Mini Trophies

From 1930 until 1943 the Golden Gophers and Badgers played for The Slab of Bacon Trophy; however, in the commotion that followed the 1943 contest,...

Established in 1925, the Old Oaken Bucket was the brainchild of Chicago-based alums from Indiana and Purdue. Both alumni groups felt a bucket from...

The Paul Bunyan Governor’s Trophy was first presented by then-Governor (and Michigan alumni) G. Mennen Williams in 1953 as a means of welcoming Mi...

In 1935 the governors of Iowa and Minnesota agreed that the winner of the Hawkeye and Golden Gopher gridiron battle would receive a prize hog from...

The Cy-Hawk Trophy, a celebration of The State of Iowa, is the prize awarded to the winner of the battle between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Iowa St...

The Iowa-Wisconsin football rivalry dates all the way back to 1894, however, it wasn’t until 2004 that the annual winner of this Big Ten contest w...

In 1925 Junior Honor Societies from Illinois and Ohio State were looking to create a trophy to celebrate the anticipated long series between these...

The Little Brown Jug was originally purchased by Michigan prior to their 1903 contest against Minnesota out of fear that the host Gophers wouldn’t...

The Old Brass Spittoon was purchased for $25 in 1950 in hopes of firing up the Spartans prior to their contest with the Hoosiers. Found in a Lansi...

The Hawkeye – Cornhusker rivalry dates all the way back to 1891, and the schools played with relative regularity through World War II. However the...

Before there was Paul Bunyan’s Axe…there was the Slab of Bacon. The Badgers and Gophers began playing for this trophy back in 1930, with the belie...

The Purdue Cannon’s long and storied history dates back to 1905 when a group of Purdue students brought it to Illinois with plans of shooting it f...