Black Hills Brawl


The Black Hills Brawl is an annual football game between Black Hills State University and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Also known as The Battle for the Homestake Trophy or rarely called the West River Rivalry, the winner of the game receives the Homestake Trophy. The current venues the game is played in are Lyle Hare Stadium since 1960 and O'Harra Stadium since 1938. First played in 1895 and played 134 times, the Black Hills Brawl is the most played in NCAA Division II and tied for the oldest rivalry in DII ; it is the 4th most played rivalry nationwide in any division.

First Game

The first meeting in November 28, 1895 was between SDSM&T and a now-defunct and unrelated Methodist college in Hot Springs known as Black Hills College, after BHSU turned Black Hills College down. Despite this, both current schools generally include this game in the rivalry's chronology, but do not count it against their records; the first official meeting did not come until 1900.

Game results

Note: SDSM&T was known at the Dakota School of Mines until 1889, when it became the South Dakota School of Mines; it became SDSM&T in 1943. BHSU was known as Spearfish Normal until 1941, when it became the Black Hills Teachers College; it would be renamed Black Hills State College in 1964 and BHSU in 1989.