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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.
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.
We tried to make the narrative a little different too. When he proposes to June Allyson, it’s very humorous, because she has curlers in, and so forth. At the end when he’s dead, instead of very sentimental music, we played ‘Little Brown Jug,’ so that it gave it a different feeling from just sentimentality.
It was in this capacity that he came into possession of the Little Brown Jug, after Michigan left it behind following a road game against the Gophers football team. Cooke famously refused to return the trophy to the Wolverines, and the battle for the Little Brown Jug was born.
Little Brown Jug Wall of Fame honors those persons who have made a contribution to the success of the Little Brown Jug harness race. It is located at the Delaware County, Ohio fairgrounds at 236 Pennsylvania Avenue, Delaware, Ohio. Through the auspices of the Delaware County Fair, the new member is presented with a Wall of Fame jacket and a ...