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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.
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.
The Vanier Cup was played between the champions of the Mitchell Bowl and the Uteck Bowl, the national semi-final games. In 2023, as per the rotating schedule, the Atlantic conference's Loney Bowl championship team, the St. Francis Xavier X-Men , visited the Canada West Hardy Trophy winners, the UBC Thunderbirds for the Mitchell Bowl.
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Defeated Ottawa Gee-Gees in Yates Cup final 31–17 Defeated Saint Mary's Huskies in Mitchell Bowl 28–12 Lost to Laval Rouge et Or in 44th Vanier Cup 44–21 2009: 8: 6: 2: 0.750: 335: 145: 3rd in OUA: Defeated Guelph Gryphons in quarter-final 37–18 Defeated Laurier Golden Hawks in semi-final 26–16 Lost to Queen's Golden Gaels in Yates ...
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 a move to Hamilton for 2004 and 2005, followed by Saskatoon in 2006.
The conference championships were played on the weekend of November 12, 2022, and the season concluded on November 26, 2022, with the 57th Vanier Cup championship, which returned to the pre-pandemic scheduling used in 2019. [5] The championship game was played at Western Alumni Stadium in London, Ontario for the first time in the game's history.
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.