King Spud Trophy

[SLCBengal]

RedditCFB tweeted about the King Spud Trophy, a basketball trophy awarded yearly to ISU or UI. RedditCFB suggests reinstating it for football...

[tweet]https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status/861313948305457152[/tweet]
https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status/861313948305457152

Anybody remember this? The Vandal blog has a link to a 1979 Spokesman Review article, where then ISU coach Lynn Archibald was quoted as not necessarily being a fan of the trophy itself...

...plus, the Bengals surrendered the "King Spud Trophy" with the loss at Idaho. That bothered the Bengals not at all, according to Archibald, who declared: "The trophy should go to the losing team, not the winning one. It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen. The only good thing that happened last weekend was losing it."