In this short video, I take a look at the origin story involving Michigan’s coach Fielding H. Yost asking for the return of the jug after the 1903 game. I also take a look at the alleged the response from Minnesota that he and Michigan would need to “WIN it back.”
This story is important to the origin story of college football’s oldest rivalry trophy tradition, but is it really what happened? I examine some of the problems with this and much more in this video:
For more, check out Little Brown Jug Lore.
3 Comments
Ethan Rein
Great photo around the 8 minute mark. Do you know what house that is? Is it still standing?
MVictors (Greg Dooley)
Hey, so that’s the ‘Ice Yacht Club House’ on Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota. It says taken 2 days before the game – I believe it was closer to a day or morning of. But it’s pretty cool. Not sure if it is still standing! Link: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/p17208coll18/id/902/
Ethan Rein
Great info! Thanks for the link