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Teams on the chopping block include ice
hockey, fencing, track and field
By Andrew Bucholtz, Assistant Sports Editor Men's hockey captain Jeff Ovens said he is disappointed with the 14th-place ranking the University's Review of Athletics and Recreation gave men's hockey. "At first, I was just shocked," he said. "When it settled in, I was just really worried, because we have guys that are coming in as first-years that are committing to the program. I was worried for those guys." The University's Review of Athletics and Recreation proposes reducing the number of fully-funded interuniversity varsity teams to between 10 and 16, down from the present 24. According to the review's recommendations, more funding would be channelled to the remaining teams to improve their chances of success. Ovens said he thinks the idea behind the
review is sound.
"I think it's a great step forward," he said. "In order to compete, Queen's needs to take drastic measures, and I think this is the first step towards putting together a competitive athletic program." |
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Posted By Claude Scilley
Make no mistake. The Queen's Golden Gaels are mindful of the fact they lost a football game last year to the Waterloo Warriors. The circumstances surrounding that game and tomorrow's match at Richardson Stadium are so eerily similar they almost can't help it. A year ago, the Gaels started the year undefeated, then lost a close game to an opponent that traditionally got the best of them. They looked at Waterloo as a team against which they could get back on track. Instead they got beat, losing on the last play of the game to a team that ultimately wouldn't lose to anybody else but Toronto. It was a devastating blow, one that probably set the Gaels' progress back a month. This year, the Gaels started the season undefeated and they're now coming off losing a close game to an opponent that traditionally gets the best of them. Here, again, is Waterloo, looking very much like a team the Gaels should be able to defeat. |
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The hardcore fans of the CIS discuss their
postgame thoughts of the Ottawa/Queen's
here.
Click on the link and read the posts. Even a
mention of the "Elberg" years.
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In the past few years, College Colours has
published a very entertaining Top 27 which
looks to rank all football programs across the
country on a weekly basis. We included the
poll last year in our newsletter and will
continue to do so this year
Please click here to see the poll This year, for the first time, the hard core and
well informed fans of www.cisfootball.org
have published their first initial poll. This
weeks poll was conducted by over 30
members
with wide representation from across the
country.
Please click here to see the results Of course, the Official poll as conducted by
15 members of the media was also
published this week.
Click here for the
Official Poll
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Being too old for the Great Homecoming Gong
Show is just as well.
It's all about the game on this end, always has been and always will be. Now, there is a 70% chance it will rain Saturday when our Queen's Golden Gaels take the Waterloo Warriors behind the woodshed at Richardson Stadium. So the Big Yellow Guys better score early and often for the sake of the members of the Class of 2011. Those Frosh Week coveralls aren't waterproof, so standing out in the rain for a prolonged stretch without having a chance to do an Oil Thigh after a touchdown can make for some freezing froshies. Take the afternoon of Oct. 19, 1996. Playing Laval on a typical Kingston fall Saturday (i.e., it started pouring shortly after dawn and didn't let up), the Gaels didn't get into the end zone until the fourth quarter (Paul Correale on a 78-yard run). By that point, my arms were too numb to be raised in celebration. The coveralls had soaked up so much water that I probably arrived at the stadium weighing 195 and left weighing 210.* |
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