re: Who was first? Clemson/LSU?

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So to recap: Death Valley - Clemson (I call our stadium Tiger Stadium and have never called it Death Valley anyway)

Tiger Rag - MOST CERTAINLY belongs to LSU.

I can't believe more of you don't know this shite.

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When I was a student, the Daily Reveille a "newspaper" as we used to call it, published all kinds of tidbits like this. Remembering is hard.

Common points:

Tigers (most common mascot in sports), but ours has a historical basis

The Tiger Rag - Clemson possibly stole it. However, it could have been that they were looking for band music with the word "Tiger" in the name. However, clearly a Louisiana connection, and LSU definitely didn't steal it. (Possibly related - I do know that LSU wanted to secure the music from the Lucille Ball song, "Hey, look me over" - from the Broadway musical "Wildcat", bought the rights to the song. Maybe it was for cost, but I believe it was in order to ensure that we had an original, uncopyable song. You all know it best as the music from "Hey, Fighting Tigers")

"Death Valley" - which I generally refuse to refer to Tiger Stadium as "Death Valley" as well. However, when the banner was up it was hard to ignore that we were stealing from Clemson. However, it may have been innocent enough. The playing surface does look like a "valley".

Those are the three that I can think of off the top of my head. However, based on these three, to toss about theft allegations about either school is spurious at best.