I was lucky enough to get a copy of St. Paul Pioneer Press Columnist Brian Murphy’s new book published by Triumph Books. It’s the latest in a string of books with the similar title with just the team and content changed. In this version, Murphy writes 100 separate essays on everything University of Minnesota. Murphy’s topics range from Gophers historical figures such as Herb Brooks and Bronko Nagurski to its traditions such as the Ski-U-Mah battle cry and the various football trophies (he even finds room to write about the Governor’s Victory Bell as one of the 100). His essays span the length of Gopher athletics—from the origin of the Little Brown Jug in 1903 to the hiring of PJ Fleck in 2017.
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