The 2010 CIS football season began on August 31, 2010 with the

Windsor Lancers The Windsor Lancers are the varsity athletic teams that represent the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The school's varsity program supports 9 different sports. Their mascot is a lancer and the team's colours are blue and gold. ...

hosting the

Ottawa Gee-Gees The Ottawa Gee-Gees are the athletic teams that represent the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario. The Gee-Gees won the national football championship, the Vanier Cup, in 1975 and 2000, while also appearing in the game in the 1970, 1980, an ...

and the defending

Vanier Cup The Vanier Cup (french: Coupe Vanier) is the championship of Canadian university football. It is organized by U Sports football and is currently played between the winners of the Uteck Bowl and the Mitchell Bowl. It is named after Georges Vanier ...

champion

Queen's Golden Gaels The Queen's Gaels (also known as the Queen's Golden Gaels) is the Athletics program representing Queen's University at Kingston in Kingston, Ontario Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located on the north-eastern end of Lake Ontari ...

visiting the

McMaster Marauders The McMaster Marauders are the athletic teams that represent McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Athletics at McMaster is currently managed by the university's student affairs, under their athletics & recreation department. The unive ...

. The season concluded on November 27 at the

PEPS The ("Laval University Sports and Physical Education Complex"), usually called PEPS for short, is a sports complex located in Quebec City, Quebec, on the Université Laval campus. PEPS opened in 1970 and includes an outdoor stadium, an indoor ...

stadium in

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with the

Laval Rouge et Or The Laval Rouge et Or (, ''Red and Gold'') are the athletic teams that represent Université Laval, located in Quebec City, Quebec. Home games are all held in the PEPS indoor and outdoor sports facilities. Varsity teams Laval Rouge et Or teams co ...

winning the 46th Vanier Cup, a record tying sixth championship for the school. In this year, 25

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s in

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played

CIS football U Sports football is the highest level of amateur play of Canadian football and operates under the auspices of U Sports (formerly Canadian Interuniversity Sport). Twenty-seven teams from Canadian universities are divided into four athletic conf ...

, the highest level of

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Canadian football Canadian football () is a sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's scoring area ( ...

Notable events

After their successful application into the

NCAA Division II NCAA Division II (D-II) is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). It offers an alternative to both the larger and better-funded Division I and to the scholarship-free environmen ...

, the

Simon Fraser Clan The SFU Red Leafs or Simon Fraser Red Leafs teams (formerly the Simon Fraser Clan) represent Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of NCAA Division II and are the only Canadian university affiliate ...

left the

Canada West Universities Athletic Association Canada West is a regional membership association for universities in Western Canada which assists in co-ordinating competition between their university level athletic programs and providing contact information, schedules, results, and releases abo ...

to join the

Great Northwest Athletic Conference The Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. It has historically operated in the northwestern United States, but ...

, leaving Canada West with six teams. The Clan, whose athletic programs were moved from the NAIA to CIS as a temporary refuge (up to that point, the Clan was to compete only against American universities), will continue to play football under Canadian (and CIS) rules when they play the

UBC Thunderbirds The UBC Thunderbirds are the athletic teams that represent the University of British Columbia in the University Endowment Lands just outside the city limits of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In Canadian intercollegiate competition, the Thu ...

in their annual cross-town rivalry matchup in October, but will otherwise play

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

under the NCAA's rules. The

Waterloo Warriors The Waterloo Warriors are the athletic teams that represent the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The Warriors have found success over certain spans in football, hockey, rugby, golf and basketball among others, and the Warrio ...

have suspended its football operations this season, following a steroid investigation the previous season that had led to all 65 members of its team tested for steroids in March, with 3 positive results. Charges against the three Warriors players testing positive for

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by the RCMP are still pending. A further round of testing also saw players from the

and the

Acadia Axemen The Acadia Axemen and Axewomen are the men's and women's athletic teams that represent Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. The on-campus sports facilities used by Axemen teams include Raymond Field for various field sports and A ...

suspended for doping violations, though both universities will still field teams for the season.

