This is a list of seasons completed by the
Canisius Golden Griffins football team formerly of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
Division I -AA. Canisius' first football team was fielded in 1918.
Canisius originally competed as a football
independent, before competing for years as a member of the
Western New York Little Three Conference with local Catholic rivals
Niagara
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and
St. Bonaventure. The team moved to
Division III in the 1970s, before joining the
I-AA's
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in
1993
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. At the conclusion of the
2002 season, the Canisius football program was discontinued, along with seven other school athletic programs, as part of an effort to overhaul and streamline the school's athletic department.
Seasons
References
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People
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Canisius Golden Griffins football seasons
This is a list of seasons completed by the Canisius Golden Griffins football team formerly of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I (NCAA), Division IFootball Championship Subdivision, -AA. Canisius' first football team wa ...