Queen's Golden Gaels

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Queen's Gaels
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UniversityQueen's University at Kingston
AssociationU Sports
ConferenceOntario University Athletics
Athletic directorLeslie Dal Cin
LocationKingston, Ontario
Football stadiumRichardson Memorial Stadium
Other arenasAthletics and Recreation Centre (ARC)
Kingston Memorial Centre
MascotBoo Hoo the Bear
NicknameGaels
Fight songOil Thigh
ColoursGold, Blue, and Red
     
Websitewww.gogaelsgo.com

The Queen's Golden Gaels (also known as the Queen's Gaels) are the athletic teams that represent Queen's University at Kingston in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Team colours are blue, red, and gold. Its main home is Richardson Memorial Stadium on West Campus.

Queen's teams have had a variety of successes on the provincially and nationally. The Gaels football team is one of the oldest and most successful in Canada, including three straight Grey Cup victories in 1922, 1923, and 1924 and four Vanier Cup victories in 1968, 1978, 1992, and 2009. Queen's University hockey teams have competed on three occasions as Stanley Cup finalists in 1895, 1899, and 1906.

The Gaels have also won the 2010–11 U Sports Men's Curling Championship and the women's soccer team have won the national championship in 1988, 2010, and 2011.

The fight song is known as Oil Thigh which was written in 1891 and features Gaelic lyrics which can be heard at many sporting events. The mascot is Boo Hoo the Bear.

Name[]

Prior to 1947, Queen's teams were commonly referred to as "The Tricolour."

The "Golden Gaels" name was coined in 1947 by Kingston Whig-Standard sports reporter Cliff Bowering, after the football team traded its traditional uniform of red, gold, and blue bands for gold jerseys, gold helmets, and red pants. The name caught on and became the familiar term for Queen's teams by the 1950s. "Gaels" is a reference to Queen's Scottish heritage[clarification needed] (Queen's University was established in 1841 by the Presbyterian church).

In September 2008, Queen's Athletics & Recreation Department began referring to the school's teams as "Queen's Gaels." Along with this change, the website was changed from goldengaels.com to gogaelsgo.com. The change was reportedly made to highlight the university's name in promoting the team, however some have criticized the move as "change for the sake of change."[1] Under media scrutiny, the department claimed it had not in fact officially changed the name of the team;[1] thus, major media sources like the Kingston Whig-Standard and CKWS-TV continue to refer to the team as the "Golden Gaels".

Teams[]

Baseball[]

Queen's University Varsity Baseball Team started competing in the Ontario University Athletics circuit as of 2010.

Painted on the walls of the Varsity locker room is the word "Success" followed by the phrase "the harder you work, the luckier you get."

Basketball[]

Queen's hosted McGill University at the Kingston YMCA on February 6, 1904, in the first-ever Canadian interuniversity basketball game. McGill won 9–7, after a ten-minute overtime period to break a 7–7 tie.[2]

Curling[]

Men's[]

The men's curling team, in 2010, earned the gold medal at the CIS national championship in Edmonton, Alberta. The team led by First Team All-Canadian Jonathan Beuk went 5-1 in Round Robin play before beating the Manitoba Bisons in the semi-final and the UPEI Panthers in the Championship. The Gaels qualified for the 2011 World University Games in Erzurum, Turkey where they represented Canada. The team finished fifth after losing a tie-breaker match to the Czech Republic.[3]

Football[]

Main article: Queen's Gaels football
Gaels football at Richardson Memorial Stadium

The Queen's Gaels football program is one of the longest-lived and storied in U Sports. 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.,[4] 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 teams in the professional Canadian Football League in 1955, the Gaels turned their attention to the Vanier Cup, appearing in the U Sports championship game five times and winning four of those games in 1968, 1978, 1992 and 2009.

