A 'wooden spoon' is a mock or real award, usually given to an individual or team which has come last in a competition, but sometimes also to runners-up. Examples range from the academic to sporting and more frivolous events.

The academic wooden spoon at the University of Cambridge

The wooden spoon was originally associated with the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge, and was a kind of booby prize awarded by the students to the person who achieved the lowest exam marks, but still earned a third-class degree. In contrast, the highest-scoring student was named the senior wrangler. The Cambridge Mathematical Tripos was a distinctive written examination of undergraduate students of the University of Cambridge. ... The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... A booby prize is a joke prize, usually given in recognition of a terrible performance or a last-place finish. ... The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading scheme for undergraduate degrees (bachelors degrees and some masters degrees) in the United Kingdom. ... At the University of Cambridge in England, a wrangler is a student who has completed the third year (called Part II) of the mathematical tripos with first-class honours. ...

The custom dates back at least to the early 19th century, if not before, and continued until 1909. From 1910 onwards the results have been given in alphabetical rather than score order, and so it is now impossible to tell who has come last, unless there is only one person in the lowest class.

There were actual wooden spoons which became increasingly large, and in latter years measured up to 1.5 metres long. By tradition they were dangled in a teasing way from the upstairs balcony in the Senate House in front of the lowest-ranked recipient when he came before the Vice Chancellor to receive his degree. The Senate House of the University of Cambridge in the centre of the city is used mainly for degree ceremonies and formerly for meetings of the Council of the Senate. ... // Universities A Vice-Chancellor (commonly called the VC) of a university in the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries, and some universities in Hong Kong, is the de facto head of the university. ...

The last wooden spoon

The last wooden spoon was awarded to Cuthbert Lempriere Holthouse, an oarsman of the Lady Margaret Boat Club of St. John's College, Cambridge in 1909 at the graduation ceremony in the University's Senate House. The handle is shaped like an oar and inscribed with an epigram in Greek which may be translated as follows: Full name The College of Saint John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge Motto - Named after The Hospital of Saint John the Evangelist, Cambridge, named after John the Evangelist Previous names - Established 1511 Sister College Balliol College Master Prof. ...

In Honours Mathematical

This is the very last of all

The Wooden Spoons which you see here

O you who see it, shed a tear

Or in more faithful prose: "This wooden object is the last souvenir of the competitive examinations in mathematics. Look upon it, and weep."

This magnificent spoon [1] is now in the possession of St. John's College, and another one is kept at the Selwyn College, Cambridge library. Full name Selwyn College Motto ΑΝΔΡΙΖΕΣΘΕ quit ye like men Named after George Augustus Selwyn Previous names - Established 1882 Sister College(s) Keble College Master Prof. ...

The wooden wedge

There was an equivalent prize for the last-placed classicist called the "wooden wedge", first won in 1824 by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1803-91) of the Wedgwood pottery family. Classics, particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. ... Hensleigh Wedgwood (21 January 1803 - 2 June 1891) was a British etymologist, philologist and barrister, author of A Dictionary of English Etymology. ... Wedgwood is a British pottery firm, originally founded by Josiah Wedgwood, and possibly the most famous name ever associated with pottery in any form, which in 1987 merged with Waterford Crystal to become Waterford Wedgwood. ...

The wooden spoon in sport

Rowing

"Spoons" are also awarded to Oxbridge college rowing crews who go down four places in a Bumps race, or to the boat finishing bottom of the river, something usually to be avoided. In theory, such a crew is allowed to paint a wooden spoon in their club colours and write their names on it as a trophy of their "achievement": this is rarely done but occasionally done by the less serious "beer boats" in the May (summer) Races. Oxbridge is a name used to refer to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest in the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world. ... Corpus bumps Girton at the 2005 May Bumps in Cambridge A bumps race is a form of rowing race in which a number of boats chase each other in single file; each boat attempts to catch the boat in front without being caught by the boat behind. ...

