The Iowa State–Missouri football rivalry was an American
college football rivalry
A rivalry is the state of two people or groups engaging in a lasting competitive relationship. Rivalry is the "against each other" spirit between two competing sides. The relationship itself may also be called "a rivalry", and each participant ...
between the
Iowa State Cyclones football team of
Iowa State University and
Missouri Tigers football team of the
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in ...
. From 1959 onward the Telephone Trophy was awarded to the victorious squad.
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After the 2011 game, Missouri joined the
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States. Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities o ...
, thus ending the rivalry.
Telephone Trophy
The Telephone Trophy consists of an old
rotary telephone that sits atop a tall wooden base. The receiver of the telephone is painted half gold and half red (gold for Missouri and red for Iowa State). A large metal plate on the base of the trophy shows the complete results for each Telephone Trophy game.
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History
Before the 1959 match-up between the two schools, which took place in Ames, Iowa, field testing showed that the telephones the two schools used to communicate with their coaches in the coaches box were wired so that either school could hear what was happening on the other sideline. The problem was fixed before the game,[ but neither of the two coaches knew that.
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company of Ames then decided to have a trophy made to commemorate the incident, and thus the Telephone Trophy was born.][Telephone Trophy]
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Game results
See also
* List of NCAA college football rivalry games
* List of most-played college football series in NCAA Division I
References
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College football rivalries in the United States
Iowa State Cyclones football
Missouri Tigers football
Iowa State Cyclones traditions