Porter Cup (trophy)

{{Short description|College football award}}

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| description = "Best all-around athlete" at a major university.

| presenter = Porter Clothing Company

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| location = Southern United States

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The Porter Cup was a sterling silver loving cup trophy once awarded by the Porter Clothing Company to the best all-around athlete from a major southern university, including the University of Alabama, Birmingham-Southern College,{{cite web|url=http://www.bscsports.net/information/history|title=Birmingham-Southern Athletic History}} Tulane and Tennessee's three major universities: Vanderbilt, Sewanee and Tennessee.{{cite journal|page=286|url=https://www.motardsdu11septembre.be.tf/stream/sigmaphiepsilonj224sigm#page/286/mode/2up/search/porter|journal=Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal|year=1925|title=Sig Epics}}{{cite news|newspaper=Atlanta Constitution|title=Kuhn Given Porter Cup|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1997560/the_atlanta_constitution/|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=March 20, 2015|date=June 1, 1923|page=10}} {{Open access}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h83OAAAAMAAJ|title=Register|last=University|first=Tennessee|date=January 1, 1921|language=en}} The three in Tennessee were given by Alf Porter, and Alabama's was given by Henry Porter Loving.{{cite web|url=http://grfx.cstv.com/schools/alab/graphics/docs/20-m-footbl-recaps.pdf |title=Recap |website=grfx.cstv.com |format=PDF}} Alabama's is thus also called the "Porter Loving Cup".