Ice hockey[]

Queen's Hockey
CityKingston, Ontario
LeagueU Sports
ConferenceOUA
Founded1886 (1886)
Home arenaKingston Memorial Centre
Former: Jock Harty Arena (1970-2007)
Strathcona Paper Centre (2007-2008)
Coloursred, blue & gold
Head coachBrett Gibson

Men[]

In 1886, Queen's challenged the Royal Military College of Canada to a game played on the frozen Kingston harbour; the two schools play annually for the Carr-Harris Cup, to continue the world's oldest hockey rivalry.[citation needed] Queen's hockey is one of the oldest hockey clubs in the world; only McGill University's team, started in 1875, is older among Canadian university teams. Queen's played its first season in 1883-84, with the first game for which records exist played against a team from Petawawa.[5]

In the 1890s, Queen's played in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA), winning its championship three times consecutively, taking the Cosby Cup into its permanent possession.[citation needed] Queen's won the inaugural J. Ross Robertson Cup during the 1898–99 season, as the senior ice hockey champion of the OHA.[6][7] As Ontario champion, the Queen's hockey team was a regular in Stanley Cup Challenge Games by challenging in 1895,[8] 1899 and 1906.

Queen's donated the Queen's Cup for annual Ontario University Athletics competition in 1898. In 1902, the Intercollegiate Hockey Union was formed and the Gaels won the title in 1904 and 1906. In 1909, Queen's won the Intercollegiate league and then won the Allan Cup national championship by defeating the Ottawa Cliffsides in a challenge. The 1910 team won the Allan Cup for a second time by winning the Intercollegiate title and a challenge before losing the Cup in a second challenge to Toronto St. Michael's.

Queen's operated a junior ice hockey team during the 1920s in the OHA. The junior team won the J. Ross Robertson Cup as the provincial champions in 1926, and had been finalists in 1921.[9] Queen's reached the 1926 Memorial Cup finals, but lost to the Calgary Canadians for the national championship.[10]

The varsity teams play at the Kingston Memorial Centre following the demolition of the Jock Harty Arena.

In 2018-19, the Gaels won their first Queen's Cup in 38 years, 4-1 over Guelph Gryphons in front of a 2,900 people at the Kingston Memorial Centre

Regular season results[]
Season Games Won Lost Tied OTL Points Pct % Goals
For		 Goals
Against		 Standing
1970-71 15 7 4 4 18 0.600 102 73 2nd in East
1971-72 19 8 10 1 17 0.447 99 81 5th in East
1972-73 17 10 6 1 21 0.618 96 67 3rd in East
1989-90 22 8 14 0 16 0.364 85 125
1992-93 22 8 11 3 19 0.432 80 97
1996-97 26 4 18 4 12 0.231 71 151 3rd in Mid-East
1997-98 26 8 16 2 18 0.346 76 123 3rd in Mid-East
1998-99 26 5 14 7 17 0.327 85 113 2nd in Mid-East
1998-99 26 5 14 7 17 0.327 85 113 2nd in Mid-East
1999-00 26 9 15 2 20 0.385 88 104 3rd in Mid-East
2000-01 24 6 16 2 14 0.292 75 108 2nd in Mid-East
2001-02 24 4 19 1 0 9 0.188 66 117 4th in Mid-East
2002-03 24 7 17 0 0 14 0.292 73 124 2nd in Mid-East
2003-04 24 9 13 2 0 20 0.416 76 95 2nd in Mid-East
2004-05 24 8 14 0 2 18 0.375 69 98 3rd in Mid-East
2005-06 24 7 15 1 1 16 0.333 59 98 3rd in Mid-East
2006-07 28 8 14 5 1 22 0.392 78 96 2nd in Mid-East
2007-08 28 13 12 0 3 29 0.518 77 93 1st in Mid-East
2008-09 28 12 13 0 3 27 0.482 57 82 2nd in Mid-East
2009-10 28 14 12 0 2 30 0.536 102 120 5th in East
2010-11 28 14 11 0 1 31 0.554 99 110 5th in East
2011-12
2012-13 28 10 18 0 0 27 .357 76 87
2013-14 28 17 11 0 0 39 .607 83 57
2014-15 26 13 12 0 1 27 .519 88 73 5th in East
2015-16 28 17 7 0 4 38 .607 93 67 5th in East
2016-17 28 18 7 0 3 39 .643 81 69 3rd in East
2017-18 28 19 6 0 3 41 .679 90 67 2nd in East
2018-19 28 18 10 0 0 36 .642 91 74 4th in East
Playoff results[]
  • 1999-2000 Defeated Toronto Varsity Blues in first round, 2 games to 1.

