- Vanderbilt Trophy
The Vanderbilt Knockout Teams national bridge championship is held at the spring
American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC).The Vanderbilt is a knock-out team event. The event typically last 7 days with each day being a round consisting of two sessions of 32 boards. The event is open and seeded.
History
The premier event of the Spring North American Championships is the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams. The history of the prestigious contest stretches back to 1928 when the man who invented contract bridge, Harold S. Vanderbilt, put the trophy bearing his name into play. The winners list is a who’s who of bridge, a parade of the titans of the game.
The Vanderbilt Trophy for the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams was donated in 1928 by Harold S. Vanderbilt, who won the event in 1932 and 1940.
The Vanderbilt was contested annually in New York --- as a separate championship --- until 1958 when it became part of the Spring North American Championships.
Vanderbilt winners receive replicas of the trophy --- a practice initiated by Vanderbilt from the first running of the event and perpetuated by a $100,000 trust fund administered by ACBL under the terms of Vanderbilt’s will.
On display at ACBL Headquarters in Memphis are replicas donated by the families of Caroline Taylor, who won the Vanderbilt in 1928, and
Helen Sobel Smith , a Vanderbilt winner in 1944 and 1945.Winners
ources
List of previous winners, Page 8Citation
title = Daily Bulletin
journal =
volume = 51-3
issue = 4
date = Sunday, March 9, 2008
year = 2008
url = http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2008/01/bulletins/db3.pdfExternal links
* [http://www.acbl.org/ ACBL official website]
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