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Hawks win in blow-out
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Another team from Toronto, another lop-sided victory. The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks football team won their second-straight game on Saturday afternoon, crushing the York Lions 68-14. For the Hawks, the win marked the seventh consecutive victory over York. For the Lions, it extended their three-year long losing streak to 23 games. “Our goal was to…
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Hawks rebound vs. Blues
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After starting their season with a blow-out loss to the Western Mustangs and a heart-breaking defeat at the hands of the McMaster Marauders, the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks men’s football team could not have asked for a better opponent than the University of Toronto Varsity Blues for game three. Coming into the game, the perennially…
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Golden Hawks back on track
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What’s the best way to cure an 0-2 start? A date with the University of Toronto Varsity Blues. The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks men’s football team learned that first-hand on Saturday night, as the purple and gold crushed the Blues 37-6 for their first win of the season. This comes after the Hawks opened the…
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Football Hawks fall to 0-2
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Hamilton, Ont.- A last minute lead was inches away. The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks men’s football team had driven 85 yards to bring themselves inside the one yard line, down 26-22. However, second-year running back Anton Bennett fumbled on the goal line and with 38 seconds left, the Hawks’ comeback bid had ended. “[The loss]…
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Behind the Hawk: Alex Anthony
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It’s the semi final game; winner advances to the World Junior Football Championship gold medal match-up. 16 seconds remaining, Team Canada is down by five. Wearing the maple leaf, Alex Anthony gets his hands on a pass, breaks a series of tackles, and scores a 40-yard touchdown to win the game. “That was definitely one…
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Back to the drawing board
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“We’re a lot better than that.” That was the message that Laurier’s manager of football operations and head coach Gary Jeffries emphatically instilled in his team after they were embarrassed 46-1 at the hands of the Western Mustangs on Wednesday night. The season-opening defeat was the largest margin of defeat the Hawks have suffered since…
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They lost their season for this?
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As the 2010 Ontario University Athletics (OUA) football season gets underway it’s difficult not to feel sorry for the young men who would have been taking the field for the University of Waterloo’s (UW) Waterloo Warriors. After nine of the 62 players on the UW roster tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, the school decided…
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Golden Hawks fall to Western 46-1
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A few names may have changed but the result remained the same, as the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks men’s football team was embarrassed once again by the Western Mustangs on Wednesday night. The Hawks fell 46-1, marking their worst defeat in 41 years and their fifth consecutive loss to their rivals from London in a…
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Football Hawks rank sixth in pre-season top 10
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The pre-season Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) football top 10 was released earlier today and the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks find themselves ranked as the sixth-best team in the nation. The number-six ranking is a spot higher than where the Hawks started the season a year ago, but once again they are the second-highest seed coming…
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Laurier looks to defeat Western in season-opener
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In their season opener on Sept. 1, the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks football team will look to do something they haven’t done since 2006 – beat the Western Mustangs. Since their 20-15 win in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) semi-finals back in November of 2006, the Hawks have lost four straight games to their rivals…
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