Michael Grobe
TORONTO (February 11, 2010) – Queen’s Football has been selected as one of the top three finalists eligible to receive Ontario’s 2009 Team of the Year Award presented by the Sport Alliance of Ontario.
The final winner will be announced at the 2009 Ontario Sport Awards Ceremony. The Ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 15 at 6:00pm at the Atlantis Pavillion at Ontario Place in Toronto.
The Queen’s Gaels were the top team in Canadian University Sport (CIS) football after winning their fourth Vanier Cup. The Gaels rallied from an 18-point deficit at halftime, the largest in Vanier Cup history, by scoring 26 unanswered points to win 33-31 over the Calgary Dinos.
Gaels quarterback Danny Brannagan of Burlington, Ont. was named the game’s MVP after completing 17 of 33 passes for 286 yards and three touchdowns.
The Vanier Cup win capped off an extraordinary run for the Gaels who went 7-1 in the regular season, and then marched to the Vanier Cup with a 33-31 upset victory over No. 1 ranked Laval Rouge et Or in the Mitchell Bowl. One week earlier the Gaels knocked off rival Western in the Yates Cup to claim the OUA Championship. That game, which featured two of the country’s top quarterbacks, saw Brannagan dust Western’s Michael Faulds, 43-39 in one of the most memorable games in CIS history.
Queen’s Football was already voted the fourth top team by the Canadian Press finishing behind the 2009 Gold Medal Canadian World Junior Team, the 2009 Grey Cup Champion, Montreal Alouettes and the 2009 OHL Champion Windsor Spitfires
