College Rivalry Trophies-November 12 Edition

UAB and Memphis battle for the Bones:

According to wikipedia:

Recently the game has been accompanied by a barbecue competition befitting the "Battle for the Bones" theme.

Wisconsin and Minnesota play for Paul Bunyan's Axe, and used to play for the Slab of Bacon:

Paul Bunyan's Axe
photo from Stilleto Sports

Slab of Bacon

Akron and Kent play for the Wagon Wheel:

Wagon Wheel

Appalachian State and Western Carolina play for the Old Mountain Jug:

Old Mountain Jug

Mt St. Joseph and Thomas More play for the Bridge Bowl trophy:

Bridge Bowl trophy, and its designer

Wabash and DePauw play for the Monon Bell:

The Bell is a 300-pound locomotive bell from the Monon Railroad. At of the end of the 2010 season, the two teams have played against each other 117 times. Wabash leads the all-time series, 55-53-9, but DePauw has the advantage in games played since the Bell was introduced as the victor's trophy in 1932, 37-36-6.

300 pounds! Sports Illustrated featured the rivalry back in 1993, in the same week that Notre Dame beat Florida State.

Finally, on Tuesday, Ball State and Northern Illinois play for the Bronze Stalk trophy:

Since Northern Illinois is located in DeKalb, that seems appropriate.  Here is some DeKalb seed history I found interesting:

The history of DEKALB Genetics Corporation can be traced back to the Farm Bureau county organization, founded in DeKalb. Illinois in 1912. Tom Roberts, Sr. became the assistant manager in 1919 and then manager from 1920 to 1932. In 1923 Henry C. Wallace, the Secretary of Agriculture, spoke at the DeKalb Farm Bureau picnic and recommended development of hybrid corn. Roberts took up the project, even though he understood there would be a 12 year lead time before he could bring a product to market. As a result of this effort DeKalb AgResearch sold hybrid corn seed beginning in 1935. Sales expanded rapidly as Roberts organized a force of farmer-dealers, who were paid a 15% commission. The first popular hybrid was DEKALB 404A, which sold 508,000 bags in 1947, the same year total DEKALB sales exceeded 2,000,000 bags of seed corn. The first popular full- and short-season, large volume, single-cross maize hybrids were DEKALB hybrids 805 and XL 45. As a result, DEKALB was the leader in U.S. hybrid seed com sales from the mid-1930s until the mid-1970s (Crabb 1948. Roberts 1999).