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The Unsung Heroes of Subway Bowl 2013: Our four varsity coaches’ picks for...
VANCOUVER — Subway Bowl’s championship Saturday is a time for the biggest stars in the B.C. high school football world to shine their brightest. It’s their night to find that next gear, the one which...
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Irons the man for Bobcats, Mouat superstar RB re-writes record book en route...
ABBOTSFORD — There were options aplenty for Maleek Irons, who wears more individual accomplishments than any running back in the history of B.C. high school football. In the end, however, the...
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Lenius, Irons, Wilkinson join NCAA D-1 ranks, B.C.’s NCAA grid numbers are on...
SURREY — Wednesday was one of those days when you took time to truly appreciate just how much growth there has been at the top end of B.C. high school football’s player-development ladder. When...
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UBC football: Marcus makes it a Davis double, joins Terrell as 2014...
VANCOUVER — First it scored a TD, and now it’s got its MD. In the span of just over a month, a UBC Thunderbirds football program which was tabbed for potential extinction by its own athletic department...
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Marcus Davis
MARCUS DAVIS FOOTBALL SCHOOL: Mt. Douglas (Victoria) FRESHMAN’S FUTURE: UBC VICTORIA — It didn’t take the most trusted and seasoned pair of eyes currently covering the world of CIS football very long...
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UBC FOOTBALL 2014: Talent abounds, but coach and QB steadfast in team-first...
VANCOUVER — In the transitory world of Canadian university athletics, one ruled by the omnipresent five-year window of playing eligibility, there is no mutual exclusivity between the quality of a...
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Lack of finish put bleak end on season opener as football ‘Birds fall by 10...
Three-for-three in the red zone, but all field goals instead of touchdowns. Quarterback hurries instead of sacks. And too many penalties. The 2014 UBC Thunderbirds have enough talent that on many...
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Football ‘Birds homecoming Saturday presents big challenge as No. 2-ranked...
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds don’t have any problems identifying why they came out on the short end of 10-point loss in their Canada West season-opening game last Friday in Regina. Come Saturday,...
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Groundhog Day for UBC ground game, ‘Birds fall to Manitoba, sit winless at...
If you had to pick one graduate of Victoria’s Mt. Douglas Secondary Rams to make the biggest impact in Saturday’s key Canada West football game between the UBC Thunderbirds and the No. 9-ranked...
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Freshman phenom Davis has break-out day, helps lead UBC to first win of 2014...
VANCOUVER — The Canada West football season reached its amazingly swift midway point on Saturday in Vancouver with the home team looking, in the second half, like a group ready to chase a national...
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A bumbled fumble call? UBC head coach Olson says: “We had it, they said we...
If you’re a UBC football fan big on conspiracy theories, you might have thought something was afoot in Saskatoon on Saturday night where the Thunderbirds went battling for their playoff lives against...
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Quest for quad-squad status would earn Mt. Doug’s football Rams place in...
VICTORIA — This was supposed to be the season that the Mt. Douglas Rams senior varsity football team came back down to earth. But eight weeks into a regular season in which the Victoria school sits...
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Another tough day for B.C.’s university football teams: Clan and ‘Birds each...
It’s been a tough football season for fans of the Simon Fraser Clan and UBC Thunderbirds. On Saturday, both went winless at home, UBC’s utterly disappointing campaign coming to an end with a 38-18 loss...
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UBC football fires its head coach, as ex Vanier Cup-winning QB Shawn Olson is...
VANCOUVER — He was in the process of bringing the Shrum Bowl back from the grave, and it was something Shawn Olson spoke about with great pride as the 2014 Canada West football season was set to dawn...
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Penn State QB O’Connor leaves Happy Valley huddle, transfer marks start of...
VANCOUVER — Blake Nill is wasting no time in his attempt to turn the UBC Thunderbirds into a CIS football powerhouse. The recently-hired Nill made a blockbuster signing on Thursday, announcing that the...
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Joltin’ Jesse bolts for Bisons, star Mission QB Walker packs his jets for...