Down 4-1 heading into the 3rd period of game 3. Scored 3 goals in 82 seconds to tie the game and another 74 secs later to take the lead. Won the game 6-4 with an empty net goal.

  • Defeated Guelph Gryphons in quarter-final, 2 games to 0.
    Lost to UQTR in OUA Final Four, semi-final, 3-2.
  • 2000-2001 Lost to RMC Paladins in first round 2 games to 0
  • 2001-2002 Out of Playoffs
  • 2002-2003 Defeated RMC Paladins in first round 2 games to 0
    Lost to Toronto Varsity Blues in quarter-final 2 games to 1
  • 2003-2004 Defeated RMC Paladins in first round 2 games to 0
    Lost to Toronto Varsity Blues in quarter-final 2 games to 0
  • 2004-2005 Out of Playoffs
  • 2005-2006 Out of Playoffs
  • 2006-2007 Lost to Ottawa Gee-Gees in quarter-final 2 games to 0
  • 2007-2008 Gained first round bye
    Lost to McGill Redmen in semi-final 2 games to 0
  • 2008-2009 Did Not Qualify for Playoffs
  • 2009-2010 Lost to Carleton in OUA First Round 2 games to 1
  • 2010-2011 Lost to Nipissing in OUA First Round 2 games to 0
  • 2013-2014 Lost to Carleton in OUA East Semi-Final 2 games to 1
  • 2014-2015 Lost to McGill in OUA East Semi-Final 2 games to 0
  • 2015-2016 Lost to UOIT in OUA First Round 2 games to 1
  • 2016-2017 Lost to York in OUA Final
  • 2017-2018 Lost to Concordia in OUA East Semi-Final 2 games to 1
  • 2018-2019 Defeated Concordia 2-0
  • Defeated Ottawa 2-1
  • Defeated Carleton 2-0
  • Defeated Guelph 4-1 (Won OUA Championship)
  • Lost to St. FX X-Men 5-3 (USports Quarterfinals)

Women[]

Main article: Queen's Golden Gaels women's ice hockey

Rugby[]

Men's[]

The men's rugby team is regarded as one of the most successful rugby programs in Canada, and has won the OUA a record 23 times. Their home games are played on Nixon Field, at the heart of Queen's University campus, and crowds often top 2,000 spectators.

Most recently, the team was won the OUA Championship in 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2017. Other dynasties include the late 80s.

The team is currently coached by Dave Butcher, who took over from Gary Gilks and Peter Huigenbos in 2017.

Nationally capped players that have come through the program are current national captain, Lucas Rumball, Alistair Clark, Sean Duke, Dan Moor, Kainoa Lloyd and Matt Beukeboom.

Soccer[]

Women's[]

The women's soccer team captured gold at the CIS national championship in 2010. They beat rival Wilfrid Laurier 1-0 in the CIS final revenging its loss in the OUA final one-week earlier. Striker Jacqueline Tessier led the CIS in scoring during the regular season, tallying 18 goals in 16 games.[11]

In 2006, earned silver medals in the CIS national championships, thanks largely to star striker Eilish McConville.[12] McConville led all CIS players with 22 goals during the regular season, and was named the CIS Player of the year as a result.[13]

Track and field[]

Track and field is reported as the first sport at Queen's University. It began in 1873, as competitions held annually to celebrate the Universities inauguration on October 16 and included traditional Scottish competitions such as the caber toss.[14] These competitions remained major university events into the early 20th century.[14]

When the CIAU (now U Sports) began, the Queen’s University Track and Field team was one of the only teams to participate in all three athletics sports – indoor track and field, outdoor track and field, and cross-country.

