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Badgers football: New Axe protocol designed to prevent postgame melee

Instead of the axe being kept behind the bench of the current caretaker during the game, it will appear for the ceremonial coin toss and then vanish until the game is over. Instead of players from the winning team gathering up the axe and using it to feign the act of chopping down both goal posts, the axe will be made available to the winners in the end zone closest to their locker room.