Final Standings

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
Rouge et Or de Laval	8	7	1	0	301	72	14
Carabins de Montréal	8	6	2	0	144	93	12
McGill Redmen	8	3	5	0	124	191	6
Concordia Stingers	8	2	6	0	121	262	4
Sherbrooke Vert et Or	8	2	6	0	135	207	4

Playoffs

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
02.11.2019	Laval	40	Concordia	8
02.11.2019	Montréal	39	McGill	6
	Finale
09.11.2019	Laval	10	Montréal	25

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
23.08.2019	Concordia	3	Montréal	10
25.08.2019	Laval	41	Sherbrooke	10
	Week 2
30.08.2019	McGill	40	Concordia	14
30.08.2019	Montréal	18	Sherbrooke	9
	Week 3
07.09.2019	McGill	4	Montréal	34
07.09.2019	Concordia	6	Laval	41
	Week 4
13.09.2019	Sherbrooke	16	McGill	14
14.09.2019	Montréal	23	Laval	18
	Week 5
21.09.2019	Concordia	37	Sherbrooke	35
22.09.2019	Laval	37	McGill	17
	Week 6
27.09.2019	Montréal	20	Concordia	17
28.09.2019	McGill	20	Sherbrooke	13
	Week 7
04.10.2019	Montréal	21	McGill	3
06.10.2019	Laval	74	Concordia	0
	Week 8
12.10.2019	McGill	3	Laval	39
12.10.2019	Sherbrooke	23	Montréal	15
	Week 9
19.10.2019	Sherbrooke	19	Concordia	20
20.10.2019	Laval	16	Montréal	3
	Week 10
26.10.2019	Concordia	17	McGill	23
26.10.2019	Sherbrooke	10	Laval	35

Report

Montréal won the 2019 RSEQ Quebec University title with a 25-10 triumph over Laval in the Final. They had stuttered towards the end ofthe regular season, losing their last two after winning their first six, which handed the regular season title to Laval, and also home advantage for the playoffs.

They made no mistake, however, once the knockout stages began, and took the title with the win against Laval after a convincing 39-6 defeat of McGill in the Semi-Finals.

About

RSEQ – Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec – is the governing body for all Student Sport in the French-speaking Province of Canada. The University Football League has five teams, playing an 8-game regular season, plus playoffs. McGill University are famour for playing one of the first ever games of American or Canadian Football, when they played Harvard in Massachusetts.

The Origins of American and Canadian Football in Universities

In 1874, Harvard with no opponent in America to play its “Boston Game” against, looked to McGill University in Montreal, which played Rugby. After one game in Harvard which the hosts won 3-0 in the Boston Game, abandoned after 22 minutes due to it being a rout, the following day the teams met under McGill’s Rugby rules, playing out a 0-0 tie.

Harvard liked the idea of a touchdown, as used in McGill’s Rugby Rules, so much they adopted it for their own game and persuaded the Elis of Yale to play against them using the rules in 1875, with Harvard winning 4-0.

References

Images

[1] RSEQ (2020) Signature-RSEQ-Francais-CMYK_czyozt [Internet] Available from: https://res.cloudinary.com/agence-hoffman/image/upload/c_fit,h_630,w_1200/v1576251135/RSEQ/Signature-RSEQ-Francais-CMYK_czyozt.png [Accessed 6 October 2020]

Websites

[2] RSEQ Statistiques (2020) Football Universitaire | Calenfrier / Resultats / Classement 2019 [Internet] Available from: http://www.sportetudiant-stats.com/universitaire/football/ [Accessed 6 October 2020]

Bibliography

[3] Professional Football Researchers Association (2011) “No Christian End!” The Early History of Professional Football. pg. 23-32. PFRA Publications. Connecticut.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Robert Burns. Judith Burns, Steve Hearn, Anton Pippo O’Grady, John Wills, John Morahan & John Kane.

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American & World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 6 October 2020

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