The largest trophy in the game.
Most awards hand a player a few pounds of crystal. The Joe Moore Award gives a unit a nearly 800-pound monument, because the recognition belongs to all five, and then some.
Seven feet. Eight hundred pounds.
The trophy is a monument, not a memento. At seven feet tall and nearly 800 pounds, it’s the largest trophy in college football, fittingly heavy for the only honor in the sport given to a five-man unit instead of a single name.
Each year it travels to the winning program, where it stands in the facility as a year-long reminder of what the offensive line built together. The next fall, it’s back up for grabs.
Cast by a Notre Dame legend.
The trophy was sculpted by Jerry McKenna, the artist behind Notre Dame’s iconic Four Horsemen and Lou Holtz statues. He powered through eye surgery mid-project to deliver the largest, fastest trophy in the foundry’s 80-year history. The full story lives in the Hall of Fame.
Names are etched in stone.
But teams are etched in gold.
“I am because of us.”
One trophy. Five linemen. One unit.
