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In its initial years, the AP Poll did not award a trophy. [9] The preeminent national championship trophy of the era was the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy awarded by the Dickinson System. [9] Following the retirement of Frank G. Dickinson and his rating system in 1940, Minnesota tasked the AP Poll with awarding the new trophy it put into play.
The AP national championship trophy was presented to USC on December 31, the day before the Rose Bowl was played. No post-bowl polls were taken by the AP/UPI. The FWAA awarded the Grantland Rice Award to "the Trojans, victors in the Rose Bowl and undefeated and untied in 10 season games" post-bowl on January 7 .
The Veteran Athletes of Philadelphia put up the Bonniwell Trophy for the national championship in 1919 [19] under the stipulation that it was only "to be awarded in such years as produces a team whose standing is so preeminent as to make its selection as champion of America beyond dispute." Notre Dame was the first to be awarded the trophy, in ...
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Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy seasons (86 P) Pages in category "College football championship trophies" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
The "writers' poll" by Associated Press (AP) was the most popular, followed by the "coaches' poll" by United Press International (UPI). In 1967, both AP and UPI issued their final polls at the close of the regular season, but before teams competed in bowl games. The Associated Press presented the "AP Trophy" to the winner.
The official name is the American Football Coaches Association National Championship Trophy; it was given this permanent name by the association in 2006. In 2009, the AFCA allowed universities to buy replica trophies for any year a school finished first in the Coaches Poll , from the 1950 to 1985 seasons, prior to the trophy's creation in 1986.
An explanation for the mathematical calculations was usually given as part of the story of the season ending rankings. In 1927, the AP story [citation needed] about the "national football championship" for that year noted that "Scores of 96 football teams were compiled by Dr. Dickinson in seven football conferences, including an Eastern group of 25 leading teams regarded for convenience as a ...