The Telephone Trophy is the identify of the traveling trophy offered just about every yr to the winner of the university football game performed among the University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU for shorter) and the Iowa State College Cyclones (normally abbreviated ISU). The historical past of this coveted award regarded as the Telephone Trophy dates back again to the yr 1959.
The bodily character of the Phone Trophy is that of a rotary mobile phone from a bygone period. As opposed to a contact tone mobile phone with buttons the rotary type of early telephones has as circular turn design that is employed to dial numbers. Right before the proliferation of contact tone telephones the rotary phone was a a lot more time consuming way to put calls. The receiver, portion of the rotary cellphone applied for listening, is coloured 50 % red (Iowa Condition colour) and 50 % yellow (Mizzou shade). On the base of the Phone Trophy are the engraved scores of each game performed for the traveling trophy in between Iowa State University and the MU.
The College of Missouri is found in Columbia, Missouri. This predominately faculty city is centrally positioned in the point out of Missouri. Iowa Condition University is situated in Ames, Iowa which is centrally situated inside that point out. A distance of 275 miles separates the two universities. The 275 miles in between the two faculty campuses can typically be lined in a auto in between 4 and a half and five hours.
While both equally the Mizzou soccer system and the Cyclones are equally members of the Massive 12 Meeting (and in point both equally users of the Major Twelve North sub-division) the two schools are not normally linked as rival establishments the way other a lot more popular rivalries are. The origin of the Phone Trophy has much more to do with an odd story than an actual hated rivalry.
When these two schools played each other in 1959 there had been some complications with the phone units that were used to allow for coaches on the field to talk with coaches upstairs in the coaches boxes (a perched placement that will allow for good visibility of the overall field from an aerial viewpoint). Conventional exercise dictates that Missouri coaches on the discipline would have closed accessibility to communicate with Missouri coaches in the box and Iowa Condition coaches on the subject would have closed obtain to connect with Iowa Condition coaches in their box. Up until finally just in advance of the activity kicked off coaches from the two teams have been capable to hear in on communications from the other workforce. The wiring mishap was properly right just before the recreation started out. To commemorate and make light up the mix up the company service provider in the region (Northwestern Bell) experienced a trophy manufactured in honor of the incident. That trophy would turn out to be the touring Telephone Trophy for a long time to come.
