The Great Divide Trophy

The trophy on the panel began with fans, not the schools. Norm Jones, a Grizzlies fan, and about twenty others commissioned the Montana wildlife artist Dave Samuelson once the universities had approved, and Samuelson painted Bear Mountain, also called Trophy Rock, then modeled the bronze on it, hiding a grizzly and a bobcat among the rocks reaching for the football. It stands about three feet tall and weighs 306 pounds. Montana won it first, in 2001, and players rubbing it for luck have worn its surface since.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mai Wah Museum — 13 mi
  Two brick buildings left from Butte's Chinatown, and a store whose goods came home after seventy years away.
• Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine Memorial — 13 mi
  An overlook above the shaft where the 1917 fire began, and the letters some of the trapped men wrote while they waited.

More markers nearby

• Meaderville — 9.3 mi
• Butte — 9.3 mi
• The Boulder Batholith and the Richest Hill on Earth — 9.3 mi
• A New World: Tertiary Mammals — 10 mi