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14-719: The champion is awarded the Dunsmore Cup and moves on to compete in a national semi-final Bowl game against one of the other three CIS football conferences. It is governed by the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec . The present constitution of the RSEQ was founded in 2001, following the departure of Queen's University and University of Ottawa from the Ontario-Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference (OQIFC). First simply known as

28-410: A 1915 Engineering graduate. This Canadian football -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Quebec -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Uteck Bowl The Uteck Bowl is one of the two semifinal bowls of U Sports football , Canada's national competition for university teams that play Canadian football . It

42-716: Is held in the easternmost of the two semifinal venues. The Uteck Bowl champion moves on to face the Mitchell Bowl champion for the Vanier Cup . It was named for Larry Uteck , a former professional football player and university coach who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2002. The Atlantic Bowl traditionally saw the Atlantic University Sport champions face a champion from another conference at Huskies Stadium in Halifax. However, in

56-606: The Bishop's Gaiters , Collège Militaire Royal , Loyola College Warriors, Macdonald College Aggies, and St. Patrick's College (part of the University of Ottawa but team amalgamated with Carleton Ravens in 1967) joined a new Ottawa-St.Lawrence Intercollegiate Athletic Association. In 1971, intercollegiate sport in Central Canada completely re-organised with the division of athletic associations along provincial lines and

70-618: The Yates Cup , donated by H. B. Yates of McGill University in 1898 and awarded to the league champion annually. Teams competing since that first year were McGill Redmen , Queen's Golden Gaels , and the Toronto Varsity Blues . In following years, they were joined by Ottawa Gee-Gees (1905–1912), Royal Military College (1913), Western Ontario Mustangs (1929–1970), McMaster Marauders (1952–1953, 1968–1970), and Waterloo Warriors (1968–1970). In addition, beginning in 1953,

84-656: The 1974 and 1975 seasons, Toronto Varsity Blues. In 1980, the OQIFC re-organised again and the West division became the Ontario Universities Athletics Association and the East division retained the Ontario-Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference name without the need of a division. Following the 2000 season, the University of Ottawa and Queen's University withdrew from the OQIFC and joined

98-747: The OUA football conference leaving the OQIFC with only Quebec teams so it became known as the Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference (QIFC). In 2004, the QIFC was formally renamed the Quebec University Football League (QUFL). University football programs in the QUFL are: Dunsmore Cup The Dunsmore Cup ( French : Coupe Dunsmore ) is a Canadian sports trophy , presented annually to

112-670: The Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference (QIFC), it was renamed the Quebec University Football League ( Ligue de football universitaire du Québec ) in 2004. The history of university football in Quebec goes back to the early foundations of football in Canada. The earliest interuniversity football league was the Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union (CIRFU) which was formed in late 1897 and began competition in 1898. The CIRFU competed for

126-522: The Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference (later the Quebec University Football League and now part of RSEQ), continues to be awarded as the Quebec conference's championship. The winner of the Dunsmore Cup goes on to play in either the Uteck Bowl or the Mitchell Bowl national semi-final, depending on annual rotations. The Dunsmore Cup was donated by Bob Dunsmore of Queen's University ,

140-576: The Quebec University Athletic Association (QUAA) was formed but collapsed following the 1973 season. In 1974, the remaining football teams from the Ontario and Quebec provincial associations were combined into the new Ontario-Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference (OQIFC) with East and West Divisions. All Quebec-based teams were in the East along with Carleton Ravens , Ottawa Gee-Gees, Queen's Golden Gaels, and, for

154-530: The Uteck Bowl and the Mitchell Bowl rotate on a six-year cycle, so that in each cycle each of the four conferences hosts and visits every other conference once. With the 2020 game cancelled, the cycle was delayed by one year with the 2020 teams playing in 2021. The participants and sites for future Uteck Bowl games are listed below: To date, the Uteck Bowl games hosted by Quebec have been played at

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168-617: The interests of competitive fairness, the Atlantic Bowl was replaced by the Mitchell Bowl , its venue, like the Churchill Bowl that had paralleled it for so long, rotating among two of the conference champions. Larry Uteck was a longtime football coach at Saint Mary's University and, at the time, the university's athletic director. It was decided that the Churchill Bowl would be retired, the Mitchell Bowl would take

182-593: The place of the Churchill Bowl, and a new championship would be named in Uteck's memory. Thus, the Uteck Bowl formally replaced the Atlantic Bowl. The inaugural Uteck Bowl was played at Huskies Stadium , where two-time defending Vanier Cup champions and home team Saint Mary's Huskies defeated the Simon Fraser Clan . The 2020 game was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The teams and host sites of

196-674: The winner of the university-level football competition conducted by Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ), the governing body for all student sports in the province of Quebec . The RSEQ university football conference, one of four within U Sports , was known as the Quebec University Football League before the 2011 season. The Cup was first awarded in 1980 to the winner of the Ontario-Quebec Interuniversity Football Conference and, upon re-organization into

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