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The Yates Cup (French: La Coupe Yates) is a Canadian sports trophy, presented annually to the winner of the Ontario University Athletics football conference of U Sports.It is the oldest still-existing football trophy in North America, dating back to 1898 and surpassing both the Grey Cup and the Little Brown Jug in longevity.
The team won their first Yates Cup championship in 1984 and also won their first and only Vanier Cup championship that year against the Mount Allison Mounties. While the team was competitive in the 1990s and won two more Yates Cup championships in 1992 and 1996, the 1984 Vanier Cup was the program's only appearance in the title game.
The Gee-Gees became Yates Cup champions for the first time in 1907. One star player from this era was Silver Quilty , who according to the Gee-Gees Football Hall of Fame, "played three roles for the Gee-Gees team, he was the first man to play the "flying wing" position, and he was the prime ball carrier as well as the team's kicker in 1908 and ...
Yates Racing was an American stock car racing team that competed in NASCAR through the 2009 season, after which it merged into Richard Petty Motorsports. [1] Previously known as Robert Yates Racing, the team was owned by Doug Yates, who has officially owned the team since his father Robert's retirement on December 1, 2007.
While the team qualified for the Yates Cup again, the team was hammered by the eventual Vanier Cup champion Western Mustangs by a score of 75–32. [16] In 2018 , the team finished with a 4–4 record and a seventh-place finish after losing the tie-breaker with the Waterloo Warriors , whom they had lost to earlier in the season for the first ...
His regular season record had a total of 90 wins and 62 losses, with a playoff record of 12 wins and 12 losses. He led the team to 1 Vanier Cup championship , 1 Mitchell Bowl (2009), 1 Yates Cup (2009), with 3 Yates Cup appearances (losses in 2002 and 2013) and 13 total OUA playoff appearances. In total, he had 176 games as head coach.
From 1898, McGill played in the Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union, and won their first championship, the Yates Cup in 1902. In 1912, Frank Shaughnessy was recruited as the first professional head coach. His teams won the Yates Cup during his first two seasons.
The Yates Cup Ontario Conference champion would visit the Atlantic Conference's Loney Bowl winners for the Uteck Bowl. [5] These games were played on November 16, 2024, while the 59th Vanier Cup was played on November 23, 2024.