The ball sits in a wooden platform and the scores of each game are engraved on the base of the trophy.

Three times within the first four years of the rivalry's existence, one of the teams went on to reach the NCAA Division I Football Championship.

Delaware would later reach the FCS National Championship game before falling to the Appalachian State Mountaineers 49–21.

The 2010 meeting marked the first time the game had gone into overtime, with the Wildcats securing another upset win over the #1-ranked Delaware team on a recovered fumble.

In 2011, the Battle of the Blue was the first American football game to be played at the venue now known as Subaru Park in Chester, Pennsylvania, in which Delaware beat Villanova to earn the trophy for the first time.