The Apple Cup is the name of the yearly intrastate competition football match-up played by Pac Ten Meeting rivals the College of Washington Huskies and the Washington State College Cougars. These two schools have played each other multiple times throughout the entire existence of the Apple Cup contention. Each season the victor of this eagerly awaited coordinate will return home with the sought after Apple Cup prize, a voyaging prize that remaining parts with whichever school won the latest challenge.
The College of Washington is situated in Seattle, Washington (the biggest city in the state). Roughly 285 miles east of Seattle is the city of Pullman, Washington where the principal grounds of the Washington State College Cougars is found. The particular area of the yearly Apple Cup game switches back and forth between Martin Arena (limit 35,117) in Pullman and Imposing Arena (limit 72,500) in Seattle. It takes understudies around four and a half hours to make the drive from one grounds to the next for away football match-ups.
The yearly game between the two biggest colleges in occer-no1 the state happens on the Saturday following the Thanksgiving occasion and denotes the last round of the normal season. Preceding the 2007 season the game had generally been played the Saturday prior to Thanksgiving however because of a protracting of the school football timetable to 12 games the game Apple Cup game has as of late been pushed back to the end of the week subsequent to Thanksgiving to save its place as the last ordinary season game.
The narrative of how the title Apple Cup came to be related with this competition is entirely short. For a large part of the historical backdrop of this contention that traces all the way back to November of 1900 the instate rivals named this the Lead representative’s Prize game however that changed in 1962. Starting with the 1962 coordinate the name of the yearly gathering between the two colleges was transformed from the Lead representative’s Prize to the Apple Cup in acknowledgment of the apple orchids and apples that the province of Washington is so notable for.
Albeit the name change formally happened in 1962 when school football students of history examine the record these two schools have against each other in the Apple Cup they for the most part count wins and misfortunes as far as possible back to the main gathering on November 30, 1900 that finished in a 5-5 tie (an extremely unusual last score by present day guidelines). Over the 102 gatherings these projects have had on the network iron the College of Washington drives the general series by a count of 65-31-6.