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Pick the cliche _ David versus Goliath, Jack and the Giant or any other underdog story _ and Acadia Axemen coach Jeff Cummins has heard it to describe his team's Uteck Bowl matchup with the Laval Rouge et Or.
Often.
``We're a good program, over the last five, six years we've done a lot of good things,'' Cummins said Thursday from Quebec City, where No. 10 Acadia is preparing for ...
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Warren Kean can be forgiven for waking up Sunday morning with a
sore leg.
The all-Canadian kicker nailed nine field goals, the final one
coming in the sixth overtime period as the fourth-ranked Concordia
Stingers earned a 34-31 victory over the Saint Mary's Huskies in
Canadian university football action Saturday.
The crowd of 2,019 at Concordia Stadium was treated to one of the
most entertaining football games of the season, extended by Kean's
24-yard field goal with 15 ...
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Laval Rouge et Or coach Glen Constantin is nit-picking.
Sure his team is 6-0 in what is quickly becoming Canadian university football's strongest conference, just a win away from clinching home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. Yes, they've held the country's No. 1 ranking for eight weeks running.
He should be content. He's not.
``We're sloppy, we're young on defence,'' Constantin said Wednesday. ``We're doing pretty good on offence. Defensively we're ...
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Cameron Takacs' 23-yard field goal in overtime earned the top-ranked Laval Rouge et Or a 21-18 win over the No. 5 Concordia Stingers in Canadian university football action Sunday.
Laval (6-0) extended its unbeaten streak versus Quebec opponents to 20 games with the victory, which came before 14,128 spectators at PEPS Stadium.
Concordia had the first possession in overtime, but Warren Kean missed a 45-yard field goal attempt. Kean forced ...
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Windsor running back Daryl Stephenson was named the offensive player of the week in Canadian university football Wednesday while Mount Allison teammates Jock Gemmell and Gary Ross were also honoured after helping their team to its first win in four years.
Stephenson, a third-year human kinetics major from London, Ont., rushed for 247 rushing yards and four touchdowns in a 41-28 win over York on Saturday. Stephenson leads the CIS ...
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Laval remains undefeated and continues to set the bar in CIS football.
The Rouge et Or earned 13 of 15 first-place votes to remain Canada's top team for a seventh straight week in the media poll released Tuesday.
Laval, coming off a 26-14 win over Bishop's, is one of three teams with a perfect 5-0 record. It has not lost to a Quebec Conference opponent in 19 games.
Manitoba (5-0) ...
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The Mount Allison Mounties were on top of the world Saturday,
erasing a streak of futility that spanned four long seasons.
The Mounties capitalized on two key special teams plays, ending a
34-game winless drought with a 24-18 victory over the St. Francis
Xavier X-Men in Canadian university football action.
The Mounties (1-4) hadn't won since beating the first-year
Montreal Carabins 21-4 in an interconference match Sept. 14, 2002.
They had lost 27 straight to Atlantic opponents ...
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