COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) - The Ohio State University Buckeyes and the University of Illinois Fighting Illini take the field Saturday in a battle for a wooden turtle, 100 years after the tradition began. One of the oldest traveling trophies in the Big Ten Conference, Illibuck, will be up for grabs.

NBC4's Kyle Beachy set out on a mission to find out more about this elusive wooden turtle. The Ohio State University Archives on Kenny Road was a great place to start.

The Illibuck trophy began in 1925 when a 'Bucket and Dipper', one of the Junior Honorary Societies at Ohio State, agreed with Sachem Junior Honorary Society to a rivalry trophy to be passed between their organizations to the school that was victorious on the football field.

"It started as a live turtle, and now it's a wooden turtle

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