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26-463: The Carabins cheerleading team was created in 2002 at the same time as the rebirth of the Carabins football team. The team has hosted Super Bowl parties in order to finance its activities. The Carabins football program was originally in operation from 1966 to 1971, but was cut following a philosophical change with intercollegiate athletics among Quebec universities at the time. As that perception changed,

52-478: A move to Hamilton for 2004 and 2005, followed by Saskatoon in 2006. Quebec City , Vancouver , Montreal , London , and Kingston have since hosted Vanier Cup games. There have been efforts at establishing new varsity football programs at institutions that currently do not have teams. A group of alumni from Carleton University in Ottawa successfully revived that school's program which returned in 2013. The team

78-420: A nationally televised package of regular-season games to be sold to a major broadcaster. The Northern 8 would be structured as a non-profit corporation and would subsidize production costs for its telecasts: profits would be distributed to non-member schools. It would start with eight teams but could expand to 10 in the future. The Canada West conference backed the proposal. The OUA, RSEQ and AUS showed concerns for

104-505: A record 208 U Sports alumni on CFL rosters. Maya Turner became the first woman to play in any U Sports regular season football game, on September 23, 2023, as a Manitoba Bisons kicker. She kicked the game winning field goal in overtime for the Bisons in their game against the Regina Rams . The regular season is nine to ten weeks long, depending on the conference, and, as of 2019 , opens on

130-487: Is a member of the Ontario University Athletics conference of U Sports, returning football to Carleton University after a 15-year absence. The Université de Moncton investigated a possible football program in 2011, due to the construction of Moncton Stadium in 2010. In May 2011, the athletics department submitted a feasibility report to the school's president and are based part of their decision upon how

156-806: The Canada West Universities Athletic Association , the UBC Okanagan Heat explored the feasibility of starting their own football program, partnered with the CJFL 's Okanagan Sun . UBCO would have partnered with the Sun in much the same way that the University of Regina was paired with the Prairie Football Conference 's Regina Rams . However, UBC-O lacked a stadium on campus. The Kelowna city-owned Apple Bowl Stadium did not meet

182-579: The Canadian Football League . Opening Day of the 2015 CFL season saw a record 199 U Sports football players on rosters around the League. In 2022 , 205 former U Sports football players were featured on CFL teams' rosters on opening day. The following is a list of recent numbers from the CFL Draft , which is an annual eight-round event with a current maximum of 74 players drafted. From 1997 to 2012

208-628: The Mitchell Bowl and the Uteck Bowl . The participant conferences of each bowl are determined several years in advance on a rotating basis. The winners of each bowl game meet in the Vanier Cup national championship, first established in 1965 and named in honour of Governor General Georges Vanier . The game was held in Toronto every year through 2003 when host conference bids were first accepted, yielding

234-573: The Montreal Carabins in Montreal, Quebec . The Atlantic University Sport conference started play the following day and the Ontario University Athletics conference began play on August 25, 2019. The Canada West teams began play during the following weekend, on August 30, 2019. All 27 U Sports football teams played eight regular season games against opponents within the same conference. The conference championships were played on November 9 and

260-595: The National Football League with Giovanni Manu being the most recent. As of 2023, U Sports had produced 41 players who have earned a spot on an NFL roster (including four who did not play a regular season game; players listed in chronological order by entry year in NFL): 2019 U Sports football season The 2019 U Sports football season began on August 23, 2019, with the Concordia Stingers hosting

286-496: The Saskatchewan Huskies ) and Jim Mullin announced a proposal for a consortium known as the " Northern 8 ", which would organize interconference games between its member schools. Dube felt that this plan could help improve the prominence of CIS football on a national basis outside of the post-season (which, as of the 2014 season, was the only period of the season that featured nationally televised CIS games), as it would allow

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312-524: The CFL Draft had six rounds of selections and from 2013 to 2015 it had seven rounds. From 2002 to 2005, the CFL had nine teams, then reverted to eight teams from 2006 to 2013, and then was back to its current number of nine teams in 2014. The high-water mark of 60 players from the U Sports drafted was recorded in the 2022 CFL Draft , which was the most since 1978 . There have been 15 U Sports players drafted into

338-623: The RSEQ and has won one RSEQ championship (2016). Since their inaugural season in 2012, the Carabins women's rugby program competes at a varsity level against universities from Québec and Eastern Ontario in the RSEQ conference of U Sports. U Sports football U Sports football is the highest level of amateur play of Canadian football and operates under the auspices of U Sports , Canada's governing body for university sports. Twenty-seven teams from Canadian universities are divided into four athletic conferences , drawing from

364-471: The championship trophy of the professional Canadian Football League (CFL) since its founding in the 1950s, was originally contested by teams from the University of Toronto and Queen's University and other amateur teams since 1909. Many U Sports players have gone on to professional careers in the CFL and elsewhere; a number are drafted annually in the Canadian College Draft . In 2021 , there were

