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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.
In the Yates Cup, Elgersma completed 18 of 30 passes for 306 yards and four touchdown passes as he was named the game's MVP in the championship win over the Western Mustangs. [9] In the following week, in the Uteck Bowl , he set a bowl game record for most passing yards in a game with 452 yards while throwing five touchdown passes in the ...
From 1953 through 1958 the game was a pre-season interconference exhibition. In 1959 and 1960, the Churchill Bowl was switched to a post-season game, pitting the Yates Cup and Hardy Trophy champions against each other in the first attempt in an unofficial national championship. [2]
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 ...
The Yates Cup Ontario conference championship team, the Western Mustangs, visited the Québec conference Dunsmore Cup winners, the Montreal Carabins, for the Uteck Bowl. [14] These games were played on November 18, 2023, while the Vanier Cup was played on November 25, 2023.
The Mustangs have also won the Yates Cup conference championship 35 times in team history; more than any other Canadian University. The Western Mustangs play their home games at Western Alumni Stadium, located on the south side of campus. With 8,000 seats, Western Alumni Stadium is the second-largest stadium in the OUA association.
Asselin inherited key pieces of the roster that would be essential in putting together the team's Yates Cup run in 2010. With All-Canadian quarterback Brad Sinopoli under centre, the team cruised to an appearance in the Yates Cup final against rival Western Mustangs. The Gee-Gees lost the game 26–25 on a last-second field goal.
York started the campaign with an 83–0 loss to the eventual Yates Cup Champion Western Mustangs, [136] but bounced back to a closer 53–32 loss against the Waterloo Warriors. [137] York lost every other remaining game by wide margins; being outscored 10 to 424 in the remaining 6 games.