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per the Spokesman-Recorder:
There are no more than three to four former football players that get talked about at the University of Minnesota. We see the great Sandy Stephens, Bobby Bell, Tony Dungy, and sometimes we might hear Darrell Thompson mentioned. However, there are hundreds of African American football players who gave their lives and their souls to the field at the University of Minnesota, and their stories need to be seen and heard as well.
These traveling trophies—the Little Brown Jug and the Floyd of Rosedale Pig—have a deep history of incidents of racism and pride from former and present student athletes of African American descent. We need to know about them.
Recently the University of Minnesota football team got beat by the University of Iowa in football 34 to 7. We haven’t won a game against Iowa since 2014 (MN 51- IA 14). I guarantee you that 98% of the football players at the University Minnesota do not know who Ozzy Solomon is and why his play had a significant impact in that game against Iowa.
I asked two former Golden Gopher greats if they understood why they were playing for the Floyd of Rosedale Pig. The first was Bobby Holmes, running back for the Gophers 1973-1976. He played with Tony Dungy, Mike Jones, and Rick Upchurch.
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Go Gophers!!
There are no more than three to four former football players that get talked about at the University of Minnesota. We see the great Sandy Stephens, Bobby Bell, Tony Dungy, and sometimes we might hear Darrell Thompson mentioned. However, there are hundreds of African American football players who gave their lives and their souls to the field at the University of Minnesota, and their stories need to be seen and heard as well.
These traveling trophies—the Little Brown Jug and the Floyd of Rosedale Pig—have a deep history of incidents of racism and pride from former and present student athletes of African American descent. We need to know about them.
Recently the University of Minnesota football team got beat by the University of Iowa in football 34 to 7. We haven’t won a game against Iowa since 2014 (MN 51- IA 14). I guarantee you that 98% of the football players at the University Minnesota do not know who Ozzy Solomon is and why his play had a significant impact in that game against Iowa.
I asked two former Golden Gopher greats if they understood why they were playing for the Floyd of Rosedale Pig. The first was Bobby Holmes, running back for the Gophers 1973-1976. He played with Tony Dungy, Mike Jones, and Rick Upchurch.

The truth about traveling football trophies | Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
These traveling trophies—the Little Brown Jug and the Floyd of Rosedale Pig—have a deep history of incidents of racism and pride from former and present student athletes of African American descent.

Go Gophers!!