Template:Did you know nominations/1909 Michigan Wolverines football team

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Carabinieri (talk) 22:14, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

1909 Michigan Wolverines football team

The Michigan Jug

alt 1 ... that 1909 Michigan football team won the first battle for the Little Brown Jug (pictured), the oldest rivalry trophy in college football?
alt 2 ... that the defeat of the 1909 Michigan football team by a predominantly Irish-American Notre Dame squad gave birth to the nickname "Fighting Irish"?

Created/expanded by Cbl62 (talk). Self nom at 21:34, 18 March 2012 (UTC)