The Tigers have drawn more than 15 million fans since The 11, seat addition in allowed the Tigers to pack even more screaming fans into Tiger Stadium.
Throughout the season, the Tigers continued to expand Tiger Stadium with the west side expansion. Completed by the season, this expansion increased the seating capacity of Tiger Stadium to 92, View all Big 12 Sites. More Pac 12 News ». More FS Pac 12 News ». View all PAC Sites. More FanSided News ». More News Around the Network ». Great crowds. Big noise. The whole thing," says Danny Ford, who has walked through both valleys of the shadow of death, first as an Alabama player and assistant coach and then as Clemson's head coach for more than a decade.
Ford lives in Clemson, so close to his former place of employment he can hear the roar of the 81, in attendance during the home games he chooses to sit out. It's loud. Which brings us back to this storied moniker for these two powerhouse programs: How, and why, did each one land on the name "Death Valley"? He went on to post a professional record, became the sparring partner for heavyweight legend Archie Moore and, in the s, opened a gas station in Baton Rouge literally within shouting distance of Tiger Stadium.
The crowds at LSU home games would shake the walls and rattle the glass of Peele's service station, so he nicknamed the stadium "Deaf Valley. For some, "Death" actually predated "Deaf" in Baton Rouge. On Jan. Because they believed they had earned that right after defeating the team that was already using the name for its home stadium. The first known "Death Valley" reference tossed Memorial Stadium's way came more than 10 years before Peele's nickname.
In , Lonnie McMillan, head coach of the rival Presbyterian College Blue Hose, had just endured a rout at the hands of the orange-and-white Tigers. At the time, tradition held that PC and Clemson always played the season opener.
And those games, in September in South Carolina, are essentially like playing football inside a pottery kiln, especially on Clemson's home field, which sits in a natural gorge, built atop bedrock and surrounded by reflective white concrete. He compared the unpleasantness of that midsummer desert experience to his September visits to play the Tigers, saying Clemson was "college football's Death Valley. He told it so much, it eventually stuck.
Two decades later, Clemson alum Sam Jones was driving through that same desert and pulled over to pick up a big chunk of rock. When he got back to South Carolina, he presented it to Howard. Howard was so inspired by the gesture
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