Rugby Union

How the Cambridge wooden spoon idea came to be used in Rugby union is not exactly known, but in the early years of the Six Nations Championship there were many Cambridge graduates playing, so they may have attempted to preserve the concept after the last one was awarded in 1909. It is certain in any case that the tradition first arose in Cambridge and rugby adopted and perpetuated the tradition. A rugby union scrum. ... RBS Six Nations trophy The Six Nations Championship (referred to as RBS 6 Nations for sponsorship reasons), known before 2000 as the Five Nations Championship, is an annual international rugby union competition held between six European sides; England, France (since 1910), Ireland, Italy (since 2000), Scotland and Wales. ...

Nowadays the Wooden Spoon is awarded to any team who finishes at the bottom of the table in the Six Nations held every year between England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. No physical wooden spoon exists or has ever existed in the case of rugby, however. A wooden spoon is a long-handled spoon, usually used in food preparation, that is made of wood. ...

Such is the stigma of the award that the 'winners' will sometimes claim that the Wooden Spoon should only be held by those who win no games at all, but this achievement is properly known as a Whitewash. Whitewash, or calcimine, kalsomine, or calsomine is a type of inexpensive paint made from slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) and chalk (whiting). ...

Australian and New Zealand sports

The term is commonly used in Australian and New Zealand sporting competitions, most notably in the major football leagues (such as the NRL, NPC, and the AFL) to refer to the club positioned last on the league table at the end of a season. For other uses of the term NRL, go to NRL (disambiguation) The National Rugby League (often referred to as the Telstra Premiership for sponsorship purposes) is a competition for rugby league clubs in Australia and New Zealand, and is Australias primary rugby league competition. ... The National Provincial Championship (which for sponsorship reasons, is referred to as Air New Zealand NPC or just simply NPC) is New Zealands principal domestic rugby union competition. ... The Australian Football League (AFL) is the Australian national competition in the sport of Australian rules football. ...

AFL

1916 Wooden Spoon

In the war-time season of 1916, only four teams competed. Fitzroy finished last after the home-and-away season with a record of 2-9-1, and Richmond finished third with a record of 5-7-0. Fitzroy then won three consecutive finals games to claim the premiership, with Richmond shifting into overall last place as the lowest placed semi-final loser. There is hence some uncertainty regarding which team won the wooden spoon in that season.

One side of the debate says that since Fitzroy performed most poorly during the bulk of the season, they deserved the ignominy of the spoon. Conversely, official AFL rankings today will order teams according to their finals finishing order when considering the allocation of draft picks - had a draft existed in 1916, Richmond would have been officially recorded as the overall bottom team, and received the first pick as consolation.

The other consideration is the final winning records. After the finals had finished, Fitzroy's final record was 5-9-1 from fifteen games, with a winning percentage of 36.7%, and Richmond's final record was 5-8-0 from thirteen games, with a winning percentage of 38.4%. So, Fitzroy won more games, and Richmond had a better winning percentage.

The VFL/AFL have never sanctioned a wooden spoon award, so there is no way to categorically state which team "officially" won it. There is an argument to state that both teams lay claim to the 1916 spoon, and this is reflected in the table below. The entire confusing situation is now a regular Melburnian trivia night question.

Joffa's Wooden Spoon (from 2005)

In a 2005 AFL game, Collingwood cheer squad leader Jeff Corfe - "Joffa" - brought in an oversized wooden spoon into the ground at a game between his side Collingwood, and fellow wooden spoon contenders Carlton [2]. Joffa planned to bring this spoon out when it looked like Carlton were going to lose the match. Unfortunately, this plan backfired, and Carlton were comfortable winners (although they still did win the wooden spoon in 2005). In a 2006 AFL game against Carlton, Joffa again brought the oversized wooden spoon. This time Collingwood triumphed and walked out 44 point winners against the Blues, who won the wooden spoon for the second time in a row. The spoon was confiscated as Joffa took it out two minutes early. The Australian Football League (AFL) is the Australian national competition in the sport of Australian rules football. ... The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies after the black and white striped guernseys worn by the players, is an Australian rules football club, playing in the elite Australian Football League. ... The Carlton Football Club is one of the oldest and most successful Australian rules football clubs. ... The Carlton Football Club is one of the oldest and most successful Australian rules football clubs. ... The Carlton Football Club is one of the oldest and most successful Australian rules football clubs. ...

