RSEQ University Football 1987

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
Bishop’s Gaiters	7	7	0	0	238	117	14
McGill Redmen	7	5	2	0	142	129	10
Queen’s Gaels	7	3	4	0	141	161	6
Carleton Ravens	7	3	4	0	102	152	6
Concordia Stingers	7	2	5	0	123	166	4
Ottawa Gee-Gees	7	1	6	0	113	139	2

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
1987	Queen’s Gaels	24	McGill Redmen	27
1987	Bishop’s Gaiters	39	Carleton	0
	Final
1987	Bishop’s Gaiters	16	McGill Redmen	32

RSEQ University Football 1988

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
*Bishop’s Gaiters	7	6	1	0	170	112	12
*Queen’s Gaels	7	5	2	0	160	103	10
*Ottawa Gee-Gees	7	4	3	0	142	115	8
*McGill Redmen	7	3	4	0	198	148	6
Concordia Stingers	7	3	4	0	129	130	6
Carleton Ravens	7	0	7	0	53	244	0

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
1988	Queen’s Gaels	16	Ottawa Gee-Gees	13
1988	Bishop’s Gaiters	44	McGill Redmen	2
	Final
1988	Bishop’s Gaiters	16	Queen’s Gaels	7

RSEQ University Football 1989

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
*Queen’s Gaels	7	7	0	0	217	73	14
*Ottawa Gee-Gees	7	5	2	0	192	103	10
*Concordia Stingers	7	4	3	0	153	110	8
*McGill Redmen	7	3	4	0	122	152	6
Bishop’s Gaiters	7	2	5	0	163	157	4
Carleton Ravens	7	0	7	0	42	289	0

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
1989	Ottawa	35	Concordia	16
1989	Queen’s Gaels	33	McGill Redmen	17
	Final
1989	Queen’s Gaels	39	Ottawa	18

RSEQ University Football 1990

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
*Bishop’s Gaiters	7	5	1	1	166	108	11
*Concordia Stingers	7	5	2	0	142	70	10
*Queen’s Gaels	7	4	2	1	146	81	9
*Ottawa Gee-Gees	7	3	4	0	116	150	6
McGill Redmen	7	2	5	0	129	148	4
Carleton Ravens	7	1	6	0	83	225	2

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
1990	Concordia Stingers	15	Queen’s Gaels	37
1990	Bishop’s Gaiters	30	Ottawa Gee-Gees	7
	Final
1990	Bishop’s Gaiters	20	Queen’s Gaels	9

Report

From 1987 to 1990 in the RSEQ – Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec – University Football League, Bishop’s won twice (1988 and 1990), Queen’s once (1989) and McGill Redmen the other (1987)

The Queen’s University Gaels from Kingston, Ontario, are named after an old name for the Irish – Gaels – and won the RSEQ Championship in 1989 after an unblemished 7-0 regular season record and then two victories in the playoffs.

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 had six teams, playing a 7-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 |Classements depuis 1987 [Internet] Available from:  http://www.sportetudiant-stats.com/universitaire/football/classements-1.php [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.

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Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

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Last Updated: 6 October 2020

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