Michigan and Northwestern Announce New Rivalry Trophy Named After George Jewett-First African-American Player in the B1G who Played for Both Schools

Might as well. Everyone and their mother has an imagined rivalry with Michigan. 

It is pretty clearly more focused on honoring Dr. Jewett than the two teams rivalry, which is fine. Just means he will get talked about when the teams play.

Meh - it's nice to honor such a groundbreaking player, but... do we really need another adventitious trophy?

If we really want a trophy over NW - let's (for example) go steal Pat Fitzgerald's old playing gear and make him win it back... something petty and asinine - which it what college rivalries are meant to be.

Nice historical tribute - and, we want all the trophies!

Surprised the wikipedia entry doesn't already have the trophy game info in it (as of 12:05pm ET on 2/25/21)

sure wish they'd called it the 'george jewett xtramelanin trophy'.   

has a nice ring to it.  

Worthy said on his Twitter that he wasn’t going to join the team until the summer. It’s possible he just wanted a head start on his education in case he wanted to leave early for NFL or if the worst happens and he wants to grad transfer in 3 years

Stewart does have the size to be a nose at DT. I know he played some DT in high school but this is probably to have more depth

Also doesn’t look there are updated weights on that spring roster

The return of Vastard the bastard is huge for this team! An experienced, intelligent, quality center is huge. No wonder the carpenter went to IU.

And how else do you introduce a game trophy?

That’s a great call. 
Winning team earns the opportunity to display and protect the trophy that commemorates a historically tremendous student athlete. 

Glad to know teldar is fine with honoring him! I was worried there for a second. We'll just go ahead and scrap the trophy. Anything else we can do for you?

What's his issue with it?

I like the idea of having a rivalry with Northwestern as we are obviously the two best universities in the conference. 

I’m so glad WD is not on this site anymore. 

After reading his wikipage bio, I'm more inclined to believe it might be. Sounds like quite the upstanding gent: 

"Jewett grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the son of a successful blacksmith. At the time of the 1870 United States Census, he was listed as being one month old. His father was George Jewett, a blacksmith born in Kentucky in approximately 1845, and his mother was Letty Jewett, born in Michigan to parents from Missouri in approximately 1848. He had an older sister, Mary, born in approximately 1868.The family was residing in Ann Arbor at the time of both the 1870 and 1880 Censuses.

Jewett attended Ann Arbor High School where he was the class valedictorian in 1889. In high school, he was the captain of the debate, football and baseball teams. He was also the fastest sprinter in the Midwest, having won the Amateur Athletic Union 100-yard dash competition, and was fluent in German, Italian and French."

My principal at Tappan Jr High was a tall black man named George Jewett.  He let us paint his car and he drove it all over town like that.  Dude was pretty ccol.

There was a Jewett Street in Ann Arbor before 1891

Originally the stretch from West Liberty to West Huron was named Jewett Street, while the dogleg continuing north to Miller was Mann Street, named for the family of Jonathan Henry Mann, the patriarch of the Old West Side's German community. Jewett and Mann were both absorbed into Seventh after being connected up with the original portion south of Liberty in 1891.

https://aadl.org/aaobserver/19282

That doesn't mean that the existing Jewett Street is not named after George Jewett, just that the street name existed before George Jewett became famous.  The source doesn't say what the original Jewett Street was named for.

I hope they go the extra step and play in 1890s uniforms with a patch honoring him.

The 1890s uniforms would be cool. But hopefully we'd add helmets too, right? ?