390-544: The fans in Moncton received the Uteck Bowl in 2011. The 2011 Uteck Bowl was not well supported in Moncton, and there has been little support for a team since. A club team league , the Atlantic Football League , features four-to-five universities, depending on the season. There is hope this may lead to varsity teams featured at some of these schools. Following their successful application to become full members of

416-421: The first documented game was played at University College at the University of Toronto in 1861. A number of U Sports programs have been in existence since the origins of the sport. It is from these Canadian universities that the game now known as Canadian football began. In 1874 , McGill University ( Montreal ) challenged Harvard University ( Cambridge, Massachusetts ) to a series of games. The Grey Cup ,

442-873: The first round of the post-season in the OUA occurs during the same week that each of the other three conferences are playing their last regular season games. Each conference has its own championship trophy; the Hardy Trophy in the West, the Yates Cup in Ontario, the Dunsmore Cup in Quebec and the Jewett Trophy in the Atlantic conference. The conference champions proceed to national semifinal bowl games:

468-561: The football team was reinstated in 2002 and has been in continuous operation since. The team has won five Dunsmore Cup conference championships (2014, 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2023) and two Vanier Cups national championship ( 2014 , 2023 ). The 2009-10 season was their inaugural season in the CIS. The Carabins finished second during the regular season and claimed the fifth position in the CIS Canadian championships. In their second season (2010–11),

494-425: The four regional associations of U Sports: Canada West Universities Athletic Association , Ontario University Athletics , Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec , and Atlantic University Sport . At the end of every season, the champions of each conference advance to semifinal bowl games; the winners of these meet in the Vanier Cup national championship. The origins of North American football can be traced here, where

520-429: The guidelines required for entry into Canada West football after a conference site visit in 2014. The University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières explored the possibility of adding a football program with the launch planned for the 2017 season. The program would have been similar to Carleton University's in that there would be private funding from football alumni, but operated by shareholders. As of April 2015, $ 800,000 of

546-480: The plan due to travel costs and their effects on standings and rejected the plan. There are post-season awards for on-the-field excellence. The players deemed to be the best at each position are named to the annual All-Canadian Football Team as first or second team players. Additionally there are a number of individual awards for categories like "best defensive player". Many players from U Sports football have become professional athletes with most of them playing in

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572-428: The regular season, single elimination playoff games are held between the top teams in each conference to determine conference champions. In the Atlantic, Canada West, and Quebec conferences, the top four teams qualify for the playoffs. In Ontario, the top seven teams qualify with the top team receiving a playoff bye to the next round. Because the OUA teams have conference playoffs that last three weeks instead of two,

598-465: The required $ 3 million had been raised in support of the varsity sport at UQTR. The capacity of the football stadium would then be increased from 2000 to 6270 seats. However, the UQTR Board of Regents refused to commit to the proposal. The UQTR Patriotes previously fielded a senior varsity team from 1971 to 1973 and 1977 to 1979. In February 2015, businessman David Dube (an alumnus and supporter of

624-1019: The season ended on November 23 with the 55th Vanier Cup championship at PEPS Stadium in Quebec City, Quebec . The Calgary Dinos defeated the Montreal Carabins 27–13 to win their fifth Vanier Cup , and their first since 1995. Levondre Gordon (Laurier) Dale Wright (Acadia) James Tyrrell (Concordia) Will Corby (Toronto) Glodin Mulall (Acadia) Ben Kopczynski (Alberta) Mattland Riley (Saskatchewan) Pier-Olivier Lestage (Montreal) Carter O'Donnell (Alberta) Zack Fry (Western) Evan Machibroda (Saskatchewan) J-Min Pelley (Calgary) Reshaan Davis (Ottawa) Malcolm Campbell (Toronto) Alexander Campbell (Laval) Nick Cross (UBC) Ben Hladik (UBC) Bailey Feltmate (Acadia) Marc-Antoine Dequoy (Montreal) Shae Weekes (Manitoba) Deane Leonard (Calgary) Antoine Lyte-Myers (Saint Mary's) The Vanier Cup

650-578: The team ranked in second place in the Québécois conference behind the McGill Martlets . In the 2011 playoffs, the Carabins eliminated the Concordia Stingers but the Carabins are in turn to eliminate in finale by McGill. This elimination did not qualify them for the CIS championships at Waterloo, Ontario . Since their inaugural season in 2012, the Carabins men's rugby program competes at a varsity level against universities from Québec and Eastern Ontario in

676-614: The weekend before the Labour Day weekend. Teams play eight regular season games and regular season games are in-conference with exhibition (pre-season) games being played between conferences. Throughout the season, there are featured homecoming and rivalry games in most regions. Following the conclusion of the regular season, the Hec Crighton Trophy is awarded annually to the Most Valuable Player of U Sports football. After

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