[1] No games have been played since 2011, Truman having jumped to the Great Lakes Valley Conference in 2012.

The teams, which are founding members of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association have been playing each other since 1908.

[2] In 1930 Northwest President Uel W. Lamkin proposed the two schools play each other on Veterans Day.

The award would be a polished hickory stick which had originally come from the Harrison County, Missouri farm where Northeast president Eugene Fair was born.

Harrison County is in the district where students were supposed to go Northwest instead of Northeast.