The trophy is, as the name implies, a large stein mug with the results of all the games between the two painted on.

[1][2][3] Idaho has dominated the overall series at 56–31–2 (.640),[7] which also includes two Division I-AA playoff wins at home in the 1980s.

While Idaho was in Division I-A (FBS), from 1996 through 2017, the teams met only five times, with Montana winning the last four.

[5][6][8] The schools are about two hundred miles (320 km) apart; Moscow and Missoula are on opposite sides of the lower Idaho panhandle, separated by the Bitterroot Mountains over Lolo Pass (U.S. Route 12).

Both were members of the old Pacific Coast Conference (the forerunner of today's Pac-12);[11] Montana departed after the 1949 season, and the PCC disbanded in the summer of 1959.