Bronze Boot

The Bronze Boot is awarded to each season's winner of the College football game between the Colorado State University and the University of Wyoming. The annual Wyoming-Colorado State football game has evolved into one of the most bitterly contested rivalries in college football. The teams have waged the "Border War" ninety-eight times since the schools began playing in 1899, playing every year except 1901, 1902, 1906, 1907, 1918, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1943, 1944, and 1945. In fact, this is one of the oldest interstate rivalries west of the Mississippi River, and the oldest west of the Missouri. The series is the oldest rivalry for both schools and the "Border War" has been played in three different centuries.

History of the trophy

In 1968, the ROTC detachments of the respective schools initiated the Bronze Boot, a traveling trophy awarded to the winner of the “Border War” each year. The boot was worn in the Vietnam War by Cpt. Jeff Romero, Sr., a Colorado State graduate and Army ROTC instructor at CSU between 1967 and 1969. Each year leading up to the Wyoming-Colorado State game, the game ball is carried in a running shuttle relay by the ROTC detachment of the visiting team down US 287 to the Wyoming-Colorado state border, where the home team's ROTC detachment receives it and runs the game ball to the stadium hosting the game. The trophy is guarded by the ROTC unit of the past year's winning school during the game.

The series is currently tied at 20-20. Colorado State leads the all-time series between the two, 54-40-5.

Trophy game results

"Wyoming victories are shaded ██ gold. Colorado State victories shaded in ██ green."

External links

* [http://wyomingathletics.collegesports.com/trads/bronzeboot.html University of Wyoming page about the trophy]
* [http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/mountainwest/wyoming/opponents_records.php?teamid=768 Wyoming-Colorado State series history]