McGill Redmen
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The McGill Redmen CIS football
team is one of the oldest in all of Canada, having begun organized competition in 1898. The team has appeared in three Vanier Cup
national championships, in 1969, 1973 and 1987, with the Redmen finally winning the title in the 1987 game. McGill plays out of Percival Molson Memorial Stadium, where the Canadian Football League
's Montreal Alouettes
also play.
After their 2005 suspension, the team struggled with three losing seasons, including two winless seasons in 2007 and 2008. The program showed signs of hope as the Redmen won three games in 2009, but soon sank back down to futility with consecutive winless campaigns in 2010 and 2011.
, one former Redmen player is on a CFL team's roster:
On March 3, 1875 the first organized indoor game was played at Montreal's Victoria Skating Rink by James George Aylwin Creighton and several McGill University
students. 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 Redmen the oldest ice hockey
club in the world still playing.
, with home games played at McGill's Forbes Field.
Preparation the CIS season starts with try-outs in mid-August and several preseason games against NCAA teams.
(ICSA). The team trains out of the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club (RStLYC) throughout the fall and competes in dinghies such as the collegiate 420 (dinghy)
and the Flying Junior
. Every spring, the Redmen attend the U.K. Team Racing Championships, the Wilson Trophy in West Kirby
, England
.
involving sexual abuse
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CIS football
Twenty-six universities across Canada compete in football under the auspices of Canadian Interuniversity Sport . The teams are divided into four conferences, drawing from the four regional associations of the CIS: Canada West Universities Athletic Association, Ontario University Athletics, Quebec...
team is one of the oldest in all of Canada, having begun organized competition in 1898. The team has appeared in three Vanier Cup
Vanier Cup
The Vanier Cup is the name of the championship of Canadian Interuniversity Sport football and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team. It is currently played between the winners of the Uteck Bowl and the Mitchell Bowl...
national championships, in 1969, 1973 and 1987, with the Redmen finally winning the title in the 1987 game. McGill plays out of Percival Molson Memorial Stadium, where the Canadian Football League
Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....
's Montreal Alouettes
Montreal Alouettes
The Montreal Alouettes are a Canadian Football League team based in Montreal, Quebec.The current franchise named the Alouettes moved to Montreal from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1996 where they had been known as the Baltimore Stallions...
also play.
After their 2005 suspension, the team struggled with three losing seasons, including two winless seasons in 2007 and 2008. The program showed signs of hope as the Redmen won three games in 2009, but soon sank back down to futility with consecutive winless campaigns in 2010 and 2011.
Recent Regular season results
| Season | Games | Won | Lost | OL | Pct % | PF | PA | Standing |
| 2001 | 8 | 5 | 3 | |||||
| 0.625 | 161 | 166 | 2nd in QUFL | |||||
| 2002 | 8 | 7 | 1 | |||||
| 0.875 | 299 | 93 | 1st in QUFL | |||||
| 2003 | 8 | 3 | 5 | |||||
| 0.375 | 171 | 205 | 4th in QUFL | |||||
| 2004 | 8 | 4 | 4 | |||||
| 0.500 | 162 | 158 | 4th in QUFL | |||||
| 2005 | 8 | 1 | 7 | |||||
| 0.125 | 120 | 233 | 6th in QUFL | |||||
| 2006 | 7 | 3 | 4 | |||||
| 0.429 | 151 | 168 | 4th in QUFL | |||||
| 2007 | 8 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| 0.000 | 144 | 289 | 6th in QUFL | |||||
| 2008 | 8 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| 0.000 | 130 | 413 | 6th in QUFL | |||||
| 2009 | 8 | 3 | 5 | |||||
| 0.375 | 181 | 267 | 5th in QUFL | |||||
| 2010 | 9 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| 0.000 | 102 | 330 | 6th in QUFL | |||||
| 2011 | 9 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| 0.000 | 139 | 287 | 6th in QUFL |
Recent Playoff Results
- 2001 Defeated Concordia StingersConcordia StingersThe Concordia Stingers are the athletic teams that represent Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They compete with other schools in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, and more specifically, in the Quebec Student Sports Federation and the Quebec University Football League...
in semi-final 11-8
Lost to Laval Rouge et Or in Dunsmore CupDunsmore CupThe Dunsmore Cup is a Canadian sports trophy, presented annually to the winner of the Quebec University Football League of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport federation...
42-14 - 2002 Defeated Bishop's GaitersBishop's GaitersThe Bishop's Gaiters is the name of the men's and women's athletic teams that represent Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Although their logo and mascot suggest the term stems from the word alligator, "Gaiter" actually refers to a boot covering worn by Anglican bishops up until the...
in semi-final 44-0
Defeated Concordia StingersConcordia StingersThe Concordia Stingers are the athletic teams that represent Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They compete with other schools in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, and more specifically, in the Quebec Student Sports Federation and the Quebec University Football League...
in Dunsmore CupDunsmore CupThe Dunsmore Cup is a Canadian sports trophy, presented annually to the winner of the Quebec University Football League of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport federation...
