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LONDON — As part of the West all-stars of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) football teams, the Laurier Golden Hawks star players did not disappoint.
In the annual East West Bowl, organized by the Canadian University Football Coaches Association (CUFCA) and hosted by Western University,... Read more
This past weekend, two of the best players from this generation of Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks’ football took part in the Canadian Football League’s (CFL) E-Camp, held in Toronto in front of scouts and coaching staffs from every CFL franchise.
The two Laurier alumni participating were linebacker Mitchell Bosch and wide receiver Shamawd Chambers.
Each player came into the E-Camp and draft with a very different situation.
Chambers is one of the most sought-after athletes in this year’s crop, posting... Read more
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In one of the most anticipated sports games in North America, on Sunday Feb. 5, the New York Giants will face off against the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI.
This will be a déjà vu of the 2007 Super Bowl where the Giants and Patriots faced off with the Giants prevailing against Tom Brady’s Patriots. What will this Super Bowl’s outcome be? The same as last time.
Not only did the Giants beat out the New England Patriots... Read more
Gary Jeffries knows this is an exciting time for Laurier football.
The head coach of the pigskin squad was able to rope in the Waterloo County Secondary School Athletic Association (WCSSA) 2011 MVP defensive lineman Andrew McWhinnie, the first MVP to play locally after the previous three Doug Shuh award winners chose to head west down the 401 and suit up for the Western Mustangs.
The football program held two separate press conferences in December before the holiday break, with... Read more
For the past three years, Wilfrid Laurier University football head coach Gary Jeffries has watched all three Waterloo County Secondary School Athletic Association (WCSSAA) MVP's head to London to play for the team the Golden Hawks love to hate, the Western Mustangs.
In 2008, Resurrection's Beau Landry committed to the purple and white, while Cameron Heights' Andrew Thibaudeau and Tyler Varga did the same in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
But in 2011, the Doug Shuh award winner has chosen to... Read more
VANCOUVER (CUP) — A wild back-and-forth game for the biggest prize in Canadian university football ended with a simple field goal.
A 20-yard field goal in overtime by Tyler Crapigna gave the McMaster Marauders a 41-38 Vanier Cup victory over the Laval Rouge et Or on Friday night.
The victory was McMaster's first Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) football championship, and it didn't come easy. After the Marauders roared to a 23-0 halftime lead, Laval responded with 24 unanswered points to... Read more
KINGSTON, Ont. — It looked like the stars were lining up just the right way for the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks football team.
The squad’s astronomical hopes for their first Yates Cup since 2005 got a significant boost when the game-day line-ups were distributed to the media and teams this past Saturday.
Their quarter-final dance partners, the Queen’s Gaels, had not listed their starting quarterback in the stats tables — Billy McPhee, who threw for 1,660 yards in the regular... Read more
GUELPH, Ont. — The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks are returning to Kingston.
“We’re anxious to go back,” said football head coach Gary Jeffries after the team’s regular season-ending 15-10 win over the Guelph Gryphons at Guelph’s Alumni Field in front of 720 fans on Saturday.
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GUELPH, Ont. — Needing a win to guarantee themselves a berth in the Ontario University Athletics’ (OUA) playoffs, the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks football squad stole a victory against the Guelph Gryphons by a score of 15-10 at Alumni Stadium.
Playing nowhere near their maximized... Read more
The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks hope that this latest hiccup will be their last.
It has to be.
After a 25-6 loss to the visiting McMaster Marauders (6-1) at Alumni Field in front of 1,006 on Saturday, the Hawks (3-4) have destiny riding on their... Read more
After just finding their groove against Waterloo last weekend, it was the winds of change and a stout McMaster Marauders team that felled the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks 25-6 in front of 1,006 at University Stadium on a wet, dark and blustery Saturday.
Marking McMaster’s... Read more
The Bills have shocked the football world so far, opening the year 4-1. Still, it would be easy to dismiss the fantastic start the Bills have had to the season.
This team, for the last decade, has defined failure with only one winning season and zero playoff appearances since 1999.
In fact in 2008, the Bills started the year 5-1 before finishing 7-9.
What makes this season different?
For starters, the Bills boast one of the league’s top offences. Running... Read more
It seems, finally, that the dark days of the season are well behind the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks.
And good riddance, says head coach Gary Jeffries.
“We just wanted to execute,” said the coach. “That’s the best running performance we’ve had this year by far... Read more
The crowd roars as the ball is snapped and quarterback Matthew Stafford drops back, feigning a handoff to the running back before turning quickly and firing off the play-action pass.
After mere milliseconds the football settles hard into the hands of tight end Brandon Pettigrew who was wide open behind the defence on a slant route and hustles in untouched for the 18-yard touchdown, giving the Detroit Lions the 14-10 lead. It was a lead they would hold on to... Read more
If one team was going to show the Ontario University Athletics’ (OUA) returning Waterloo Warriors (0-6) some mercy, it might have been the neighbouring Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks.
But the depth of this Laurier team (3-3) shone through whatever feelings of gratuity coach Gary Jeffries... Read more
Surrounded by inquisitive and prodding journalists, Dillon Heap suppressed a smirk.
The starting punt-returner for the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks knew what those intrepid minds wanted out of him but damned if this was the day they were going to get it.
“I’d just like... Read more
Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love; the home of Rocky Balboa, and cheese steak. Now it’s also home to a team primed to make a Super Bowl run. That’s what we were led to believe anyway when selecting where to go for our annual football trip.
The city of Philadelphia is certainly a great sports town. It has a rich sporting history, mostly filled with disappointment. It has fantastic stadiums all within spitting distance of one another. The fans are... Read more
This time, there was no reason for hanging heads and dragging cleats.
The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks had left everything and maybe even the kitchen sink on the gridiron against their arch-nemesis No. 2 Western Mustangs in their 34-28 loss on Saturday before 2,688 at University Stadium.
The usually-stalwart defence, which had been the missing backbone in each of Laurier’s past two games stood tall and didn’t flinch in the face of one of the greatest offences in the country.
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KINGSTON, Ont. — The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks are making a lot of teams look good.
Their past two opponents, Queen’s and Windsor (two middling Ontario University Athletics squads), who should have no business toppling the Hawks have received two football player of the week honours.
First, it was Austin Kennedy, the scrambling quarterback speedster from Windsor who destroyed the Hawks by racking up 25 passes for 443 yards and rushing for 112.
Kennedy was dubbed OUA footballer of the... Read more
As a football fan, you couldn’t have asked for a more perfectly-scripted contest between the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks and the Windsor Lancers on Saturday.
But as a Hawks fan, the bitter after-taste of the 41-40 loss may have just soured the experience of a... Read more