Molly Meldrum at the 1979 Grand Final

On the 1979 Grand Final day, a group of stars from the ABC's Countdown took to the field to entertain the crowd with a frivolous exhibition of football. Each star ran out in the Guernsey of the team he supported, and keen Saints fan Ian "Molly" Meldrum carried with him a large wooden spoon, as the Saints had won by a clear three games that year. The incident was recently shown on music/comedy show Spicks and Specks. A Grand Final is the culmination of a series of final matches played between a number of sporting teams to decide the premier team. ... This is the current Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight! Please help improve it to featured article standard. ... Countdown was a long-running popular weekly Australian music television show broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from late 1974 until July 19 1987. ... The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed The Saints, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... From video The Ultimate Kylie 2004 Ian Molly Meldrum (born January 29, 1946) is a popular Australian popular music critic, journalist, record producer, and musical entrepreneur, best known as talent co-ordinator, on-air interviewer and music news presenter on the seminal popular music program Countdown. ... The Spicks and Specks set This article is about the Australian TV show Spicks and Specks. ...

Records and Trivia

• Of the original VFL teams, who began in 1897, Carlton managed to avoid the wooden spoon the longest, finally claiming the spoon in 2002. Collingwood took the second-longest, claiming it in 1976. Prior to that, the question of who would receive it first was one of the factors that contributed to the traditional Carlton-Collingwood rivalry.
• Collingwood is the only team to have received the wooden spoon in one season and proceed to the grand final the next season. This occurred in 1976-1977.
• Carlton is the only team to have won the pre-season series and go on to receive a wooden spoon in the same year. This occurred in 2005. However, it must also be noted that in 1967, Footscray won the end-of-season night competition (which became the pre-season competition in 1988), after finishing last at the completion of the home and away season.

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AFL Wooden Spoons

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NRL

• Canterbury finished last in 2002 because the NRL stripped them of their competition points for salary-cap breaches, sending them to last place; South Sydney would have received the wooden spoon if not for the breaches.
• The Manly Sea Eagles have never won the wooden spoon since its' inception in 1947. The closest they have come was in 2003 when they finished 14th. However, Balmain had a longer wooden spoon drought, from 1911-74.
• The closest Wests Tigers came to winning the spoon was in 2002, when it finished 13th because of the Bulldogs' salary cap scandal. They would've finished 14th, their worst ever finish after a regular season, if not for the breaches.
• After a 2005 game between the St George Illawarra Dragons and the Newcastle Knights, Newcastle captain Andrew Johns was "presented" with the wooden spoon by an Oki Jubilee Stadium spectator. The following day Reg Reagan (a.k.a. Matthew Johns) presented him with the spoon on his way to a successful brief stint with the Warrington Wolves.
• A picture in a The Daily Telegraph article in 2005 depicts then-Rabbitohs captain Ashley Harrison holding the spoon. The spoon was inserted thanks to some digital media magic.

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The wooden spoon in British ice hockey

The wooden spoon has also become a tradition amongst the supporters of British ice hockey. Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ...

The tradition began in 1999 after a less than successful inaugrual season for the London Knights, who had collected just ten wins and finished comfortably bottom of the Superleague. A group of London fans subsequently purchased a large wooden spoon in order to mark this fact which was proudly displayed amongst their supporters at the Play-Off Finals weekend in Manchester. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... League: Ice Hockey Superleague Founded: 1998 Home Ice: London Arena Capacity: 12500 Ice Size: 197ft x 98ft City: London Colours: Red, Blue, Gold, and White Head Coach: Bob Leslie Ownership: Anschutz Company London Knights were an English ice hockey team based in London. ... Ice Hockey Superleagues logo. ... Manchester is a major city within Greater Manchester in North West England, historically notable for being the worlds first industrialised city, and its subsequent central role in the Industrial Revolution. ...

