Participation Trophies

Sport, 1966

You’re the “last winner”.

Despite protestations they are nothing new, the term was popularized in a 1966 article in the Amsterdam News about a Brooklyn poverty recreation program titled “A Thousand Kids Earn Trophies”.

• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=participation+trophy
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=participation+trophy
• https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/participation-trophy-history-world-war-i.html