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per the Detroit News:
The Little Brown Jug is a very old, not particularly attractive, earthenware jug, and yet people have made appointments to take selfies with it and book the Jug for various events during its current stay in Minneapolis.
This is the life of the nation's oldest trophy, awarded to the winner of the Michigan-Minnesota game. It has spent the past year at Minnesota, after the Gophers beat the Wolverines 30-14 in Michigan Stadium last fall.
Michigan plays at Minnesota on Saturday night, and the Gophers will attempt to keep the trophy for consecutive years – actually, the winner will have the Jug until 2017, when the teams are scheduled to meet again – for the first time since the Gophers won a four-game stretch from 1960-63. Otherwise, every time the Gophers have won it, Michigan has won it back the following opportunity.
"Once you personally get your hands on the Little Brown Jug, and you have it around, it's one of the best traditions of college football," Minnesota associate head coach / defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys said Tuesday on the Big Ten conference call. He filled in for head coach Jerry Kill, who had a previous appointment.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...extended-stay-with-little-brown-jug/74695908/
Go Gophers!!
The Little Brown Jug is a very old, not particularly attractive, earthenware jug, and yet people have made appointments to take selfies with it and book the Jug for various events during its current stay in Minneapolis.
This is the life of the nation's oldest trophy, awarded to the winner of the Michigan-Minnesota game. It has spent the past year at Minnesota, after the Gophers beat the Wolverines 30-14 in Michigan Stadium last fall.
Michigan plays at Minnesota on Saturday night, and the Gophers will attempt to keep the trophy for consecutive years – actually, the winner will have the Jug until 2017, when the teams are scheduled to meet again – for the first time since the Gophers won a four-game stretch from 1960-63. Otherwise, every time the Gophers have won it, Michigan has won it back the following opportunity.
"Once you personally get your hands on the Little Brown Jug, and you have it around, it's one of the best traditions of college football," Minnesota associate head coach / defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys said Tuesday on the Big Ten conference call. He filled in for head coach Jerry Kill, who had a previous appointment.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...extended-stay-with-little-brown-jug/74695908/
Go Gophers!!
