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The McGill Redbirds football team represents McGill University in Canadian football in U Sports and is based in Montreal, Quebec. The program is one of the oldest in all of Canada, having begun organized competition in 1874 .
The 2025 U Sports football season will begin on August 22, 2025, with the McGill Redbirds hosting the Sherbrooke Vert et Or. [1] The Atlantic University Sport , Canada West , and Ontario University Athletics conferences have not yet announced their schedules.
The 2024 U Sports football season began on August 23, 2024, with the defending champion Montreal Carabins hosting the Sherbrooke Vert et Or. [1] On the following day, four Atlantic University Sport teams and six Ontario University Athletics teams opened their schedules on August 24, 2024.
The 2023 U Sports football season began on August 25, 2023, with the defending champion Laval Rouge et Or visiting the Sherbrooke Vert et Or.On the following day, ten Ontario University Athletics teams, four Atlantic University Sport teams, and two RSEQ opened their schedules on August 26, 2023.
In 1877, several McGill students, including Creighton, Henry Joseph, Richard F. Smith, W.F. Robertson, and W.L. Murray codified seven ice hockey rules. The McGill University Hockey Club – later re-christened "The Redmen" – was founded in 1877, arguably making the McGill men's hockey team the first and oldest ice hockey club in the world ...
In the early years of the game, Harvard University and McGill University developed a rivalry that is credited with the establishment of modern American football. [1] [2] [3] The first game played outside the United States occurred on October 23, 1874, when the Crimson defeated McGill 3–0 at Montreal, Quebec.
The 1874 McGill Redmen football team represented McGill University during the 1874 college football season. McGill played only one game, against Harvard under McGill's rugby football rules in Montreal. [1] [2] [3]
Constructed in 1914 at the corner of University and Pine (avenue Des Pins), the stadium sat dormant through World War I with the cessation of football from 1914 to 1918. On July 5, 1917, Captain Percival Molson (1880–1917), great-grandson of brewer John Molson and a McGill University alumnus and sports star who had been instrumental in ...