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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 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. [5]
The 115th Yates Cup game is scheduled to be played on November 11, 2023. [1] On April 20, 2023, the AUS schedule was revealed with the first two games scheduled to be played on August 26, 2023. [2] Five AUS teams will play eight games over 10 weeks with each team receiving two bye weeks. [2]
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.
In the 2023 Yates Cup, Elgersma completed 27 of 43 pass attempts for 242 yards with one touchdown pass and two picks as Laurier had their season ended by Western for the second consecutive season. [3] At the end-of-season awards night, Elgersma was named a U Sports Second Team All-Canadian at quarterback. [6]
Each conference has its own championship trophy; the Hardy Trophy in the West, the Yates Cup in Ontario, the Dunsmore Cup in Quebec and the Jewett Trophy in the Atlantic conference. The conference champions proceed to national semifinal bowl games: the Mitchell Bowl and the Uteck Bowl. The participant conferences of each bowl are determined ...
The OUA awards the Queen's Cup to its men's ice hockey champion, the Yates Cup to its men's football champion and the Wilson Cup to its men's basketball champion. Winners of OUA championships generally go on to compete in the national U Sports competition, against the champions of the other three conferences.
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.