I was reading about the 11/24/35 Lions-Bears game, and read that they would be playing for the Red Grange Trophy, which was I am guessing a trophy the Bears and Lions fought over. I did find a picture of Grange with the trophy as somebody was selling the picture on the Ebay:
https://ssli.ebayimg.com/images/a/(KGrHqR,!ogE-0e9q29VBQDDC10fhg~~/s-l640.jpg
The 10/23/35 Detroit Free Press announces the trophy was struck as the perpetual stake in the games between the Lions and Bears and has a bear and lion trying to climb on top of a globe.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/979395 ... rs%2Blions
I had never heard of two NFL teams using a trophy as a stake in games, as college rivalry games often do. I seriously doubt the two teams still swap the trophy back and forth, I'm curious when it ended. I'm also curious about the current whereabouts of the trophy.
Has anybody ever heard of this trophy?
Red Grange Trophy
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Rupert Patrick
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Red Grange Trophy
"Every time you lose, you die a little bit. You die inside. Not all your organs, maybe just your liver." - George Allen
Re: Red Grange Trophy
Great information - I don't think I've ever read about a trophy for a regular season rivalry before.
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Rupert Patrick
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Re: Red Grange Trophy
https://www.newspapers.com/image/97575004/
The 11/24/35 Detroit Free Press pg 35 says, "This year the Lions and Bears are playing for the Red Grange Trophy, emblematic of supremacy between the two teams." Needless to say, they tied 20-20.
The 11/24/35 Detroit Free Press pg 35 says, "This year the Lions and Bears are playing for the Red Grange Trophy, emblematic of supremacy between the two teams." Needless to say, they tied 20-20.
"Every time you lose, you die a little bit. You die inside. Not all your organs, maybe just your liver." - George Allen