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Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Confirmed - 2015 Vanier Cup will be in Quebec City!

from Sportsnet.ca:


Laval University to play host to 2015 Vanier Cup


Laval University will host the 2015 Vanier Cup for the fourth time in seven years. (Jacques Boissinot/CP)


Laval University in Quebec City will play host to the 2015 Vanier Cup game.

Laval’s Telus Stadium will be the venue for the Canadian university football national final for the fourth time in seven years.

Each time, they have drawn crowds larger than the stadium’s seating capacity of 12,750, including 18,543 at the 2013 Vanier Cup game.

There were 22,649 at Percival Molson Stadium for the Vanier Cup on Nov. 29 when the University of Montreal Carabins won their first national title with a 20-19 win over the McMaster Marauders.

Canadian Interuniversity Sport also announced that the 2015 Mitchell bowl will be between the Quebec and Ontario conference champions, while Canada West will play the Maritimes in the Uteck Bowl.

Monday, December 01, 2014

Vanier 2014 - another success

Good times - more info to follow.

No rookie of the year as no newbie was brave enough to come with us.

But Shawze clearly wins the Celebrity Sighting of the Tour, meeting le petit gars de Shawinigan on this way to meet up with the rest of us.


Vanier Cup 2015 - where will it be?



Quebec or Ottawa to get next Cup

Ottawa Sun
By: Tim Baines

MONTREAL -- It looks like next year's Vanier Cup will be in either Quebec City or Ottawa.
Both OSEG, which owns the Ottawa RedBlacks, and the University of Laval have submitted bids to host the event, with a decision expected by mid-December.

"The concept from Ottawa is way bigger than football," said CIS CEO Pierre Lafontaine.

"We could host men's and women's hockey, basketball, volleyball, soccer. The whole discussion with them is way more than football. It's in the next 10 years, what can we do?"

For this year's Vanier Cup, McMaster had to pay its own bills -- getting here, hotel and food. There was no CIS compensation.

"I'm going to say it like this, winning is expensive," said Lafontaine, who added it's expected that funding to teams could be added by 2016