Schedule

Montreal vs. Bishop's game on 2 October 2010 was postponed to the following day due to severe rain and flooding in the

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region. *Laurier forfeits win due to ineligible player.

Standings

Championships

The Vanier Cup is played between the champions of the Mitchell Bowl and the

Uteck Bowl The Uteck Bowl is one of the two semifinal bowls of U Sports football, Canada's national competition for university teams that play Canadian football. It is held in the easternmost of the two semifinal venues. The Uteck Bowl champion moves on to f ...

, the national semi-final games. In 2010, according to the rotating schedule, the

Dunsmore Cup The Dunsmore Cup (french: Coupe Dunsmore) is a Canadian sports trophy, presented annually to the winner of the university-level football competition conducted by Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ), the governing body for all student sport ...

Quebec championship team will meet the Ontario conference's

Yates Cup The Yates Cup (french: La Coupe Yates) is a Canadian sports trophy, presented annually to the winner of the Ontario University Athletics football conference of U Sports. It is the oldest still-existing football trophy in North America, dating back ...

champion for the Uteck Bowl. The winners of the Canada West conference

Hardy Trophy The Hardy Trophy is a Canadian sport trophy, presented annually to the winner of the Canada West Universities Athletic Association Football Conference of U Sports, the country's governing body for university athletics. It is named for Evan Hard ...

will host the Atlantic conference

Loney Bowl The Jewett Trophy is a Canadian sports trophy, in honour of Dr. B. L. Jewett, presented annually to the winner of the Atlantic University Sport Football Conference of U Sports. Unlike the other three conference championship games, the game in w ...

champions for the Mitchell Bowl.

Playoff bracket

Awards and Rankings

Top 10

Ranks in ''italics'' are teams not ranked in the top 10 poll but received votes. NR = Not Ranked, received no votes. Week 2 in CIS poll is Week 1 in Player of the Week poll.

Players of the Week

Post-Season Awards

All-Canadian Team

First Team

;Offence :

Brad Sinopoli Bradley Sinopoli (born April 14, 1988) is a former Canadian football wide receiver who played for nine years in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was originally a quarterback with the Calgary Stampeders before being converted to wide receive ...

, QB, Ottawa : Rotrand Sené, RB, Montreal :

Adrian Charles Adrian Owen Charles (31 July 1926 – 10 April 2013) was an Australian Anglican bishop, who served as Assistant bishop for the Western Region in the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane from 1983 to 1992, and as Bishop to the Australian Defence Force ...

, RB, Regina :

Simon Charbonneau-Campeau Simon Charbonneau-Campeau (born May 2, 1988) is a former Canadian football wide receiver. He was selected 25th overall by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the 2012 CFL Draft and was signed on May 30, 2012. After the 2011 CIS season, he was ranked as t ...

, WR, Sherbrooke :

Jade Etienne Jade Etienne (born October 11, 1989 in Regina, Saskatchewan) was a Canadian football wide receiver. In the Canadian Football League’s Amateur Scouting Bureau December rankings, he was ranked as the 15th best player for players eligible in the ...

, WR, Saskatchewan : Matthew Bolduc, IR, Ottawa : Alexandre Poirier, IR, Sherbrooke : Justin Glover, C, McMaster :

Matthew O'Donnell Monsignor Matthew O'Donnell MA, BD, DPh was an Irish priest who served as the 26th president of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. He was born in Mungret, Co Limerick, in 1932 and studied at St Mary's College, Galway, before moving to begin his s ...

, OT, Queen's :

Patrick Neufeld Patrick Neufeld (born December 26, 1988) is a professional Canadian football offensive lineman for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He is a two-time Grey Cup champion having won the 107th Grey Cup and 108th Grey ...

, OT, Saskatchewan :

Matthew Norman Matthew James Norman (born 17 September 1986) is an Australian man who was convicted in Indonesia for drug trafficking as a member of the Bali Nine. In 2005, Norman was arrested in a room at the Melasti Hotel in Kuta together with three others. ...

