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Originally Posted by NutBrnHair
LOVE the picture, TSteven!
(You might want to explain the history for some of these Georgia (johnny-come-lately Kentucky) fans!
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Thank you. The trophy for the Kentucky / Tennessee football game was The Beer Barrel. It was a blue, white and orange beer keg. The game was often referred to as the
Battle for the Beer Barrel.
I can't believe I had to go there to find the write up, but I found this at the Tennessee Athletic site. (I now need a shower.)
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"The original Battle for the Beer Barrel was conceived in 1925 by a Kentucky booster club for the football rivalry with Tennessee, so that the series would have a trophy similar to Purdue’s Old Oaken Bucket and Michigan’s Little Brown Jug. The first game played kept the barrel in Lexington, a 23-20 win for the Wildcats. The barrel exchanged hands numerous times, both at games and during raids on the opposing school’s campus. Tennessee held a 60-23-9 edge in the series with Kentucky when the Beer Barrel trophy game was discontinued due to the tragic deaths of several Kentucky football players in 1997 in an alcohol-related car crash."
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GO BIG BLUE!