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On Sept. Those 20, seats installed for the opener would soon grow. When the original part of the stadium was built in the early s, much of the work was done by scholarship athletes, including football players. The first staking out of the stadium was done by two members of the football team, A.

Cameron and Hugh Webb. Webb returned to Clemson years later to be an architecture professor and Cameron went on to become a civil engineer in Louisiana. The construction of Memorial Stadium did not proceed without problems.

One afternoon during the clearing of the land, a young player proudly announced that he was not allergic to poison oak. He then proceeded to attack the poison oak with a swing blade, throwing the plants to and fro. The next day, the boy was swollen twice his size and was hospitalized. There are many other stories about the stadium, including one that Frank Howard put a chew of tobacco in each corner as the concrete was poured.

I also told them we would have 50 gallons of ice cream when we got through. This is a school that had a live Tiger mascot in This is a school that played night football in They don't need to lift ideas from Clemson. Clemson and LSU have only played three times. But Clemson won the last time they played — the Chick-fil-A Bowl in Atlanta — on a last-second field goal. Grace is the Post and Courier's Clemson reporter.

She graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in journalism. Edit Close. Toggle navigation Menu. Special Report. Federal corruption prosecutions are way down across the nation and in SC. Close 1 of 2. Buy Now. Grace Raynor. Should the two teams finalize a deal, there is no doubt the Death Valley conversation will come up again.

Prior to that, Tiger Stadium had been referred to as Deaf Valley because of how loud it got inside of the college football stadium. One of the most unique features of Tiger Stadium was that student dormitories were built into the stadium back in Students lived in these dormitories until the s and the university used them for storage into the s.

In addition to being louder than being inside of a drum, Tiger Stadium is notoriously one of the hardest stadiums to play in, especially at night. The LSU fanbase knows how to have a good time, so all the pre-game festivities certainly enhance the experience of a Baton Rouge Saturday Night.

So far this century, LSU has won three national titles with one of the best home-field advantages. LSU Tigers. Next: College coaches who would be the life of the tailgate party.