Standing at 7’6” in height and weighing in at over 320 pounds, Chief Caddo is the largest symbol passed between NCAA universities in the nation. The statue is awarded annually to the winner of the Lumberjack-Demon contest. The statue originated in 1960 when longtime rivals SFA and Northwestern State decided to award the winner of the game a trophy. The two institutions settled on a statue of a mythical Indian chief whose tribe was fabled to be responsible for settling the locations that became English-speaking Nacogdoches and Natchitoches. Historians say had it not been for the Caddo Indians, the Spanish and French colonists who came to the area would not have survived the onslaughts of Apache and Comanche warriors from the west, and the Natchez from the east. Also, French and Spanish writers of the time said it was certain wise Caddo chiefs made it possible for the two European colonies to live as neighbors while their mother countries were at war against each other.