Twelve months later the spoon returned to the Finals weekend, when it was given to a supporter of the Newcastle Riverkings, who had won just eleven times in forty-two games and had finished bottom of the Superleague by sixteen points. The tradition was born, each year at the Finals weekend the spoon is presented by the previous recipitant to a supporter of the club which finished bottom of the league. That supporter is then entrusted with its safe keeping for the following twelve months and must bring it to the following Finals weekend in order to pass it on to a fan of the next club to have the 'honour' of receiving the reward. The tradition continued after the Superleague disbanded and was replaced by the Elite Ice Hockey League in 2003. The Elite Ice Hockey League (also known for sponsorship reasons as the bmibaby Elite League) is a professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Wooden Spoon is almost entirely a tradition amongst fans, though in 2005, Basingstoke Bison head coach Mark Bernard accepted it on behalf of his team. The Spoon has had engraved onto it the name of each of its recipient clubs and remarkably has never been lost or misplaced and found its way back to the Finals weekend every year. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... League: Elite Ice Hockey League Founded: 1988 Home Ice: Planet Ice Silverdome Arena, Basingstoke Capacity: 4000 Ice Size: 197ft x 98ft City: Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom Colours: Black, White, Red, and Green Head Coach: Mark Bernard Ownership: Planet Ice The Basingstoke Bison are a British ice hockey club from the...

Rather ominiously, only three of the eight recipient clubs so far continue to exist and only the two most recent 'winners' continue to play ice hockey in the country's highest league.

• 1998-99 - London Knights - The Knights won the play-off final the following season, but ceased operations in 2003 following the sale and closure of their London Arena home.
• 1999-00 - Newcastle Riverkings - The Riverkings franchise was sold and the new owners renamed the club the Jesters.
• 2000-01 - Newcaste Jesters - The Jester played only a single season. After the 2000-01 season, it was revealed that the club had large debts and were barred from signing players until these were settled. The club folded midway through the 2001-02 season having not been able to fulfil a single fixture.
• 2001-02 - Manchester Storm - Despite holding the attendance record for an ice hockey game in the United Kingdom at 17,245, falling crowds left the club unable to pay the costs of hiring their MEN Arena home. The club folded shortly after the 2002-03 season began.
• 2002-03 - Bracknell Bees - The Bees transferred into the British National League following the collapse of the Superleague, transferring again to the English Premier Ice Hockey League in 2005.
• 2003-04 - London Racers - Played for only two full seasons before ceasing operations in 2005 due to safety concerns surrounding their Lee Valley Ice Centre home.
• 2004-05 - Basingstoke Bison - Founder members of the EIHL, have struggled to compete with bigger clubs but are committed to remaining part of the EIHL.
• 2005-06 - Edinburgh Capitals - Transferred to the EIHL from the British National League following its collapse in 2005. The club had a difficult start to their first EIHL, picking up only a small number of wins. Despite an excellent second half of the season, the Capitals' early season form saw them finish bottom.

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The Ready Steady Cook wooden spoon

The BBC's cookery gameshow Ready Steady Cook gives a decorated wooden spoon to its losing participants (there are two contestants on each show). It is not by any means the sort of memorabilia you might find bought and sold regularly over eBay, but holds an amount of prestige for minor celebrities in Britain who have appeared on the celebrity version of the show. The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... The single word gameshow is an evolution from game show. Just as flashlight and screwdriver became a single word through usage, gameshow has also become commonly used as a single word. ... Ainsley Harriott on Ready Steady Cook Ready Steady Cook is a BBC daytime TV cooking programme first aired in 1994. ... eBay headquarters in San Jose eBay North First Street satellite office campus (home to PayPal) eBay Inc. ...

External links

• A photograph of the last wooden spoon to be awarded, now held at St John's College, Cambridge

• Cambridge Mathematical Tripos: Wooden Spoons

• Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan [3] , by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton, (Lulu Press, September 2004, ISBN 1-4116-1256-6). This book contains detailed information regarding the Cambridge wooden spoon.