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Victory Bell Trophy - Mizzou Tigers and University of Nebraska Cornhuskers Rivalry Football Game
by Sam Noffs
Many followers of college football do not realize that the football rivalry game played between the University of Missouri (Mizzou for short) Tigers and the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers for the Victory Bell trophy is the second oldest rivalry within the Big 12 Conference. The University of Missouri and the University of Kansas rivalry predates the Cornhuskers and Tigers rivalry by one year and five days. In addition to being the second oldest rivalry in their conference this is actually the third oldest rivalry west of Mississippi River even though most casual football fans that are not from the area do not normally associate these two programs as rivals.
The Victory Bell is the name of the trophy awarded to the annual victor of this game. The idea for the bell trophy was declared by former University of Missouri athletic director Chester Brewer in 1926. The Victory Bell trophy is a traveling trophy which means that the winning program gets to keep the trophy until it is played for again in the subsequent game held the following season. The scores from every game since 1926 have been engraved on the Victory Bell.
The first meeting between these two programs that are 320 miles apart occurred way back on November 5, 1892. The game was played in Omaha, Nebraska (the University of Nebraska is based in Lincoln, NE) and won by the Cornhuskers. The ongoing series has now reached a total of 103 games through 2009 and the Cornhuskers have a commanding lead over the Mizzou Tigers with a record in this rivalry game of 64-36-3.
For much of the series history the overall standings were very close. Up until 1978 the University of Nebraska held a narrow lead by a margin of only five games before racking off wins during each of the next twenty four contests. On October 11, 2003 at a home game in Columbia, MO the Mizzou football program captured its first win against in this lopsided rivalry in 25 years. This particular upset came with the Cornhuskers entering the game ranked number 10 in the country while the Missouri Tigers were unranked going into the contest.
Not surprisingly Missouri fans rushed the field, the goal posts were torn down, and students celebrated late into the night. For almost all of the exuberant students at the Columbia campus the October, 2003 game was the first win for the Tigers in this rivalry in their lifetimes. Nearly five years later on October 4, 2008 Mizzou would get its first win in Lincoln, NE in 30 years. Prior to this victory the last Tigers win in Lincoln had occurred when NFL Hall of Famer Kellen Winslow Senior was playing for the Missouri Tigers. So much time had passed that the son of Kellen Winslow (Kellen Winslow Junior) was already playing in the NFL.
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When the late September weather is warm enough Nebraska and Missouri fans often get together days before the Victory Bell game on area golf courses. With fans as down to earth as the Cornhuskers fans it's par for the course for one golfer to have a University of Nebraska golf bag while his partner has a Mizzou golf bag. Throughout the football dominant eras of the Cornhuskers dynasty program the fans have always exemplified first rate sportsmanship.
Victory Homage
A video to music I created for the movie Victory.
To feel normal during WWII, a German major challenges a British officer to a "friendly" football (soccer) match. It, of course, becomes everything but friendly. Starring Pele, Stallone, Caine.
Edited with Adobe Premiere Pro.
Music: Speed Me Towards Death: Rob Dougan
L' Arena: Ennio Morricone.
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