Full-Size Trophies

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

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 fro...

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 Sta...

  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 fr...

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 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 wa...

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...

The Border War began when The University of Wyoming and Colorado State University first met on the gridiron in 1899; this annual contest is among t...

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

North Dakota State and South Dakota State first met in 1903, when NDSU was North Dakota Agricultural. In the years since the Bison and Jackrabbits ...

Minnesota and Penn State both boast impressive resumes dating back to the 1880’s, but it wasn’t until Penn State’s admission into the Big Ten Confe...

The Nebraska-Wisconsin rivalry dates all the way back to 1901, when the Badgers blanked the Cornhuskers 18-0. The teams would take a 64-year hiatus...

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...

The first meeting between the Northwestern Wildcats and the Illinois Fighting Illinois took place in 1892 when the programs battled to a 16-16 tie ...