Queen's University

Football
The Queen's Gaels football program is one of the longest-lived and storied in the entire Canadian Interuniversity Sport. The team began organized play in 1883 when the Ontario Rugby Football Union was first founded and won ORFU champions in 1893 and 1894. Queen's has competed continuously since 1882, celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2007. The first organized university football league in Canada, the Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union (CIRFU), was founded in Kingston in November, 1897, with charter members Queen's, McGill University, and the University of Toronto., the football squad showed continued success, winning three straight Grey Cups in 1922, 1923 and 1924. Once teams stopped competing for the Grey Cup, which was begun being solely awarded to Canadian Football League teams in 1955, the Gaels turned their attention to the Vanier Cup, appearing in the CIS championship game five times and winning four of those games in 1968, 1978, 1992 and 2009.

The team is recently coming off of their Vanier Cup win in 2009, but due to quarterback Danny Brannagan's graduation (and subsequent signing by the Toronto Argonauts) and other key players leaving, the team endured a difficult 3-5 season. The team just barely made the playoffs in 2010, but had strong seasons in 2011 and 2012 when the team finished 6-2 and in third place in both years.

Season-by-season record
The following is the record of the Queen's Golden Gaels football team in the last ten seasons of play:

Queen's Gaels in the CFL
As of the start of the 2012 CFL season, four former Gaels players are on CFL teams' rosters:
 * Rob Bagg, Saskatchewan Roughriders
 * Kevin Scott, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
 * Chris Smith, Toronto Argonauts
 * Shomari Williams, Saskatchewan Roughriders

Few know that Carl Voss (BA 27) was both an excellent football and hockey player. While at university he played 4 seasons (1924 to 1927) with the Queen's Golden Gaels. This included a victory in the 1924 12th Grey Cup. Voss has his name engraved on the Grey Cup for this season. Voss also scored the Stanley Cup winning goal for the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1938 Stanley Cup Finals. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

This makes Voss, along with Hall-of-Famer Lionel Conacher, one of only two players to have their name engraved on both the Stanley Cup and the Grey Cup.