re: Deaf Valley...when did it change to Death Valley?

Thanks Tigger1. This is what I remember discussing prior to the National Championship game with Clemson a few years back. The misinformation stemming from the 1940esque ‘deaf valley gas station’ and then Dale’s ‘deaf dome’ is understandable. It’s described and remembered differently in multiple publications.

I’m not the best at it but to no avail, searched the site to find the microfiche ‘death valley’ references from what I remember to be from the 1930s. I bet these are the Grantland Rice references that you mention.

Regardless - we do not have a graveyard with tombstones. https://clemsontigers.com/the-graveyard/

Geaux Guy You are welcome.

I retired from the railroad now and can do research again.

I am a historian, like today I had to tell a number of others on the 55-48 BC.

I may write a book on the subject of Custer's Last Stand which I have studied since 1972.

Back to LSU football I have worked on LSU since Paul Manasseh in 1976 when he gave me the football media guides of 74-75-76 and I stared to collect them, which lead to collecting the basketball and baseball guides also.

My first game at LSU s 1964, and yes it was Death Valley even then, my nephew was on the 2003 team. But while I was growing up Baton Rouge was a large town. My grandmother went to LSU on what would become the capitol grounds, this was around 1923, and the new campus was being built. As I posted my father was at LSU in 1950, but his frist game was around 1935. He even met Eddie Robinson when he was working LSU football games.

I need to get down to Baton Rouge and look up the newspapers, if old man Manship was still living he would have sent then to me, as I knew him since the early 1960's.

Yes, there is no doubt Tiger studium being called Death Vally and I can only prove from 1959.

My worse fear was realized years ago when a LSU football historian wrote a book and called it deaf valley in the 1990's, like I told Jimmy it would not take long for fans to mess the names up between Deaf Dome and Death Vally

I even posted to the old message board when Marty messed that name up.

The sign first said Death Valley, then Welcome to Death Valley. It never said Deaf Vally and I have picture in game days that show this dating to 1970.

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It was called Deaf Valley when I was a student back in the 70s.

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I was here from the '65 season through the '68 season and it WAS called Deaf Valley!

Maybe but I had tshirts with Deaf Valley on them in the 80s. It tried to stick around.

Everyone called it that till 1959

A child.

We used to have the deaf dome. But basketball isn't good

Call da amber lamps

My father who is deceased but older than most everyone here always said it was originally deaf valley then changed