SFU football
How to Play The Pawn’s Special Game
April 1, 2025By: Your friends at The Pawn <3 Are you on the hunt for a fun way to waste time? Never fear — The Pawn is here! After multiple months of testing, we’ve come up with the perfect game for you to play during the extraordinarily lengthy 10-minute break that you have between your 8:30 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. lecture in West Mall, and your 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. “seminar” (or should we say syrup-making session?) in Blusson Hall. To make sure this game works perfectly, every current staff member of The Peak Pawn was invited to the office to…
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The epic highs and lows of SFU football
February 25, 2025By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer For over 50 years, one of SFU’s shining athletic qualities was the school football team. For much of its history it was the only Canadian university to play in American gridiron football competition. That all…
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SFU confirms discontinuation of its football program
February 3, 2025By: Phone Min Thant, Staff Writer On January 15, SFU officially confirmed the discontinuation of its football program in the 2025 Athletics and Recreation Strategy. This decision followed the discontinuation of the program in 2023. When SFU initially announced the…
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“Where football belongs:” Grey Cup Festival illuminates BC football
December 3, 2024By: Izzy Cheung, Sports Editor and Kaja Antic, Sports Writer Although the BC Lions encountered an early exit in the CFL playoffs this year, Vancouver still got to enjoy the energy of playoff football. From November 10 to 17, Vancouver…
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SFU’s sports archive
March 18, 2024By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor Men’s basketball SFU took on UBC for the first time in any sport at West Gym on November 26, 1965, winning 61–51 in front of 2,200 fans. Coach John Kootnekoff made the inaugural 1965 team…
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Athletes are more than their entertainment value
September 29, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer, and Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor Whenever I overhear friends and family talking about last night’s hockey game or an upcoming playoff series, it reminds me of the way I would describe characters in a dramatic…
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The extended timeline of the SFU football team’s cancellation
September 10, 2023By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor Nearly four months after SFU unexpectedly announced it was without a conference to play in for the 2023 season, Theresa Hanson, SFU’s athletic director since 2015, agreed to depart from her role at the university.…
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SFU football loses injunction
May 30, 2023By: Isabella Urbani, Staff Writer On May 11, the BC Supreme Court denied an injunction made by five SFU football players to reinstate the school’s varsity program. SFU announced the termination of its 57-year football program on April 4. This…
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SFU alum joins the Calgary Stampeders
March 31, 2023By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor Former SFU quarterback J.R. Davies is set to embark on his first season as the running backs coach for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). A running back is an offensive player…
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The Rundown
January 9, 2023By: Simran Sarai, Sports Writer Men’s basketball The men’s team started December with a 75–61 loss against Western Washington. In what was their first Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) opener of the campaign, SFU recorded 13 blocks, a league-high since…
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