Queen's Gaels football

Queen's Gaels
First season 1882
Athletic director Leslie Dal Cin
Head coach Pat Sheahan
17th year, 83–53–0  (.610)
Other staff Greg Marshall (DC)
Phil Roberts (SC)
Ryan Sheahan (QB)
Home stadium Richardson Memorial Stadium
Year built 1971
Stadium capacity 8,500
Stadium surface Natural Grass
Location Kingston, Ontario
League CIS
Conference OUA (2001-present)
Past associations ORFU (1883-1897)
CIRFU (1898-1954)
O-QAA (1955-1970)
OUAA (1971-1973)
OQIFC (1974-2000)
All-time record 464–359–17 (.563)
Postseason record –
Grey Cups 3 (1922, 1923, 1924)
Vanier Cups 4 (1968, 1978, 1992, 2009)
Mitchell Bowl Championships 1 (2009)
Churchill Bowl Championships 3 (1968, 1983, 1992)
Atlantic Bowl Championships 1 (1978)
Yates Cups 23 (1900, 1904, 1922,
1923, 1924, 1925, 1927,
1929, 1930, 1934, 1935,
1937, 1955, 1956, 1961,
1963, 1964, 1966, 1968,
1970, 1977, 1978, 2009)
Dunsmore Cups 7 (1981, 1983, 1984,
1989, 1991, 1992, 1997)
Hec Crighton winners 3 (Larry Mohr, Tom Denison (2))
Current uniform
Colours Gold and Blue and Red

                     

Fight song Oil Thigh
Mascot Boo-Hoo
Outfitter Adidas
Rivals Western Mustangs
Website gogaelsgo.com

The Queen's Gaels football team represents Queen's University which is based in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The team plays Canadian Interuniversity Sport football in the Ontario University Athletics conference. The program began in 1882 and has competed for and won three Grey Cup championships and four Vanier Cup championships. The program has also boasted three Hec Crighton Trophy winners, including Tom Denison who won it twice.

History

Gaels football at Richardson Memorial Stadium in 2006.

The program is one of the longest-lived and storied in the entire Canadian Interuniversity Sport. The team began organized play in 1883 when the Ontario Rugby Football Union was first founded and won ORFU championships in 1893 and 1894. Queen's has competed continuously since 1882, celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2007. The first organized university football league in Canada, the Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union (CIRFU), was founded in Kingston in November, 1897, with charter members Queen's, McGill University, and the University of Toronto.[1] The football team exerted its dominance in the 1920s, winning three straight Grey Cups in 1922, 1923 and 1924. Once teams stopped competing for the Grey Cup, which was begun being solely awarded to Canadian Football League teams in 1955, the Gaels turned their attention to the Vanier Cup, appearing in the CIS championship game five times and winning four of those games in 1968, 1978, 1992 and 2009.

The team is led by head coach Pat Sheahan who has been in charge of the football program at Queen's since taking over in 2000. He led the team to their most recent Vanier Cup win in 2009 and has only missed the playoffs in five of the 17 years that he has been the head coach.

Recent years

The team won their fourth Vanier Cup in 2009, but due to quarterback Danny Brannagan's graduation (and subsequent signing by the Toronto Argonauts) and other key players leaving, the team endured a difficult 2010 season, finishing 3-5. The team just barely made the playoffs in 2010, but had strong seasons in 2011 and 2012 when the team finished 6-2 and in third place in both years. The Gaels qualified for the playoffs for eight straight years until they finally missed the playoffs in 2014. The team finished fourth in the OUA in 2015, but they were upset by the Carleton Ravens in the semi-final game. The team finished in seventh place in 2016 with a 3-5 record and missed the playoffs due to a tie-breaker with Guelph, whom they lost to earlier in the season.

Season-by-season record

The following is the record of the Queen's Gaels football team since Pat Sheahan became head coach in 2000:

Season Games Won Lost Pct % PF PA Standing Playoffs
20008 17 0.125 114 312 6th in OQIFC Did not qualify
20018 53 0.625 201 171 4th in OUA Defeated Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks in quarter-final 29-27
Lost to Ottawa Gee-Gees in semi-final 47-12
20028 71 0.875 271 102 2nd in OUA Defeated Waterloo Warriors in quarter-final 51-14
Defeated Western Mustangs in semi-final 55-20
Lost to McMaster Marauders in Yates Cup final 33-17
20038 71 0.875 361 134 2nd in OUA Defeated York Lions in quarter-final 27-6
Lost to Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks in semi-final 36-33
20048 26 0.250 211 195 9th in OUA Did not qualify
20058 35 0.375 198 223 7th in OUA Did not qualify
20068 44 0.500 177 147 6th in OUA Defeated McMaster Marauders 25-19 in quarter-final
Lost to Ottawa Gee-Gees in semi-final 23-10
20078 62 0.750 229 117 3rd in OUA Lost to Western Mustangs in quarter-final 27-19
20088 80 1.000 374 116 1st in OUA Lost to Ottawa Gee-Gees in semi-final 23-13
20098 71 0.750 272 149 1st in OUA Defeated McMaster Marauders in semi-final 32-6
Defeated Western Mustangs in Yates Cup final 43-39
Defeated Laval Rouge-et-Or in Mitchell Bowl 33-30
Defeated Calgary Dinos in 45th Vanier Cup 33-31
20108 35 0.375 249 183 6th in OUA Lost to McMaster Marauders in quarter-final 40-19
20118 62 0.750 259 103 3rd in OUA Defeated Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks in quarter-final 14-10
Lost to McMaster Marauders in semi-final 40-13
20128 62 0.750 247 145 3rd in OUA Defeated Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks in quarter-final 34-0
Lost to Guelph Gryphons in semi-final 30-13
20138 71 0.875 354 208 2nd in OUA Defeated Guelph Gryphons in semi-final 34-17
Lost to Western Mustangs in Yates Cup final
20148 35 0.375 203 227 8th in OUA Did not qualify
20158 53 0.625 242 251 4th in OUA Lost to Carleton Ravens in quarter-final 39-8
20168 35 0.375 236 210 7th in OUA Did not qualify

Queen's Gaels in the CFL

As of the start of the 2016 CFL season, eight former Gaels players are on CFL teams' rosters:

Few know that Carl Voss (BA 27) was both an excellent football and hockey player. While at university he played 4 seasons (1924 to 1927) with the Queen's Golden Gaels. This included a victory in the 1924 12th Grey Cup. Voss has his name engraved on the Grey Cup for this season. Voss also scored the Stanley Cup winning goal for the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1938 Stanley Cup Finals. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

This makes Voss, along with Hall-of-Famer Lionel Conacher, one of only two players to have their name engraved on both the Stanley Cup and the Grey Cup.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.cisport.ca, History of Canadian University Football section.
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