A gold miniature charm depicting a pair of football pants is given to all players and coaches following a victory over the Michigan Wolverines. The tradition began as the result of a comment to reporters by newly hired head coach Francis Schmidt on March 2, 1934: "How about Michigan? They put their pants on one leg at a time, the same as we do!" The first gold pants, which were a creation of Simon Lazarus (president of the Lazarus chain of department stores) and Herbert Levy,[23] were awarded that year for a 34-0 defeat of the Wolverines.[24]
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I'll also add that I agree with the comments about not wanting to see manufactured rivalries. They've done that with Penn State-M*ch*g*n State with the Land Grant Trophy. Who cares about that. I think there will be a natural interest regionally or even naturally in seeing Nebraska-Iowa and Nebraska-Wisconsin, but there's no need to do anything contrived around either of those. Just play the games, have the fans interact and let things develop.
I so want to make a "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" comment here. But I won't
Oops, did I type that out loud?
What was quoted from the wiki wasn't the complete story. Back when the gold pants came out, scUM previously had destroyed any team it played for a long time (holding a 22-6-2 record against tOSU). They were deemed unstoppable against any opponent they played. Basically, saying they were human just like anyone else. Thus the tradition started.
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What was quoted from the wiki wasn't the complete story. Back when the gold pants came out, scUM previously had destroyed any team it played for a long time (holding a 22-6-2 record against tOSU). They were deemed unstoppable against any opponent they played. Basically, saying they were human just like anyone else. Thus the tradition started.