# Sports leagues where one championship trophy is passed from champions **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 11, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447 "2016-08-11T15:10:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/1 "2016-08-11T15:10:13Z")
The NHL passes the Stanley cup from team to team instead of making New ones. I believe the AHL does the same thing with the Calder Cup. Do any other American ssports leagues do this? Since I counted the AHL, minors and college leagues do count. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/2 "2016-08-11T15:36:00Z")
I know that the NFL _doesn’t_; they create a new Lombardi Trophy each year for the winner of the Super Bowl. The Packers Hall of Fame contains a case with their four trophies. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/3 "2016-08-11T15:44:25Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I know that the NFL _doesn’t_; they create a new Lombardi Trophy each year for the winner of the Super Bowl. The Packers Hall of Fame contains a case with their four trophies. And they are BEAUTIFUL! From what I’ve gathered, most college rivalry games have a trophy that gets passed back and forth depending on wins. Championships, though? I’m not sure. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/4 "2016-08-11T15:59:53Z")
America’s Cup? Aren’t there some (English) football trophies that are unique - the such and so Plate and thingummy Cup? Aren’t there some American horse racing trophies that are similarly unique? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/5 "2016-08-11T16:31:49Z")
This used to be the rule for many sports. The J[ules Rimet Trophy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_Trophy#Jules_Rimet_Trophy) was given to the winners of the FIFA World Cup from 1930 to 1970, when the three time winners Brazil earned the right to keep it permanently. The [Champions League Trophy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Champion_Clubs%27_Cup)was also given to winner for 9 months, hatrick winners and 5 title winners were permitted to keep the trophy. Since 2009, a replica is given. The [FA Cup trophy i](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Cup#Trophy)s kept by the winners until March 1 of the following year. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/6 "2016-08-11T17:44:31Z")
I think the Grey Cup (Canadian Football League) is the same trophy from one year to the next. Major League Baseball and the NBA also create new trophies each year for their champions. The NCAA also does this for all of its sports. The closest thing I can think of to a “permanent trophy” in college sports are the objects used as “trophies” in rivalry games (almost always football); for example, the Little Brown Jug that goes to the winner of the Michigan-Minnesota game Notice that the “permanent” trophies, except for the college rivalry ones, all date back to the 1800s. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/7 "2016-08-11T17:46:56Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > I think the Grey Cup (Canadian Football League) is the same trophy from one year to the next. > > Major League Baseball and the NBA also create new trophies each year for their champions. The NCAA also does this for all of its sports. The closest thing I can think of to a “permanent trophy” in college sports are the objects used as “trophies” in rivalry games (almost always football); for example, the Little Brown Jug that goes to the winner of the Michigan-Minnesota game > > Notice that the “permanent” trophies, except for the college rivalry ones, all date back to the 1800s. The [Calder Cup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calder_Cup) doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/8 "2016-08-11T18:51:58Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > I think the Grey Cup (Canadian Football League) is the same trophy from one year to the next. This does appear to be the case. The Grey Cup has a rather colorful history, not unlike the Stanley Cup. Maybe it’s a Canadian thing? 😉 > **[Grey Cup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Cup#Trophy)** > > The Grey Cup (French: Coupe Grey) is both the championship game of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the trophy awarded to the victorious team playing in the namesake championship of professional Canadian football. The game is contested between the winners of the CFL's East and West Divisional playoffs and is one of Canadian television's largest annual sporting events. The Toronto Argonauts have the most Grey Cup wins (18) since its introduction in 1909, while the Edmonton Elks (formerly t... ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/9 "2016-08-11T19:48:03Z")
Floyd of Rosedale is my favorite. Minn-Iowa FB and it’s a trophy of a pig, both are big farm states for pigs. > **[Iowa–Minnesota football rivalry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa%E2%80%93Minnesota_football_rivalry)** > > The Iowa–Minnesota football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Iowa Hawkeyes football team of the University of Iowa and Minnesota Golden Gophers football team of the University of Minnesota. Floyd of Rosedale, introduced in 1935, is a bronze trophy in the shape of a pig which is awarded to the winner of the game. > The 1934 game between the Hawkeyes and Golden Gophers had been filled with controversy over the treatment of Iowa star halfback Ozzie Simmons. Simmons was also... ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/10 "2016-08-11T20:41:20Z")
