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This process, too, got its versity was informed that some of his What they introduced then was not just start from Rutgers— Princeton. The two students intended to travel to Ann a game but a new word—"rivalry." That, schools had been fighting over a Revolu- Arbor, Mich., for the express purpose of more than anything else, is what makes tionary War cannon for years and they playing a strange new game called foot- the college game so unique. Rivalries are finally decided the best way to deter- ball. The president, one Andrew White, what separate the college game from the mine ownership would be to play foot- cancelled the Cornell — Michigan game professional, whether it's for a one-year ball. From that was spawned a hoary and uttered the first faculty resistance possession of an Old Oaken Bucket or succession of Little Brown Jugs. in sentiments we still hear, from time to for bragging rights to a whole state or a The Little Brown Jug is probably foot- time, almost a century later: "I shall not city. College football invented sports ri- ball's most famous objet d'art, but you permit 30 men to travel 400 miles," he valries and it bristles with them ... intra- should know that it started out as nei- thundered, "merely to agitate a bag of state, cross-town, border, interservice ther little nor brown, rather a gray plas- wind." He was, of course, fighting a los- . LSU —Ole Miss., Alabama — Auburn, ter crock, two-and-a-half feet tall, which ing battle. Michigan — Michigan State, Indiana — was filled with fresh spring water For the game, as we all know, has Purdue, Pitt — Penn State, Army —Navy, sipped by early Michigan teams. Back flourished, to the point that on golden USC — UCLA ... it is an endless, throb- in 1903, having run up a 29-game win- autumn Saturdays no one will argue if bing list fed by one great truism: Every- ning streak under Coach Fielding Yost, you suggest that it wasn't Columbus body has somebody he likes to see get Michigan played Minnesota and was who discovered America but Princeton beat. It is that simple. held to a 6-6 tie. Disgraced, the Michigan and Rutgers, back there in 1869 when Almost every rivalry features a side bet team fled and left the water crock be- they gathered at New Brunswick, NJ., involving some sort of tangible evidence hind. "Yost left his jug," the Minnesota solemnly removed their waistcoats and of success, ranging from a wooden turtle Swedes chortled. The Gophers said then took turns pummeling one another to a giant steer hide, with the scores continued It The Seasorj^longs to Jantzen Holiday Warmth For a grand opening this Christmas, let friends, lovers and family know that a Jantzen cableknit sweater will do handsomely, thank you. These sweaters have the look and feel of worsted wool, but they are machine washable Wintuk Orion® About $37.50. n. Inc Portland. Oregon 97208 Great Rivalries continued Michigan would have to win it back, and nishing Hamilton Fish and Eddie Mahan in 1968.I they have been snarling over it ever and a Senator-to-be named Edward It is said that many oil wells are since. Kennedy, who scored the only Crimson wagered on the outcome of this game, Rivalries do not need any artificial em- TD in a 1955 defeat. It was Charlie that Nieman-Marcus makes more sales bellishment, of course, to trigger flaming Yeager, the student manager for Yale, than during Christmas week, that the emotions, the kind that become so fer- who slipped unnoticed onto the field streets are more liquid and rowdy than vent that nothing else matters except the and caught a conversion pass, thereby even the French Quarter during Mardi game. How significant is a college foot- rousing the ire of Harvardites, who cried Gras, and that the all-time NCAA record ball rivalry? Consider the Texas — foul play. The very next year, however, a for sales of aspirin was set at the corner Arkansas affair. One year, the pastor of Harvard student loosed several greased of Commerce and Akard Streets. It all the Fayetteville (Ark.) First Baptist pigs in the Yale Bowl . during the game began heating up in the late 1940s when Church, Rev. Andrew Hall, probably put . er, that is, The Game. Oklahoma won nine out of 10. This was it in perspective when he filled the Neither school is thought of as a foot- when Bud Wilkinson was coaching five church message board with this admo- ball super power today, but to stroll undefeated teams and three national nition: "Football is only a game. Spiritual through the leaves on a burnished after- champions, and, disgruntled Longhom things are eternal. Nevertheless . BEAT noon in either New Haven or Cam- fans grumbled, did it by luring some TEXAS!" bridge, to inhale the color and the atmo- prime Texas recruits across the Red The original traditional rivalry began sphere, the tailgating and the class River. Texas got its revenge under Dan-ell back in 1875, by a couple of schools you reunions, is to taste the anticipation that Royal, who, in the most delicious of might have heard of in casual con- is the core of the appeal of college foot- ironies, had played for Oklahoma. As the versation. Yale and Harvard. Even today ball rivalries. Texas coach, he won 10 of his first 12 it is still referred to simply as The Game. If Harvard — Yale conjures up visions from the Sooners. But Oklahoma That might sound a bit pretentious now, of cerebral battle, then Texas — bounced right back, even to the point of but there was a time when this con- Oklahoma strips right down to the nub whipping Texas with its own inven- frontation settled what was then the na- of raw emotion. Each October the Cotton tion—the Wishbone. tional championship. Now it may mean, Bowl is a pandemoniacal sellout, with Up north there is another frothing to the outside world, nothing more than the bands trying to drown each other feud involving Michigan and Ohio State. first place in the Ivy League. But to the out with "The Eyes of Texas" and They started butting heads in 1897 and partisans it is still as meaningful as it "Boomer Sooner." The Longhorns and for a long time it was like two dinosaurs was when raccoon coats were the rage. Sooners have been playing since 1900, elbow-locked over a tar pit. The two They may not get too worked up about and the game became the key attraction agreed to move the date to the final Yale — Harvard down in Baton Rouge or of the State Fair of Texas in 1915. This game of the season in 1935 and what Lubbock or South Bend or Tuscaloosa or assures that upwards of 300,000 people they did was create a whole new second Norman, but when The Game ap- will flood Dallas, and 225,000 of them season. Nineteen times this one has de- proaches, Wall Street gets worked up. won't have a ticket for the game. That cided the Big Ten title and a berth in the Yale, remember, gave us Walter Camp will not dull their revelry. This is the Rose Bowl, and it has produced some of and Amos Alonzo Stagg, not to mention only known rivalry where newspapers the game's real glamour names—Tom Pudge Heffelfinger and Albie Booth and routinely include in all the statistics a Harmon and Forest Evashevski, "Hop- Larry Kelley, while Harvard was fur- boxscore of arrests. (The record is 700, along "Cassady and Archie Griffin, Fritz Crisler and Wayne Woodrow Hayes. The Little Brown Jug dates back to 1903 and belongs to the victor of the Minnesota- They take no prisoners in this series. Michigan game. Whenever one school gets the other down, it stomps. Michigan won 40-0 once and in '46 was up 55-0 and driving for more; stopped on third down at the Buckeye 12, the Wolverines added insult to injury with a field goal. OSU got in its licks, too. One year the Bucks scored with only five seconds to play and went for two, completing a 50 to 20 rout. In 1968, OSU ran it up again, 50-14. So the next year, the week before the rematch, Michigan wore red practice jerseys with "50" stenciled in large numbers across the front as a graphic reminder. Thus inspired, Michigan extracted its revenge, 24-12. Every November they go at it, in either Ann Arbor or in Columbus. It is always brutally cold, occasionally fought in a blizzard, and it is always a sellout.