Tag: Western Mustangs

Kevin Mital is hoping to add a Vanier Cup ring Saturday to the greatest individual honour in Canadian university football. The Laval receiver was named the Hec Crighton Trophy winner as the most outstanding player in U Sports football Thursday at the RBC Convention Centre in London. The six-foot-one, 215-pounder from Saint-Hubert, Que., is the […]

Laval has destroyed Western’s dream Vanier Cup party. The Mustangs scored 17 first-quarter points, but the best offence in the country was held to a single field goal the rest of the way in a 27-20 Mitchell Bowl defeat Saturday at cold and windy Western Alumni Stadium. The Rouge et Or will take on the […]

Laval’s touchdown-maker Kevin Mital has great hands and a big mouth.

The Mitchell Bowl between Western and Laval is the game of the year in Canadian university football.

The tables have turned. After heartbreaking losses in the 2018 Vanier Cup and 2010 national semifinal to Laval in Quebec City, the Western Mustangs finally get to face the Rouge et Or on home turf in the Mitchell Bowl Saturday, 3:07 p.m. at Western Alumni Stadium. The two university football powerhouses had previously met only […]

Undefeated. Ranked No. 1 in the country. And now, one win away from a berth in the first ever Vanier Cup held in London.

Keon Edwards is a man of his word. The Western running back said last week Queen’s played football a lot like Western, only the Mustangs did it better. Then, he ran for a career-best 260 yards, scored a late touchdown and was named MVP of the Yates Cup for the second straight year in a […]

Turn down the heat.

HAMILTON — Before Keon Edwards received the newly-renamed Larry Haylor Award, his coach Greg Marshall told him how thrilled the late Western legend would be that he had won it.