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18-562: According to the September 17, 1920, founding meeting minutes of the NFL–APFA, the trophy was a silver loving cup , donated to the Association by a "Mr. Marshall". It was then to be presented to the team "awarded championship by the Association". This wording established the precedent for the 1920 season of awarding the title by a vote of the league's managers, rather than who finished at the top of

36-559: A self-dealing conflict of interest in presiding over the decision to give the championship to his own team. Even though the Pros were given the trophy in 1920, the league lost track of the event and for a long time published in its own record books that the 1920 championship was undecided. Neither the All-Americans nor the Staleys, who disputed the 1921 title , inquired of the trophy's whereabouts

54-404: Is a formal large meal where a number of people consume food together. Banquets are traditionally held to enhance the prestige of a host, or reinforce social bonds among joint contributors. Modern examples of these purposes include a charitable gathering, a ceremony, or a celebration . They often involve speeches in honor of the topic or guest of honour. The older English term for a lavish meal

72-651: The Last Supper , the Manchu Han Imperial Feast , and mead halls . A luau is one variety of traditional banquet originally used in Hawaii. Many cultures have developed structures for banquets. In the European Middle Ages , comprehensive ritualised elements were involved in a traditional three-course menu, having up to 25 dishes in each course (this structure persisted into the 19th century). The structure

90-548: The Brunswick-Balke-Collender trophy remains a mysterious object. The only known visual depiction of the trophy is a picture that appeared in two newspapers from the era. Starting with the 1934 Championship game, 13 years after the original was awarded, a replacement trophy was finally commissioned, and the league's championship team from that season onward received the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy . The trophy

108-593: The Celtic quaich and the French coupe de mariage . The Russian bratina ("fraternity cup" or "brotherhood cup") is a wine bowl also used for banquets. It is considered the "Russian version of the loving cup". It is often without handles. This article about an item of drinkware or tool used in preparation or serving of drink is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Banquet A banquet ( / ˈ b æ ŋ k w ɪ t / ; French: [bɑ̃kɛ] )

126-650: The Vikings (or the Baltimore Colts, who had won the NFL title in 1968) had ever won the trophy. The Vikings did win a trophy for their 1969 championship, but surviving evidence released in 2020 suggests it was yet another trophy. Since 1970, the league has issued the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the winners of the league's title; unlike its two predecessors, a new one is produced each year. (The Lombardi Trophy dates to 1967 and

144-410: The anatomy of the stomach and in the digestive mechanism. When lying on the left, the food has room to expand because the curvature of the stomach is enhanced in that position. Contemporary banquets serve many new purposes in addition to their traditional purposes. These can include anything from during workplace training sessions and formal business dinners to birthday parties and social gatherings. It

162-501: The first Super Bowl , and was retained when the NFL and the American Football League merged ). Loving cup A loving cup is a large cup with two arching handles. It can describe a shared drinking container traditionally used at weddings and banquets , often made of silver. Loving cups are also given as trophies to winners of games or competitions. Loving cups found in several European cultures, including

180-481: The next year (the All-Americans commissioned their own trophies, small gold footballs, before the dispute was ruled in the Staleys' favor). It took until the 1970s for the NFL to rediscover its early vote on awarding the Akron Pros the 1920 championship. What happened to the cup afterwards remains a mystery. The minutes of APFA and NFL meetings never mention it again. Aside from its description as "a silver loving cup ",

198-458: The roof or in the grounds of large houses, were built for them. Such meals are also called a "sugar collation". Banquets feature luxury foods, often including animal meat. Feasts can be divided into two fundamental types: solidarity (or alliance, or empowering) and promotional (or aggrandisive, competitive, or diacritical). Solidarity feasts are a joint effort in which families or communities bring equivalent contributions together to reinforce

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216-560: The social ties of all concerned. Promotional feasts are intended to enhance the social status of the host, who provides the food in order to create obligations to themselves among the guests. Communal feasting is evidenced from the early Neolithic in Britain. In Ancient Greece , symposia formed a routine part of life, involving the celebratory drinking of wine, conversation and performances of poetry and music. Notable historical and legendary examples of banquets include Belshazzar's Feast ,

234-507: The standings. The minutes also state that "any team winning the cup three times should be adjudged the owner [of the trophy]". The motion to include the cup as the Association's trophy was moved and seconded and a vote of thanks was extended by the secretary to "Mr. Marshall". The Akron Pros were awarded the 1920 APFA Championship on April 30, 1921, during an association meeting at the Portage Hotel after posting an 8–0–3 record. The trophy

252-453: Was feast , and "banquet" originally meant a specific and different kind of meal, often following a feast, but in a different room or even building, which concentrated on sweet foods of various kinds . These became highly fashionable as sugar became much more common in Europe at the start of the 16th century. It was a grand form of the dessert course, and special banqueting houses , often on

270-615: Was awarded to the team owners, Art Ranney and Frank Nied , by former Penn State star Timmy Bryant. However, disputes arose from the Buffalo All-Americans and the Decatur Staleys (renamed the Chicago Bears in 1922), who had been tied, but not beaten, by the Pros that year, and from allegations that Ranney, who was presiding over the meeting because of the absences of President Jim Thorpe and Vice President Stan Cofall , had

288-568: Was later altered to two courses, with the pre-existing third course changed to the serving of fruit and nuts. Banqueting rooms varied greatly with location, but tended to be on an intimate scale, either in a garden room, banquet hall or inside such as the small banqueting turrets in Longleat House . Art historians have often noted that banqueters on iconographic records of ancient Mediterranean societies almost always appear to be lying down on their left sides. One possible explanation could lie in

306-621: Was long thought to have been awarded last to the Minnesota Vikings in 1969. Afterwards the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy went missing, just like its predecessor nearly 50 years earlier. The original Ed Thorp trophy was eventually found in the possession of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame , and also includes the team names of all of the winners through the 1967 Packers (who won Super Bowl II ), raising doubts as to whether

324-400: Was named after Ed Thorp, a noted referee, rules expert, and sporting goods dealer. Thorp died in 1934, and a large, traveling trophy was made that year, passed along from champion to champion each season with each championship team's name inscribed on it (just like its predecessor). Teams would also receive a replica trophy that would not have only the name of that team engraved on it. The trophy

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