10-6
Lost to Saskatchewan HuskiesSaskatchewan HuskiesThe University of Saskatchewan began in 1907 and has operated teams that compete with others since 1911. The term Huskie Athletics is defined as those student athletes from the University of Saskatchewan that compete in elite interuniversity competition administered by Canadian Interuniversity...
in Mitchell BowlMitchell BowlThe Mitchell Bowl is one of the two semifinal bowls of Canadian Interuniversity Sport men's football, and is the semifinal held in the westernmost location of the two semifinal venues. The winner of this game goes on to play against the Uteck Bowl champions for the Vanier Cup...
22-0 - 2003 Lost to Laval Rouge et Or in semi-final 47-7
- 2004 Defeated Montreal Carabins in semi-final 38-18
- 2005 Out of playoffs
- 2006 Lost to Laval Rouge et Or in semi-final 52-0
- 2007 Out of playoffs
- 2008 Out of playoffs
- 2009 Out of playoffs
- 2010 Out of playoffs
- 2011 Out of playoffs
McGill Redmen in the CFL
As of the end of the 2011 CFL season2011 CFL season
The 2011 CFL season was the 58th season of modern Canadian professional football. Officially, it was the 54th season of the league. The complete schedule was released on February 18 and featured the defending Grey Cup champion Montreal Alouettes opening the season against the visiting BC Lions on...
, one former Redmen player is on a CFL team's roster:
- Randy ChevrierRandy ChevrierRandy Chevrier is a Canadian football defensive tackle for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the seventh round of the 2001 NFL Draft and by the Edmonton Eskimos fifth overall of the 2001 CFL Draft...
, Calgary StampedersCalgary StampedersThe Calgary Stampeders are a Canadian Football League team based in Calgary, Alberta and named in reference to the Calgary Stampede. The Stampeders play their home games at McMahon Stadium...
McGill and the Origins of ice hockey
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
students. 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 Redmen the oldest ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
club in the world still playing.
- November 15, 2003: Kim St. Pierre was the first woman in CIS history to be credited with a win in a men's regular season game. This occurred when the McGill Redmen defeated the Ryerson Rams by a score of 5-2.
Lacrosse
Entering its 11th season, the Redmen Lacrosse team competes in the fall in the Eastern Conference of the Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association (CUFLA) and generally plays an additional 2 to 3 NCAA exhibition games per season. The team has become one of the most successful varsity programs at McGill, having reached the Final Four in 3 of the past 4 seasons, including a trip to the National Championship in 2008 and an Eastern Conference Championship in 2007. The program has rostered players from 5 provinces and 20 US States, 16 of whom have been named All-Canadian at least once. The Redmen are coached by three former college lacrosse players in Tim Murdoch (Princeton), Sean Steinwald (Cornell), and Brendan Simeson (McGill), who were named CUFLA's "Coaching Staff of the Year" in 2008 and who also helped the Redmen receive back-to-back Harry Griffiths Trophies in 2008 and 2009 as McGill's best-run varsity program. The team practices out of Molson StadiumMolson Stadium
Percival Molson Memorial Stadium is an outdoor football stadium located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...
, with home games played at McGill's Forbes Field.
Soccer
The soccer program at McGill operates for a big part of the school year. On top of the regular CIS fall season there is a Quebec indoor season, which runs from January to mid March.Preparation the CIS season starts with try-outs in mid-August and several preseason games against NCAA teams.
Sailing
McGill's sailing program was founded in 1949, and the first regattas took place in Northern New England. Today, the team competes in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA), which itself is a part of the Intercollegiate Sailing AssociationIntercollegiate Sailing Association
The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association is a volunteer organization that serves as the governing authority for all sailing competition at colleges and universities throughout the United States and in some parts of Canada.-History:...
(ICSA). The team trains out of the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club (RStLYC) throughout the fall and competes in dinghies such as the collegiate 420 (dinghy)
420 (dinghy)
The International 420 Class Dinghy is a double-handed monohull planing dinghy with centreboard, bermuda rig and centre sheeting. The name describes the overall length of the boat in centimetres . The hull is fibreglass with internal buoyancy tanks. The 420 is equipped with spinnaker and optional...
and the Flying Junior
Flying Junior
thumb|Coen Gulcher helming one of the first Flying Juniors The International Flying Junior or FJ is a sailing dinghy which was originally designed in 1955 in the Netherlands by renowned boat designer Van Essen and Olympic sailor Conrad Gülcher. The FJ was built to serve as a training boat for the...
. Every spring, the Redmen attend the U.K. Team Racing Championships, the Wilson Trophy in West Kirby
West Kirby
West Kirby is a town on the north-west corner of the coast of the Wirral Peninsula, England, at the mouth of the River Dee across from the Point of Ayr in North Wales. To the north-east of the town lies Hoylake, with the suburbs of Grange and Newton to the east, and the village of Caldy to the...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.
Baseball
The baseball team plays in the Canadian Intercollegiate Baseball Association (CIBA). They have won two national championships (2006 & 2010), and have appeared in two national finals (2005 & 2008). The team plays out of Trudeau park in Cote St Luc. The program is run by head coach Ernie D'Alessandro.2005 hazing scandal
In October of 2005, the McGill administration cancelled the football team's season after confirmed reports of hazingHazing
Hazing is a term used to describe various ritual and other activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group....
involving sexual abuse
Sexual abuse
Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is the forcing of undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another. When that force is immediate, of short duration, or infrequent, it is called sexual assault. The offender is referred to as a sexual abuser or molester...
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