Iron Skillet Origins

[lwjr]

On a different thread there was a posting about the new "Corn Trophy" the winner of Iowa State/Iowas receives. Can someone tell me how the "Iron Skillet" came about?

[ponyboy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for ... on_Skillet

[lwjr]

Sounds pretty good.

[diamond_tom]

The First Iron Skillet

Derrell Tipps, TCU’s student body president, presented it to his SMU counterpart, Bobby Harris. Tipps is quoted in the December 6, 1946, issue of the Skiff saying, “It was their idea, so we had to let them win the first one.”

http://www.magazine.tcu.edu/Magazine/Article.aspx?ArticleId=199