The Victory Bell is the trophy that was awarded to the winner of the now defunct Pacific–San José State football rivalry game.
Due to the "private vs. public" institutional competitiveness and the close geographical proximity of the two schools, a natural "cross-town" rivalry was born.
Ahead of the 1949 game, members of Pacific's Alpha Kappa Phi fraternity commissioned a bell to serve as the trophy for the series.
In 1995, Pacific's Board of Regents voted to disband the football team to save money for the athletic program, which was reported to have gone over $400,000 in debt.
[2] After the dissolution of the series, the Victory Bell trophy was adopted and traded between the school's basketball teams, which happened until 2009.