MISSION — This past season, Jesse Walker played the role of an option quarterback to near perfection, carrying his Mission Roadrunners all the way to the 2014 Subway Bowl B.C. Double A football...
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UBC Football: Q-&-A with coach Blake Nill on the eve of the ‘Birds clash with...
There are two more sleeps remaining until the start of the Blake Nill-era at UBC. With his first Point Grey fall camp behind him, Nill and his young charges left earlier this week for Laval and...
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Blake Nill-era opens in style for UBC, football ‘Birds get historic win at...
It’s been a very long time since UBC Thunderbirds football fans have dared to dream about things as big as winning conference championships and being in the hunt for the Vanier Cup. Who knows? That...
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Dinos flex muscle, Calgary simply too physical for UBC to handle in its...
CALGARY — Blake Nill built a powerhouse football program at the University of Calgary, and those Dinos, both deep and veteran-laden, showed Friday evening that their architect’s work has a lasting...
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HOMECOMING 2015: UBC’s biggest football crowd in a quarter-century goes home...
When Blake Nill was hired this past winter as the new head coach of the UBC Thunderbirds football team, one of the first things he referenced in terms of a drawing card to leave his post at the...
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How about those ‘Birds? No. 10 UBC shows grit with shoot-out road win at No....
There was something pretty special about the atmosphere Saturday afternoon in Winnipeg. It was the No. 10 UBC Thunderbirds and the No. 7 and host Manitoba Bison clashing in a battle of two Canada West...
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Historic night in Saskatoon: UBC moves to 5-2 after first road win vs....
The UBC Thunderbirds are a win away from clinching a Canada West opening-round home playoff date after an historic Friday in Saskatoon. Quarterback Michael O’Connor went 20-of-31 for 449 yards,...
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UBC coach Nill ready for growing pains as his young ‘Birds grow up in a hurry...
Blake Nill knows he’s coaching a young and rapidly-improving football team, but the veteran CIS skipper, who authored incredible success at previous stops at both St. Mary’s and Calgary, also knows...
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Terrell Davis: Tackle breaker to tackle maker, UBC’s linebacker creates new...
VANCOUVER — Terrell Davis admits that it was a conversation he didn’t think he’d be having when the UBC Thunderbirds hired Blake Nill, one of the most proven head coaches in all of Canadian...
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Bottom line for football ‘Birds was a win, but with Bisons back Nov. 7, UBC’s...
VANCOUVER — When the Manitoba Bisons broke the huddle for their first offensive series Saturday afternoon at Thunderbird Stadium, and it’s prolific quarterback Theo Deezar was not the guy ready to take...
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UBC’s Super Weekend: Dedicated core of ‘Birds staffers puts the Blue-and-Gold...
VANCOUVER — Back in the late spring, when schedules were officially released for the 2015-16 Canada West sports season, those working behind the scenes at Western Canada’s largest university athletic...
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Hardy Cup is next: ‘Birds demolish Manitoba, turns sights to No. 1-ranked...
VANCOUVER — As far as filming a commercial of themselves, the UBC Thunderbirds football team couldn’t have presented their essence in a better, more dominant light than they did Saturday when they...
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Hardy Cup heroes: Coach Nill left speechless after underdog UBC stuns...
In the aftermath of a massive upset win, as he prepared to depart McMahon Stadium late Saturday afternoon, UBC Thunderbirds head coach Blake Nill was asked to describe his emotions following a 34-26...
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UBC football completes impossible dream, Vanier Cup win caps coach Nill’s...
The UBC Thunderbirds climbed to the peak of the Canadian university football world on Saturday, winning a national championship with a roster so young and an ascent so swift that simply watching them...
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Mt. Doug QB Kremler may only be in Grade 9, but Rams’ pivot already sees big...
VANCOUVER — The Mt. Douglas Rams’ post-game locker room last Saturday afternoon was the picture of understated understanding. Sure, B.C.’s No. 3-ranked Triple A high school football team had just come...
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