College Football - Big Ten Conference
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Big Ten History
The Big Ten conference is one of the oldest conferences in the country; it was first created in 1896 and it currently has a total of eleven members from the Mid Western area in the United States.
The conference fields a total of 25 sports along which we can mention; basketball, field hockey, track and field, soccer, tennis and football among others. A total of 12 sports are in the male category and 13 in the female category.
The following are the current active school members, all of them participating on football:
- University of Illinois
- Indiana University
- University of Iowa
- University of Michigan
- Michigan State University
- University of Minnesota
- Northwestern University
- Ohio State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Purdue University
- University of Wisconsin.
Throughout the conference’s history there are old football rivalries between some of the members, some of the most known ones are:
- Michigan State - Penn State (Land Grant Trophy)
- Illinois - Northwestern (Sweet Sioux Tomahawk)
- Illinois - Purdue (Purdue Cannon)
- Iowa - Wisconsin (Heartland Trophy).
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