An interesting fact about Tiger Rag...

Most of the universities who have a Tiger as their mascot play Tiger Rag as their celebration song for touchdowns.

Princeton
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Missouri
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Auburn
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In a version that sounds suspiciously similar to The Golden Band's arrangment, Clemson
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And of course, the real Tigers
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Authorship of the song is murky, but there's no disputing it was born in New Orleans, or that it was copyrighted by the Original Dixieland Jass [sic] Band in August of 1917.

Tiger Rag in Wikipedia

The leader of that band, Nick LaRocca, always claimed the song as his own and even has the first two bars of the refrain set into the screen door of his old house, still seen to this day in the Irish Channel at 2216 Constance Street.


LaRocca's son, Jimmy, is alive and well--apparently ol' Nick was still impregnating women at a very ripe old age--is a trumpet player and friend, and--here's the really interesting part--assures me that ol' Nick was a fan of the Tigers of Louisiana State University.

So there you have it...Clemson, Auburn, Missouri, Princeton, and all of the rest of the faux tigers celebrate their touchdowns with a song composed, performed, and OWNED by an LSU Tiger.