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 from...

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 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 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 ...

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...