The schools competed in all sports for decades as members of the Yankee Conference.

The yearly games ended after UConn left the A-10 to move to I-A football in 2000.

[2] The Ramnapping Trophy was formerly awarded to the winner of the annual football game between the two schools.

The name of the trophy originates from a 1930s-era tradition where a few UConn students would go to the URI campus and kidnap (or in this case, "Ramnap") the Rhode Island Ram mascot.

[5] The Ramnapping Trophy is on display to the public as part of the J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum on the UConn Main Campus in Storrs, Connecticut.