Corn Trophy 1995, 1996, 2002, 2003 The Corn Trophy is not an award given to the most outstanding amateur sportswriter of the year.  In fact, the Corn is to awards as gravel is to severe skin abrasions.  Conceived by then-evil-minded Hawkeyes fan, Brent Feller, who in 1995 never imagined the possibility that this traveling insult would ever find itself back in the possession of its inventor in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000, the trophy is presented and ever-so-reluctantly accepted by designated fans of the losing team in the aftermath of each Iowa-Wisconsin football game.