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per the Detroit News:
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh certainly understands what it means to lose the Little Brown Jug, the trophy awarded the winner of the Michigan-Minnesota game.
The 15th-ranked Wolverines (5-2, 2-1 Big Ten) were off last weekend and preparing to play at Minnesota (4-3, 1-2) at TCF Bank Stadium Saturday night. The teams won't meet again until 2017 in Ann Arbor.
The Wolverines were ranked No. 2 in 1986, Harbaugh was a co-captain and quarterback, and they had not lost in 15 straight games.
Minnesota was a huge underdog, but with two minutes left at Michigan Stadium and the teams tied, 17-17, Gophers quarterback Rickey Foggie scrambled to put Chip Lohmiller in position to kick the winning 30-yard field goal. Foggie had thrown and run for a score in the game and Lohmiller also had made a 25-yard field goal. It was the first time since 1977 the Gophers won the Little Brown Jug.
Michigan won the Jug in 1987 and didn't lose it again until 2005.
"There were other low points in my college career, but that was one of them," Harbaugh said Tuesday on the Big Ten conference call. "Our team was able to bounce back the next week. Very proud of that.
"That was so long ago. How long ago was that? Darn near 30 years, 29 years ago. Rickey Foggie played a heck of a game, Chip Lohmiller was the kicker ... I've got memories of it."
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...vs-minnesota-preceded-osu-guarantee/74686674/
Go Gophers!!
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh certainly understands what it means to lose the Little Brown Jug, the trophy awarded the winner of the Michigan-Minnesota game.
The 15th-ranked Wolverines (5-2, 2-1 Big Ten) were off last weekend and preparing to play at Minnesota (4-3, 1-2) at TCF Bank Stadium Saturday night. The teams won't meet again until 2017 in Ann Arbor.
The Wolverines were ranked No. 2 in 1986, Harbaugh was a co-captain and quarterback, and they had not lost in 15 straight games.
Minnesota was a huge underdog, but with two minutes left at Michigan Stadium and the teams tied, 17-17, Gophers quarterback Rickey Foggie scrambled to put Chip Lohmiller in position to kick the winning 30-yard field goal. Foggie had thrown and run for a score in the game and Lohmiller also had made a 25-yard field goal. It was the first time since 1977 the Gophers won the Little Brown Jug.
Michigan won the Jug in 1987 and didn't lose it again until 2005.
"There were other low points in my college career, but that was one of them," Harbaugh said Tuesday on the Big Ten conference call. "Our team was able to bounce back the next week. Very proud of that.
"That was so long ago. How long ago was that? Darn near 30 years, 29 years ago. Rickey Foggie played a heck of a game, Chip Lohmiller was the kicker ... I've got memories of it."
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...vs-minnesota-preceded-osu-guarantee/74686674/
Go Gophers!!
