The Montreal Carabins football team represents the

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in the sport of

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. The Carabins program has been in operation since its resurrection in the

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season and has established itself as a provincial and national powerhouse with four RSEQ conference championships and one

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since

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History

The team began its second incarnation in 2002 after over thirty years of being dormant. The Carabins first began play in 1966 in the Ontario Intercollegiate Football Conference and continued play for the next six seasons. The program was dropped after the 1971 season due to a shift in philosophy as many francophone universities placed an emphasis on community involvement and intramural athletic activities as opposed to intercollegiate athletics. That philosophy has shifted back to intercollegiate sports as

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, Montréal and

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each began programs in 1996, 2002 and 2003, respectively. The current program has seen marked success in the regular season, having qualified for the playoffs in every season since 2003. However, the program had difficulty winning their conference championship in the early years, with five losses in their first five appearances. That changed under the leadership of former

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, in

, as the Carabins defeated the

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to win their first

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. The team then won the national semi-final

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against the

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to qualify for the first

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game in program history. In the 50th Vanier Cup, the Carabins defeated the

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by a score of 20–19 to win the first national championship in program history. The team won two more Dunsmore Cups in 2015 and 2019, but eventually lost in the

games in both seasons. Maciocia resigned following the 2019 season to join the

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and was replaced by Marco Iadeluca on February 11, 2020. In 2021, the first season after the

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, the team finished first of the regular season with a record of 7-1, and two straight wins against their rivals, the Laval Rouge et Or. They hosted the 2021

at home, and managed to lift it in Montréal - their fourth Dunsmore Cup - following a decisive victory of 28-19 against Laval, the program's first Dunsmore Cup win at home - and finished the season with three wins against their rivals for the first time in their history. In 2022, the team finished second in the RSEQ with a record of 6-2. They participated in their ninth straight Dunsmore Cup, and lost 24-25 in Québec, against the Rouge et Or on a

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Season-by-season record

National award winners

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: Nicky Farinaccio (2022) *

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: Maxime Gagnier (2003), Martin Gagné (2005)

Carabins in the CFL

As of the end of the 2022 CFL season, 14 former Carabins players are on CFL teams' rosters: * Louis-Philippe Bourassa,

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* Frédéric Chagnon,

* Régis Cibasu, Montreal Alouettes * Marc-Antoine Dequoy, Montreal Alouettes *

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, Montreal Alouettes * David Foucault,

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* Brian Harelimana, Montreal Alouettes * Kevin Kaya, Montreal Alouettes * Redha Kramdi,

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* Pier-Olivier Lestage, Montreal Alouettes * Benoit Marion,

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* David Ménard,

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, Ottawa Redblacks * Sean Thomas Erlington,

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References

External links

Carabins official site
{{U Sports football U Sports football teams U Sports teams in Quebec Montreal Carabins