Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks football

The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks football team has appeared in five Vanier Cup championships, losing in 1966, 1968 and 1972, and winning the national title in 1991 and 2005. The team has also won seven Yates Cup conference championships, most recently in 2004 and 2005. Their head coach during that time was Gary Jeffries, who became the interim head coach midway through the 2002 campaign before being named the full-time head coach for the 2003 season. Overall, he had compiled a regular season record of 58 wins and 22 losses as well as leading them to their 2005 Vanier Cup victory. The Golden Hawks have had one Hec Crighton Trophy winner, Bill Kubas, a former quarterback who won the award in 1994.

The program was one of the strongest in the OUA, as they had always finished in the top three in the ten-team conference from 2003-2009 as long as Jeffries had been the full-time head coach. The team completed two unbeaten regular seasons in 2004 and 2005, and one completely unbeaten season in the latter after going 12-0 and winning the 41st Vanier Cup in 2005. The Golden Hawks had seven straight seasons of at least six wins between 2003 and 2009, but had back-to-back .500 seasons in 2010 and 2011. While the team had a four win season in 2010, it should be noted that they forfeited a game they won against the Toronto Varsity Blues for using an ineligible player.

The Golden Hawks finished with a losing record in 2012 for the first time since Jeffries had taken over as head coach in 2002. Jeffries announced his resignation as the manager of football operations and head coach on November 1, 2012, leaving the program as the second winningest football coach in school history. Former Mustangs quarterback Michael Faulds was hired as the team's head coach on January 8, 2013.

Season-by-season record
The following is the record of the Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks football team in the last ten seasons of play:

Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks in the CFL
As of the start of the 2012 CFL season, five former Golden Hawks players are on CFL teams' rosters:
 * Yannick Carter, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
 * Shamawd Chambers, Edmonton Eskimos
 * Ian Logan, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
 * Justin Phillips, Calgary Stampeders
 * Chima Ihekwoaba, Montreal Alouettes