Question about the Stanley Cup, do the teams get a replica to keep in their trophy rooms? ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/11 "2016-08-11T21:10:35Z")
I’d always have imagined it is the norm rather than the exception. Certainly in the UK there is a long history of individual sporting trophies being “held” but having to be given back. The Claret Jug, Wimbledon Trophies, Ashes urn, FA trophy are just a few that come immediately to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/12 "2016-08-11T23:44:32Z")
Golf does it. The US Open Trophy goes to the winner who returns it the following year. The Masters has a trophy (although the Green Jacket is the symbol for the winner) that the winner doesn’t even get to leave the course with. It is a replica of the Augusta clubhouse and engraved with the names of the winners and runners-up. It stays at the club, but the winner gets a replica. I don’t know about the PGA. Checked on the PGA. There is an original trophy that stays with the PGA. The winner gets a replica that has to be returned. He also gets a smaller replica to keep. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/13 "2016-08-12T06:50:06Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > This does appear to be the case. The Grey Cup has a rather colorful history, not unlike the Stanley Cup. Maybe it’s a Canadian thing? 😉 > > [Grey Cup - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Cup#Trophy) Theres actually 3 Stanley Cups. Theres the original Stanley Cup, a replica kept at the Hall of Fame, and a second one created in 1960ish. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/14 "2016-08-12T07:51:41Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > I’d always have imagined it is the norm rather than the exception. Certainly in the UK there is a long history of individual sporting trophies being “held” but having to be given back. > > The Claret Jug, Wimbledon Trophies, Ashes urn, FA trophy are just a few that come immediately to mind. The Ashes\* urn isn’t even given out anymore, it is deemed too fragile. It never leaves the museum at Lords cricket ground, so when the Aussies win it, they just take home a replica. (For foreigners listening, The Ashes is a c.130 year old cricket tournament/series between England and Australia, held every 18 months, involving 5 games that each last up to 5 days. The Ashes are the cremated remains of some cricket stumps that symbolise an article written in a newspaper back in the 1880s when Australia beat England, stating that ‘cricket had died, and the body cremated and taken back to Australia’. England then vowed to ‘regain those ashes’, and this crazy cricket series was born. The actual ashes reside in a teeny tiny urn, which makes for amusing [trophy lifting pictures](http://images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/63/photos/4000/19004.jpg). For these two teams, the Ashes is the most prestigious cricket trophy in the World. The rest of the World no doubt looks on in bewilderment). ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/15 "2016-08-12T08:02:30Z")
Hey, as family feuds go, it certainly is a lot more civilized than most 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/16 "2016-08-12T08:05:33Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Hey, as family feuds go, it certainly is a lot more civilized than most 🙂 The world would be a much more civilised place if we could resolve conflict with just a really long cricket match. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/17 "2016-08-12T08:58:58Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > The world would be a much more civilised place if we could resolve conflict with just a really long cricket match. quite, Afghanistan are taking to cricket so there is definitely a glimmer of hope there, I mean just look at Pak…er…Sri Lanka ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/18 "2016-08-12T11:04:49Z")
The Wimbledon trophies stay at Wimbledon; the winners get a miniature version (or so says Andy Murray). ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/19 "2016-08-14T16:42:59Z")
Piper family had our picture taken just yesterday with the Grey Cup. Not a replica; unless they make replicas with all the dints, nicks and dings reproduced. The CFL teams up every year with Purolator (a courier company) and the local food banks in each CFL city for a fund-raiser/food drive. Stand in line, make a cash or food donation, and you get your picture taken with the Cup. This was our 9th time: we have a picture every year with the three of us, starting when the Cub was 8 weeks old: I popped him into the Cup for the picture (to the horror of the nice man from the Canadian Hall of Fame with the white gloves who looks after the Cup on its travels), but we got an “Awwww - so cute” from the crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-leagues-where-one-championship-trophy-is-passed-from-champions/762447/20 "2016-08-16T08:40:08Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > The NHL passes the Stanley cup from team to team instead of making New ones. The [Sheffield Shield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Shield) is another. By coincidence, from what I can see, both first awarded within a week of each other in March 1893.