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"Little Brown Jug" is a song written in 1869 by Joseph Eastburn Winner, originally published in Philadelphia with the author listed as Winner's middle name "Eastburn".
The Little Brown Jug is the most regularly exchanged rivalry trophy in college football, the oldest trophy game in FBS college football, and the second oldest rivalry trophy overall, next to the 1899 Territorial Cup (which did not become a travelling/exchange trophy until 2001), contested between Arizona and Arizona State (which did not become ...
Little Brown Jug (college football trophy), an American award dating to 1892; Little Brown Jug (horse racing), an American harness race for Standardbreds first run in 1946, or its namesake horse; Little Brown Jug (actor) or Don Reynolds (1937–2019), American child performer; Little Brown Jug (plant) or Hexastylis arifolia, a wildflower found ...
The Little Brown Jug is contested in heats. Up until 2016, a horse had to win 2 heats in order to be crowned the winner of the Little Brown Jug. The first heat is split into several divisions, with the top finishers in each division returning to contest the second heat. A horse wins the Little Brown Jug by winning both heats.
In the decades that followed, one of Hatch's jobs was to serve as the custodian of the jug during the time it was in Ann Arbor and to print each year's game score on the side of the jug. In 1953, the NEA wire service distributed a photograph of Hatch placing the score on the jug on the 50th anniversary of the first Little Brown Jug match. [13]
Joseph Eastburn Winner (c. 1837–1918) was an American composer and music publisher. He is best known for his tune "The Little Brown Jug" (1869).He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he operated a publishing business from 1854 to 1907.
Hexastylis arifolia, or the little brown jug, is a perennial wildflower in the family Aristolochiaceae found in the southeastern United States, from Louisiana to Virginia, inland as far as Kentucky. [2] It is considered a threatened species in Florida.
Replica of the Little Brown Jug on display in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2007. The real Jug is kept in storage. The 1903 game against Minnesota also gave rise to the tradition of the two teams playing for the Little Brown Jug. When the Michigan team arrived in Minneapolis, Yost reportedly instructed student manager Thomas B. Roberts to purchase a ...