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1936 Isle of Man TT

Wal Handley crashes a Riley belonging to Freddie Dixon at Brooklands during the British Empire Trophy and breaks an arm.

1947 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League season

The Racine Belles won the tournament and received a commemorative trophy from Esther Williams, American competitive swimmer and MGM movie star.

1964 News of the World Trophy

The 1st News of the World Trophy, previously known as the Glover Trophy, was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 30 March 1964 at Goodwood Circuit, England.

1976 FA Cup Final

As extra time loomed, Southampton's Bobby Stokes received Jim McCalliog's pass and slotted the ball across Stepney and into the far corner to score a late winner and with it his side's first major trophy.

2009 IFA Shield

Most of the teams came from the I-League 1 & 2, with AS Douanes (Dakar) invited from Senegal and Tata Football Academy qualifying by winning the Prodyut Dutta Memorial Trophy.

2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team

The schools, located 82 miles apart, played 52 times between 1905 and 2004 in "The Battle for the Bell," with the trophy symbolizing the Ohio River separating Ohio and West Virginia.

2010–11 A.F.C. Bournemouth season

During the 2010–11 English football season, Bournemouth will participate in League One, the Johnstones Paint Trophy, the FA Cup, and the Football League Cup.

85th Scripps National Spelling Bee

Nandipati received a $30,000 cash prize, an engraved trophy from the E. W. Scripps Company, a $2,500 savings bond from Merriam-Webster, a $5,000 scholarship from the Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation, $2,600 in reference works from Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., and an online language course and Barnes & Noble Nook from Middlebury Interactive Languages.

Abel Lafleur

Abel Lafleur (1875 – 1953) was a French sculptor who designed and made the FIFA World Cup trophy, first simply called 'Coupe du Monde', later renamed the Jules Rimet Trophy.

Alamogordo Museum of History

It holds a bison trophy head, a collection of pottery from the La Luz Pottery Factory, and artifacts from prehistoric Native American tribes that were found in caves above Alamogordo.

Albert Scanlon

On 13 May 2007, Scanlon presented the Premier League trophy to Manchester United along with former team-mate Bill Foulkes.

Armando Colaco

Switching his base from Dempo to Churchill in the 90s, Armando had announced his arrival as a seasoned coach with three Goa Football League titles and an NFL runner-up trophy with Churchill Brothers and also a foray into the AFC Cup.

Ashbourne Cup

In 1915 she persuaded her friend, Irish language activist William Gibson, (Liam Mac Giolla Bhríde (1868–1942), second Lord Ashbourne, to donate a trophy for the camogie intervarsity competition.

Battle of Basantar

The Pakistan Patton tank, now an attraction for visitors to the Tank Bund Road in the South Indian city of Hyderabad, is a War Trophy given to the 54th Infantry Division, and is one that the Indian Army had disabled during the Battle of Basantar in Pakistan, between December 15-17, 1971.

Big Mouth Billy Bass

Designed by Gemmy Industries, it turns its head towards a person, facing them, and then wiggles its tail on its trophy plaque and sings kitschy cover songs, such as "Don't Worry, Be Happy", and "Take Me To The River" by Al Green.

Cameron King

In December 2009 he won the Val Lembit Memorial Trophy for the most outstanding sportsman in NSW, awarded by the Combined High Schools, joining previous winners such as olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe and first grade rugby league player Blake Green.

Carrigeen

Bob O'Keeffe, after whom the magnificent Lenster senior hurling trophy is named, was a native of Glengrant, Mooncoin.

Chad Ragland

Most recently, Chad competed in the SCORE International Laughlin Desert Challenge in 2010 and The Best in the Desert Parker 425 with past SCORE Trophy Truck Champion, BJ Baldwin for Baldwin Motorsports.

Colin Forsyth

Trophy final at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington, and in the 6-0 victory over Widnes in the 1979–80 John Player Trophy final at Station Road, Swinton.

Commonwealth Bank Trophy

The Trophy was an eight-team, single division round-robin competition, based around a fourteen week season starting in May and ending in August.

Coupe des Mousquetaires

La Coupe des Mousquetaires (English: The Musketeers' Trophy) is the trophy awarded to the winner of the Men's Singles competition at the French Open.

Deans Trophy

Lelean Memorial School (LMS), has won the trophy 12 times and drawn five times.

Doriva

On 29 February 2004 Doriva started as Middlesbrough won their first major trophy, the 2004 Football League Cup Final, with a 2-1 win over Bolton Wanderers in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Ecurie Bonnier

The Lola proved more competitive, however, and Bonnier took top ten places at two of the four World Sportscar Championship (WSC) races that he contested in 1968, finished in second in the Players Trophy race at Silverstone, and won both the Anderstorp and Norisring 200 km races.

Hawkeye Marching Band

After the 1990 season, the band was awarded the prestigious John Philip Sousa Foundation Sudler Trophy.

Iowa–Iowa State football rivalry

Conceived and created as a traveling trophy by the Greater Des Moines Athletic Club in 1976, the trophy was first presented to the winner by Iowa Governor Robert D. Ray in 1977.

