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The Border-Gavaskar Trophy recognizes the annual Test cricket series played between India and Australia. It’s named after former Australian captain Allan Border and Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar. The trophy is awarded to the team winning the series, primarily for fans of international Test cr...
The Bledisloe Cup represents the longest continuous international sporting contest in the world. It’s a rugby union trophy awarded annually to the winner of matches between the New Zealand All Blacks and Australia Wallabies. The competition is deeply rooted in history and national pride, primarily f...
The Calcutta Cup represents the historic rivalry between England and Scotland in rugby union. Established in 1879, it’s the oldest international trophy awarded for a nation versus nation contest. The match is contested annually within Six Nations play and is primarily for players and fans associated...
The Paul Bunyan’s Axe is a traditional trophy presented to the victor of the annual football game between the University of Wisconsin Badgers and the Minnesota Golden Gophers. This rivalry, dating back to 1890, represents one of college football's most intense contests. The axe symbolizes the longst...
The Jeweled Shillelagh represents the historic rivalry between the University of Notre Dame and the University of Southern California. Awarded annually to the victor of their football game, it’s one of college football's oldest and most prestigious intersectional trophies. The shillelagh itself is a...
The Battle for Paul Bunyan's Axe is the annual college football rivalry game between the Minnesota Golden Gophers and Wisconsin Badgers. The universities first played in 1890, making the series one of the longest-running rivalries in top-level American college football. Since 1948, the winner has re...
The Little Brown Jug is the traveling trophy awarded to the winner of the college football game between the Michigan Wolverines and Minnesota Golden Gophers. Its origin is connected to a water jug used during the teams' 1903 game, after which Minnesota kept the jug and the schools established a trop...
The Trans-Tasman Trophy is awarded for Test cricket series played between the men's national teams of Australia and New Zealand. Its name refers to the Tasman Sea separating the two countries, whose sporting rivalry extends across several codes. First contested in the 1985-86 season, the trophy is d...
The Commander-in-Chief's Trophy is awarded annually among the Army, Navy, and Air Force football teams, with the series established in the United States in 1972.
The Paul Bunyan Trophy is awarded annually to the winner of the college football game between the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. Established in 1953, the trophy consists of a wooden statue of the mythical lumberjack Paul Bunyan standing on a base. It represents the intrastate...
Floyd of Rosedale is the traveling trophy awarded to the winner of the annual college football rivalry game between the University of Iowa and the University of Minnesota. The trophy is a bronze statue of a pig, originated in 1935 following a wager between the governors of Iowa and Minnesota to defu...
The Territorial Cup is the trophy associated with the college football rivalry between the University of Arizona Wildcats and the Arizona State University Sun Devils. The name refers to the cup awarded after the teams' 1899 game, played while Arizona was still a United States territory. The annual m...
The Commonwealth Cup is the trophy awarded to the winner of the annual American college football game between the University of Virginia Cavaliers and the Virginia Tech Hokies. The interstate rivalry was first played in 1895, while the cup itself was introduced in 1996. Both programs compete in the...
The Monon Bell Classic is an annual NCAA Division III college football rivalry game contested between Wabash College and DePauw University in Indiana. The teams first met in 1890, making it one of the oldest small-college football rivalries in the United States. Since 1932, the winner has been award...
The Battle for the Golden Boot is the annual college football rivalry game between Louisiana State University (LSU) and the University of Arkansas, both members of the Southeastern Conference. The winner receives the Golden Boot, a large gold trophy shaped like the combined geographic outlines of th...
The Old Oaken Bucket is the traveling trophy awarded to the winner of the annual college football rivalry game between the Indiana Hoosiers and the Purdue Boilermakers. Both universities are located in the state of Indiana and compete in the NCAA's Big Ten Conference, with their football series dati...
The Governor's Cup is the trophy awarded to the victor of the annual college football rivalry game between the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville. Established in 1994, the matchup brings together two major programs from the Southeastern Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conferen...
The Sunflower Showdown is the athletic rivalry between the University of Kansas and Kansas State University. Named after the official nickname of the state of Kansas, the rivalry spans various collegiate sports but is heavily followed in football and basketball. The two schools first faced each othe...
The Cy-Hawk Series is Iowa's all-sports rivalry between Iowa State and Iowa, begun in 2004 and counting shared regular-season sports.
The Atlantic Cup is DC United versus New York Red Bulls, an MLS rivalry trophy inaugurated in 2002 for the regular-season series.
The Rocky Mountain Cup is the Major League Soccer rivalry between Real Salt Lake and the Colorado Rapids, established in 2005 to contest regional geographic supremacy.
