The Little Brown Jug is a trophy contested between the Michigan Wolverines football team of the University of Michigan and the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team of the University of Minnesota. Th
Replica of the Little Brown Jug on display in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2007. The real jug is kept in storage.
The 2003 edition of the battle for the Little Brown Jug. This particular game was famous for being the biggest comeback in Michigan football history.
Oscar Munson with the Little Brown Jug (1928)
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Louis Joseph "Doc" Cooke was an American basketball coach. He was the first head men's basketball coach at the University of Minnesota. He coached the Minnesota Golden Gophers men’s basketball team fo
Little Brown Jug (college football trophy)
…off the field, leaving the jug behind in the locker room of the University of Minnesota Armory. The next day custodian Oscar Munson brought the jug to L. J. Cooke, head of the Minnesota athletics department, and declared in a thick Scandinavian accent: "Yost left his jug." Exactly how Munson came to possess the…
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