, G, Western Ontario :

Ben Heenan Ben Heenan (born February 5, 1990) is a Canadian born former American football guard who played for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL) in 2015. He also played with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of Canadian Football League ...

, G, Saskatchewan ;Defence : Dan Schutte, DT, Saint Mary's : Sébastien Tétreault, DT, Ottawa : Arnaud Gascon-Nadon, DE, Laval : David Ménard, DE, Montreal : Henoc Muamba, LB, St. Francis Xavier : Frédéric Plesius, LB, Laval :

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, LB, Wilfrid Laurier :

Bryce McCall Bryce McCall (born August 4, 1988, in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian football defensive back most recently for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. After the 2011 CIS season, he was ranked as the eighth best p ...

, FS, Saskatchewan :

Craig Butler Craig Butler (born December 19, 1988) is a former professional Canadian football defensive back and current special teams coordinator and assistant defensive backs coach for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played ...

, HB, Western Ontario : Maxime Bérubé, HB, Laval : Jamir Walker, CB, Regina : Bradley Daye, CB, Mount Allison ;Special Teams :

Christopher Milo Christopher Milo (born November 2, 1986) is a former professional Canadian football placekicker. He was drafted 30th overall by the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the 2011 CFL Draft and signed with the team on June 1, 2011. He played CIS football fo ...

, P, Laval : Aaron Ifield, K, Calgary : Raphaël Gagné, RET, Sherbrooke

Second Team

;Offence :

Laurence Nixon Laurence is an English and French given name (usually female in French and usually male in English). The English masculine name is a variant of Lawrence and it originates from a French form of the Latin ''Laurentius'', a name meaning "man from ...

, QB, Saskatchewan : Nick FitzGibbon, RB, Guelph : Jerimy Hipperson, RB, Western Ontario : Cyril Adjeitey, WR, Ottawa :

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, WR, Mount Allison :

Liam Mahoney Liam Mahoney (born December 13, 1987) is a professional Canadian football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He was drafted 41st overall by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the 2011 CFL Draft, but was released during training camp. He subse ...

, IR, Concordia :

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, IR, Regina : Nicholas Ternovatsky, C, Alberta :

Paul Swiston Paul Swiston (born May 26, 1989 in Calgary, Alberta) is a professional Canadian football offensive lineman who is currently a free agent. In the CFL’s Amateur Scouting Bureau final rankings, he was ranked as the 15th best player for players eligi ...

, OT, Calgary :

Anthony Barrette Anthony Barrette (born April 22, 1986) is a former Canadian football offensive lineman who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL). In the CFL's Amateur Scouting Bureau final rankings, he was ranked as the 13th best player for players eligibl ...

, OT, Concordia : Simon Légaré, G, Montreal : Mike Filer, G, Mount Allison ;Defence :

Benjamin Thompson Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS (german: Reichsgraf von Rumford; March 26, 1753August 21, 1814) was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th-century revolut ...

, DT, McGill : Serge Kaminsky, DT, British Columbia : Zander Robinson, DE, Western Ontario : Adrian Saturley, DE, Acadia : John Surla, LB, Western Ontario : Filipe Fonseca Da Silva, LB, Sherbrooke : Jeff Hecht, LB, Saint Mary's : Julien Hamel, FS, Montreal :

Mark Holden Mark Ronald Holden (born 27 April 1954) is an Australian singer, actor, TV personality, record producer, songwriter, and barrister. He was a pop star in the 1970s and had four top 20 hit singles, "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" (May 1976 ...

, HB, Saint Mary's : Harrison Maloney, HB, Bishop's : Olivier Turcotte-Létourneau, CB, Laval : Chayce Elliot, CB, Ottawa ;Special Teams : Darryl Wheeler, P, Western Ontario : Matthew Falvo, K, Ottawa : Jahmeek Taylor, RET, Saint Mary's

http://english.cis-sic.ca/championships/fball/2010-11/releases/20101125-allcdns All-Canadian teams announced

Teams

References

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