UT vs Bowling Green rivalry

The Bowling Green State University Falcons have been The University of Toledo Rocket’s biggest rival dating back to 1919.  The outcome of the UT-BG game is never predictable due to the extreme ambition of both teams to defeat their rival.  In 1935, UT rocketed past the Falcons in a 63-0 blowout and the fans went crazy causing an outbreak of riots.  As a result, Bowling Green removed Toledo from their athletic play list until 1947. When the Rocket’s resumed play against Bowling Green, the Peace Pipe was instated as a basketball award.  There allegedly used to be a ceremony involving journalistic organizations from the University of Toledo and Bowling Green at halftime of one of the UT-BG basketball games every year.  Representatives from each school’s newspaper smoked a six-foot peace pipe, carved from wood with the winning school keeping the pipe until the renewal of the tradition the following basketball season.  Unfortunately in 1969, the tradition came to an abrupt end when an unidentified person stole the pipe from its resting-place in the Collegian office.  The thief was never caught, nor was the pipe ever recovered.  The tradition was reinstated in 1980 for football with a miniature peace pipe replica resting atop a trophy created by Frank Kralik, former UT football player, as an award for the winner of the annual gridiron battle between Toledo and Bowling Green.