In 1963 Rolf Lund was named head coach of the team, marking a turning point in the team’s history. Through the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the Queen’s track and field team saw many successful athletes. Some notable athletes include Olympian Sheridon Baptiste; Olympian Anne Marie Malone;[15] Olympian Victor Gooding, current school 1500m record holder Bob McCormack; and past head coach and multiple CIS champion Melody Torcalacci. The current coach is Steve Boyd.

Sailing[]

Queen Sailing is the current Canadian Collegiate title holder in Team Racing. Queen's is a member of the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) in the Middle Atlantic district (MAISA), as well as a part of CICSailing, Canada's inter-university sailing association. In 2011 Queen's Sailing won all the CICSailing title regattas it entered. The Varsity Sailing Team practices out of the Kingston Yacht Club.

Awards and honors[]

Athletes of the Year[]

The annual Athletic Awards gala is known as the Colour Awards for Varsity Clubs. The Female Athlete of the Year is awarded the Marion Ross Trophy. First awarded in 1981, the honor is named in recognition of the university's first athletic director. The Male Athlete of the Year is given the Jack Jarvis Trophy.

Year Female Athlete Sport Male Athlete Sport
1988-89 Eleanor Ip Tennis
1989-90 Jana Jackson Nordic Skiing
1990-91 Jill Lutz Swimming
1991-92 Cynthia Facchinato Gymnastics
1992-93 Leslie Bruce Track and Field
1993-94 Lesley Morrison Track and Field
1994-95 Bali Atwal Tennis
1995-96 Shannon Niemi
Carolyn Russell		 Badminton
Squash
1996-97 C.J. Davidson
Jana McLean		 Figure Skating
1997-98 Johanna Thomas Squash
1998-99 Karen Thomas Figure Skating
1999-2000 Paula Myslivecek
Charlotte Wilson		 Tennis
Track and Field
2000-01 Audrey Giles Track and Field
2001-02 Megan Stone Fencing
2002-03 Kristy Wells Rugby, Wrestling
2003-04 Kate Walker Rowing
2004-05 Morgan Waddell Rowing
2005-06 Katy Perry Swimming
2006-07 Rachel Koens Figure Skating
2007-08 Joanne Ko Fencing
2008-09 Leslie Sexton Track and Field
2009-10 [16] Caylen Heckle Rowing Ryan Meyers Rowing
2010-11 Lisa McLaughlin[17] Lacrosse
2011-12[18] Emily Young Figure Skating Michael Nishiyama Track and Field
2012-13 Alex Cross Synchro
2013-14 Anna Rogers Fencing
2014-15 Erin Milner Synchro
2015-16 Jasmin Aggarwal Triathlon
2016-17 Lily Jiang Fencing
2017-18[19] Nora Kamal Squash Zachary Baum Sailing
2018-19[20] Amanda Thoo Field hockey Mike Mackenzie Ultimate Disc
2019-20[21] Mary Fay Curling Scott Gittens Sailing

Mascot[]

Boo Hoo the Bear is the mascot of Queen's University. Boo Hoo wears a vest and tam o' shanter in the Royal Stewart tartan.

