Did the Original 1903 Jug Survive All These Years?

[Ed. Mandatory reading for Jug Week. This 2009 post discusses whether the original jug that Michigan bought (likely on October 30, 1903) and Oscar Munson found (on November 1 (or 2), 1903, is the same jug that will be on the field this Saturday. If you haven’t read it I think you’ll like it.]

One of the critical questions I asked when I started research was this: Is the jug that Michigan equipment manager Jon Falk has tucked away the same crock that was purchased by U-M student manager Tommy Roberts in Minneapolis back in 1903 and returned to Fielding Yost in 1909?

I knew a key to resolving this was determining what exactly occurred during the period the jug was missing in the 1930s, which I…