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...despair into which I am plunged when some accident halts the Ann Arbor juggernaut and Minnesota comes out ahead. That Minnesota game for the past four years has been the bane of my existence, spiritual and financial. My credo states as a fundamental premise that The Little Brown Jug belongs on a shelf in the Perry Field Athletic Building and that it is only a streak of bad luck that has allowed it to stray up to Little Sweden. I have a number of Minnesota acquaintances here in Cambridge, and they all take pleasure in taunting me and betting money...
...seven-hour session, distracted by members rushing in & out to telephone for train reservations, to phone long-distance for the latest football scores, to rush into the chairman's inner office for a quick nip at a mysterious jug inside, the committee also struck out the guts of the enforcement system proposed...
...Williams had been alive last week he would have been proud of this year's Gophers. At Ann Arbor, before the largest crowd (85,753) that ever crammed into the Michigan Stadium, Minnesota met its old rival in a titanic tug of war for the Little Brown Jug for which they have tugged since 1903, when Dr. Williams' upstarts held Yost's famed point-a-minute Michigan team to a 6-to-6 tie. The water jug Michigan used that day was held as hostage by delirious Minnesota students, has since served as their traditional trophy...
This year more than the jug was at stake. For Minnesota, undefeated this season, was ranked No. 1 in last week's Associated Press poll. Michigan, also undefeated, was ranked No. 3 (No. 2: Texas). The scrappy Wolverines, still clinging to Yost's "punt, pass and a prayer," were bent on kicking Minnesota off its perch...
This Saturday, at Ann Arbor, Minnesota and Michigan will fight for the Little Brown Jug, a trophy that has survived 38 years of football rivalry. Until last week, this year's Michigan team-"wrecked" by the loss of Tom Harmon and Forrest Evashevski-was written off as a pushover for Coach Bernie Bierman's gigantic Gophers, favorites to win the mythical 1941 football championship of the U.S. as they did the 1940. But last week Michigan's omens improved: Michigan outsmarted Northwestern (14-to-7). More important for the superstitious, its victory was won with brilliant touchdown...