James Gatschene Memorial Trophy

The trophy was first presented at the close of the 1946-1947 season by workers of the Chrysler factory in Windsor, Ontario, as a memorial to Gatschene, a former Chrysler employee and hockey star in the Windsor-Detroit area.

Jubileumspokalen

Jubileumspokalen (literally: The Jubilee Trophy) or Solvallas Jubileumspokal is an annual Group One harness event for trotters that is held at Solvalla in Stockholm, Sweden.

Kazmaier

Dick Kazmaier, American football player and winner of the 1951 Heisman Trophy

Key Art Awards

In 2011, a new award trophy was created in the form of moveable golden searchlight by New York firm Society Awards.

Magnus Cup

The Magnus Cup is the trophy presented to the winner of the Ligue Magnus (Magnus League) playoffs, and is named after Louis Magnus, first president of the International Ice Hockey Federation.

Michael J. Estocin

The award, originally sponsored by the McDonnell Douglas corporation, is a trophy with a polished black stone base and an 18 inch (46 cm) stainless steel ribbon topped with a stylized model of a strike fighter aircraft.

Mission Hill Winery

The first Chardonnay made by John Simes, who had just joined the winery, in the 1992 vintage won the trophy for "Best Chardonnay" at the 1994 International Wine and Spirit Competition, becoming the first Okanagan winery to receive significant overseas recognition.

Monster Pig

Later news reports brought forward allegations that the entire story was the result of a canned hunt scheme cooked up by Eddy Borden, the owner of Lost Creek Plantation, and Keith O'Neal of Southeastern Trophy Hunters, to build up business for the then four-months-old Lost Creek hunting plantation, trying to create their own news event along the lines of the 2004 “Hogzilla” event.

Neil Simpson

In 1982–83, he played in every one of the matches of the Dons’ 1983 European Cup Winners Cup campaign, scoring a goal in the 3–2 victory over FC Bayern Munich in the second leg of the quarter-finals and becoming one of the “Gothenburg Greats” who lifted the trophy after beating Real Madrid in the 1983 Final.

Polocrosse

In 1962 Walcha became the first club team to win the Lennon trophy at the Australian Red Cross championships at Maitland when the four Goodwin brothers, Paul, Maurice, Noel and Brian together with Bob Gill and John Nixon played as the North New England No 1 team.

Prayikkara

Mother Teresa Trophy Boat Race is held along the stretch on the River Achankovil

Reginald D. Hunter

Likewise his tour with Steve Hughes, called Trophy Nigga, played 55 venues around the UK, yet not all the venues would use the tour title.

Sarath Jayawardene

He played for a Malaysian Cricket Association Invitation XI against England A in February 2004, also playing in the Stan Nagaiah Trophy for a second time the same month.

Snooky Serna

More recently, she's been in various top-rating soap operas in rival stations GMA Network and ABS-CBN, notably Marina, Captain Barbell and Habang Kapiling Ka where she again was awarded a best actress trophy for TV drama performance from PMPC in 2003.

Stellar Stone

Stellar Stone developed a total of eight known games—three drag racing games (Taxi Racer, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!), a puzzle game (Total Mahjongg and Shanghai), a hunting game (Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt), a pinball game (Total Pinball), and two real-time strategy games based on the American Civil War (Gettysburg: Civil War Battles and Ultimate Civil War Battles: Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant).

Svein Fjælberg

He was still with the club when they were promoted to the First Division again in 1988, and he lifted the trophy when the club won the Norwegian Cup in 1989 by beating Molde in the final.

TOCA

Teams with S2000 cars will be eligible for the newly introduced S2000 trophy named after the winner of the inaugural British Saloon Car Championship in 1958, Jack Sears, known as the Jack Sears Trophy, of which Sears himself will award to the top S2000 finisher of the year at the final round based on the amount of S2000 wins (known as 'cups') over the season.

Tony Windless

The following season, which saw another him elected to another All-Star game appearance, Tony helped Towers to another Trophy win and a victorious Playoff run, beating fierce rivals Greater London Leopards 89-88 in an intense Wembley final.

Turkish Grand Prix

As part of the podium ceremony after the 2006 race, the winner's trophy was presented by Mehmet Ali Talat, who was introduced to television viewers via the captions as the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a state which is recognised only by Turkey.

Tyrone Crystal

Since 2005, Tyrone Crystal has manufactured the trophy for the Canadian Grand Prix.

United States Golf Association

On December 22, 1894, the Amateur Golf Association of the United States was officially formed, and was shortly thereafter renamed the "United States Golf Association." Theodore Havemeyer was the first president, and the U.S. Amateur trophy is named in his honor.

Valdivia International Film Festival

From that point the characteristic trophy award emerged: the Pudú (The Pudú is a small kind of deer, typical of southern Chile).

Wheeler-Schebler Carburetor Company

To this day, the trophy awarded annually to the winner of the Indianapolis 500 is known as the Borg-Warner Trophy.

Woodlawn trophy

Considered one of the most valuable trophies in sports, the trophy has its roots at the Woodlawn Race Course, a 19th century race track near Louisville, Kentucky.


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