Western look for threepeat as Queen’s host U SPORTS Vanier Cup
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Category: Football
PREVIEW: As StFX chase U SPORTS bowl, AUS challengers beckon
HALIFAX, NS. – The U SPORTS AUS football season is beginning to rev its engines with games starting on August 26, but there is still a clear favourite amongst the league. 2023 will be the 63rd season in AUS history, and just like last season, there is a “David vs Goliath” theme amongst the league, which is between STFX and the rest of the AUS. … Continue reading PREVIEW: As StFX chase U SPORTS bowl, AUS challengers beckon
PREVIEW: Laval seeking Dunsmore Cup repeat in competitive RSEQ
MONTREAL, QC – The 2022 Dunsmore Cup–Quebec’s annual university football championship–closed out the U SPORTS RSEQ season with a bang last November. The Laval Rouge et Or defeated the Montreal Carabins 24-23 on a last-second rouge to be crowned provincial champions. The beginning of a new RSEQ football season is drawing ever nearer. All five teams–Laval Rouge et Or, Montreal Carabins, Sherbrooke Vert et Or, … Continue reading PREVIEW: Laval seeking Dunsmore Cup repeat in competitive RSEQ
Laval’s Kevin Mital set to plead guilty to assault charges: report
UPDATED 5:10 pm ET, Aug. 10 TORONTO, ON – Laval Rouge et Or receiver Kevin Mital has been charged with assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm and threats, Le Soleil reported on Wednesday, with the alleged charges taking place on Dec. 10, 2021. For the 2022 Hec Creighton Award winner and Vanier Cup Champion, participation in the 2023 U SPORTS and RSEQ seasons … Continue reading Laval’s Kevin Mital set to plead guilty to assault charges: report
StFX football pushing to get over U SPORTS bowl game hump
HALIFAX, NS – STFX’s football team has not lost a game against AUS competition in two years, but both the 2021 and 2022 seasons have ended in a familiar way — a loss in the U SPORTS national championship semifinal. The X-Men have not won a national bowl game since 1996, and they are not the only AUS team to struggle on the national stage. … Continue reading StFX football pushing to get over U SPORTS bowl game hump
“Everyone wants to win”: How the East-West bowl experience resonates
Hamilton, ON- The U SPORTS football East-West Bowl has many different meanings. For former McMaster Marauders quarterback Marshall Ferguson, who played in the 2013 game, it’s an institution – “a football field full of Canadian university football’s best and brightest coaches and players,” he calls it. For CFL personnel, it’s a key date on the CFL scouting calendar where they can evaluate U SPORTS players … Continue reading “Everyone wants to win”: How the East-West bowl experience resonates
Kevin Mital comes through one more time as the Laval Rouge et Or win the 57th Vanier Cup
London, ON – When he stepped up the mic, just around 45 minutes after a 30-24 victory over Saskatchewan gave him his 10th Vanier Cup, Laval Rouge et Or head coach Glen Constantin knew he needed to talk about Kevin Mital. “When he [Mital] came back from Syracuse, he told me two things, I want number eight, and I want to win the championship,” Constantin said. … Continue reading Kevin Mital comes through one more time as the Laval Rouge et Or win the 57th Vanier Cup
Three stories to watch heading into the Vanier Cup
London, ON – The lights are up, the grandstands are in place, and the stage is just about set at Alumni Stadium at Western University as the 57th Vanier Cup is officially under 24 hours away. Both the Saskatchewan Huskies and the Laval Rouge et Or took to the field on Friday for their final practices in advance of the big game that kicks off … Continue reading Three stories to watch heading into the Vanier Cup
Why Saskatchewan or Laval could win the Vanier Cup
Breaking down potential reasons why the Huskies or the Rouge et Or could win the 57th Vanier Cup So it’s down to this. It’s perhaps a little less dramatic than a potential rematch of the 2021 Vanier Cup, but on Saturday, the Saskatchewan Huskies and the Laval Rouge et Or square off in the 57th Vanier Cup at Western University in London, Ontario. It was … Continue reading Why Saskatchewan or Laval could win the Vanier Cup
Laval stuns Western in the Mitchell Bowl to advance to the Vanier Cup
RSEQ champion Rouge et Or take down the defending Vanier Cup champions to advance to their first Vanier Cup since 2018 The Laval Rouge et Or lived at the Vanier Cup in the 2010s, making the biggest game of the U SPORTS football season seven times in ten seasons and winning five. On Saturday the Rouge et Or faced a chance to get back into … Continue reading Laval stuns Western in the Mitchell Bowl to advance to the Vanier Cup