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Thursday, November 15, 2001
Contact: Peter Bailley
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Roger Taylor, interim president of Knox College (second from left), delivered ten frozen turkeys and several boxes of canned goods to Jan Sprout, assistant to the director of Jamieson Community Center in Monmouth (third from left) on Wednesday, Nov. 14.
Taylor was paying off a bet with Richard Giese, president of Monmouth College, on the outcome of the annual Bronze Turkey football game between the two colleges, which was won by Monmouth 36-3 last Saturday. Taylor and Giese agreed that the losing school would donate frozen turkeys to a food bank in the winner's community.
With Taylor and Sprout in the photo are Giese (fourth from left) and Knox College students Jenn Wreyford and Erika Kreutzberg, members of the Knox chapter of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, who helped Taylor deliver the turkeys. (300-dpi publication version of photo.)
Taylor and Giese agreed to the annual wager two days before this year's gridiron contest. True to form (see "History" below), one of the Knox students made a grab for the Bronze Turkey trophy that Giese brought to the event on Wednesday, but Geise skillfully protected the trophy.
"I'm a Knox graduate, and I know that a lot of people at both colleges look forward to the Bronze Turkey game," Taylor said on Thursday. "I am pleased that President Giese and I can draw attention to the needs in our communities, and can help meet those needs." In addition, Taylor said that Knox would collect canned goods at the game, and would give them to whichever food bank is the beneficiary of the wager.
This year's game was the 112th time that Knox and Monmouth have met on the gridiron since the first game in 1891. Only nine pairs of teams in the history of college football in the United States have played more than one hundred games against each other. They are the fourth pair of NCAA Div III colleges to have passed the century mark, both in the length of their rivalry and in number of games. With this year's win, Monmouth leads the series 52-50-10.
"The Monmouth-Knox rivalry is as legendary and competitive as any in college sports," Giese said on Thursday. "We at Monmouth have great respect for Knox College and Galesburg. We look forward to a very competitive and spirited game on Saturday which will reflect positively on both fine colleges and benefit our communities."
History of the Trophy
The original Bronze Turkey Trophy was created in 1928 by the Galesburg Register-Mail and the Monmouth Review Atlas newspapers. The trophy has been "stolen" and recovered a number of times in its history and, after an extended disappearance in the 1980's, the Register-Mail provided a replacement trophy. The original trophy was later recovered, and the winning school now receives both trophies.
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 47 states and 42 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Related Pages
More about the Bronze Turkey Rivalry
Box score for this year's game
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