Boo Hoo the Bear

Originally, Boo Hoo was a real bear which was paraded around at football games and kept in the basement of Grant Hall. The first bear was a pet of Bill Hughes who brought him to Queen's when he was hired as a boxing trainer.[22] Music has been composed that was inspired by the Boo Hoo dynasty — "Boo-Hoo's march for piano", "Boo Hoo's Queen's Dominion Victory March" (1922) and "The Mascot: Boo Hoo's March to Queen's Rugby Team" — by Oscar Telgmann in Toronto in the 1920s.[23][24]

This was the first of a succession of five bears who lived at the stadium until the 1950s.[22] The story of each bear is still unknown, though no bear reached full size.[25] The Queen's student government, the Alma Mater Society, was in charge of bears three and four.

The mascot was revived in its present form in the 1980s[23] by the Queen's Bands Cheerleaders and is currently in his eighth incarnation, giving him the full title of "King Boo Hoo the Eighth". He is seen often around the Queen's campus, at the Queen's Gaels Canadian football games, frosh week and homecoming, and has been on the cover of several issues of Golden Words.[26]

References[]

  1. ^ a b The name’s Gaels, Queen’s Gaels - Queen's Journal
  2. ^ Queen's Journal, vol. 31, no. 7, Feb. 16, 1904; 105 years of Canadian university basketball, by Earl Zukerman, http://www.cisport.ca/e/m_basketball/story_detail.cfm?id=13618[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Queens University Athletics and Recreation - Canada's run in men's curling comes to an end
  4. ^ http://www.cisport.ca, History of Canadian University Football section.
  5. ^ Queen's Journal, March 3, 1884.
  6. ^ Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2005). Silverware. Bolton, Ontario: Fenn Publishing Company. pp. 8–9. ISBN 1-55168-296-6.
  7. ^ "Senior Series". Ontario Hockey Association. 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  8. ^ Legends of Hockey Archived January 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine [Accessed 30 April 2007]
  9. ^ Annual Report: Constitution, Regulations and Rules of Competition. Cambridge, Ontario: Ontario Hockey Association. 2006. p. W-13.
  10. ^ Lapp, Richard M.; Macaulay, Alec (1997). The Memorial Cup: Canada's National Junior Hockey Championship. Madeira Park, British Columbia: Harbour Publishing. pp. 29–30. ISBN 1-55017-170-4.
  11. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved May 16, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ^ A summary of the team's performance leading up to the championship match can be found here.
  13. ^ The CIS press release announcing McConville's award can be found here. Archived February 22, 2007, at the Wayback Machine A story in the Queen's Journal on the championship match can be found here.[dead link]
  14. ^ a b "Queen's Encyclopedia".
  15. ^ "Queen's Track and Field". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15.
  16. ^ Kate Bascom, Jake Edmiston (2010-04-01). "Individual awards doled out at Colour Awards". queensjournal.ca/. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  17. ^ "Athlete Awards: Lisa McLaughlin". gogaelsgo.com/. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  18. ^ "Young and Nishiyama named major award winners at Queen's Varsity Clubs athletic banquet". queensjournal.ca/. 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  19. ^ "Varsity clubs shine at Colour Awards". queensjournal.ca/. 2018-03-29. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  20. ^ "Thoo and Mackenzie named major award winners at Queen's Varsity Clubs athletic banquet". gogaelsgo.com/. 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  21. ^ "Fay and Gittens named major award winners at Queen's Varsity Clubs athletic awards". gogaelsgo.com/. 2020-04-24. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  22. ^ a b Daub, Mervin (1996-08-07). Gael Force: A Century of Football at Queen's. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 45. ISBN 0-7735-1519-4. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
  23. ^ a b "Queen's Encyclopedia: Boo Hoo the Bear". Retrieved 2010-01-07.
  24. ^ Letellier, Robert Ignatius (2015). Operetta: A Sourcebook, vol 2, p. 1023. Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  25. ^ "Making of a mascot". The Journal. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  26. ^ "Golden Words". 42 (7). Archived from the original on 2007-12-22. Retrieved 2008-02-07. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
    - "Golden Words". 39 (20). Archived from the original on 2007-12-21. Retrieved 2008-02-07. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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