Syracuse head coach Doug Marrone accepts the Pinstripe Bowl trophy at a ceremony after Syracuse beat Kansas State.

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New York – It looks like the “Schwartzwalder” won’t be with the Syracuse University football team when it takes on West Virginia in the third New Era Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium.

When a question was posed today about the traveling award named after SU coaching icon Ben Schwartzwalder, who was a graduate of West Virginia, Orange head coach Doug Marrone said the only trophy the teams will vie for Dec. 29 is the one named after the late Yankees’ owner George M. Steinbrenner.

“To the right of us is the Steinbrenner Trophy,” Marrone said during a news conference to promote the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium. “That’s why we’re here. I think it’s very important that we all understand that.”

The feeling was that bringing an outside trophy to the bowl game might be seen as disrespectful to the organizers.

The Pinstripe Bowl was created by the New York Yankees organization in 2010, and the Steinbrenner Trophy is presented to the game’s winner. SU won it in 2010, and Rutgers took it home last year.

The Schwartzwalder trophy was created in 1993 to be awarded to the winner of the SU-WVU game, which up until this season was an annual event because both teams belonged to the Big East Conference.

WVU jumped to the Big 12 this season, and SU will head to the Atlantic Coast Conference next year.

The trophy honoring Schwartzwalder has been with the Orange since 2010, when SU took it back after eight straight losses with a 19-14 win in Morgantown, W.Va. SU kept the trophy last year when it spanked the Mountaineers, 49-23, in the Carrier Dome.

WVU has won 11 of 19 matchups with SU since the trophy was created.

Schwartzwalder was 153-91-3 in 25 seasons of guiding SU – including the 1959 national championship team.