Need help: Cardinal-Hawk hybrid trophy

guffus

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EDITED my original post for clarification.

I need to test everybody's memory

I have a very specific memory, but can't find any mention of it on the internet, of a trophy or something that was an ugly hybrid of a cardinal and a hawk merged together that was created in the 70's as part of the Iowa-Iowa State football rivalry. I always thought this was the original cy-hawk trophy but it must have been something different.

I also remember that this specific trophy, or whatever it was, didn't travel because Iowa won every game from 1983-1997 and this thing was forgotten about. It was not until 1998 when ISU won again that everybody found out this thing even existed. After that I don't know what happened to it.

How can I have such a specific memory of that awful cardinal-hawk hybrid trophy but the internet doesn't? I must have something confused but what?
 
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I need to test everybody's memory

I have a very specific memory, but can't find any mention of it on the internet, of a trophy that was an ugly hybrid of a cardinal and a hawk merged together to form the original cy hawk trophy.

I also remember that the trophy didn't travel because Iowa won every game from 1983-1997 and the trophy was forgotten about. It was not until 1998 when ISU won that everybody found out the original tophy even existed. Then at some point it got replaced with the trophy that lasted to 2010.

But everything on the internet says that trophy that lasted to 2010 was the original cy hawk trophy.

How can I have such a specific memory of that awful cardinal-hawk hybrid trophy but the internet doesn't? I must have something confused but what?
Cy-Hawk-Trophy-web.jpg
 
I decided to edit my original post. It's clear to me now that whatever I am thinking of, it was not the original cy-hawk trophy. This thing was an awful hybrid of a cardinal and a hawk that had something to do with the Iowa-Iowa State football rivalry.
 
I decided to edit my original post. It's clear to me now that whatever I am thinking of, it was not the original cy-hawk trophy. This thing was an awful hybrid of a cardinal and a hawk that had something to do with the Iowa-Iowa State football rivalry.
Sounds like the current trophy.
 
Sounds like the current trophy.

No, this thing was not a cardinal and a hawk side by side. Instead it was one giant bird that was supposed to be a hawk and a cardinal merged together. About the size of Floyd of Rosedale. It was really ugly. Looking for a picture of it.
 
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