Saint Mary's Huskies football


The Saint Mary's Huskies football team represents Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the sport of Canadian football in U Sports. The program has been the most successful in the Atlantic University Sport conference, reaching the Vanier Cup championship game nine times and winning three times, both marks being the highest in the AUS. The program also has the most Jewett Trophy conference championships, winning 24 times in 32 appearances.
They would become the third university to win back-to-back championships and the first of three universities to appear in at least three consecutive championship tournaments. The second being the Saskatchewan Huskies and the third being the Laval Rouge et Or. As of 2019, the Huskies are the last AUS team to have both appeared in a Vanier Cup and to have won a Vanier Cup.
The Hec Crighton Trophy was awarded four times to Saint Mary's Huskies players; three times to Chris Flynn and once to Erik Glavic in 2007. Flynn is the only player to have won the league MVP award three times and in 2011, he became the first player inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame based solely on a university career.

Recent coaching history

was the head coach of the Huskies for six seasons from 2006 to 2011 and had his teams achieve four first-place finishes, along with one Vanier Cup appearance in 2007. He was fired on Dec. 5, 2011. Perry Marchese was hired as his replacement on February 17, 2012. Marchese had a record of 8-24 over four seasons and was replaced with James Colzie in 2016.

Recent season results

Championships

National Championships

[Vanier Cup]

[Uteck Bowl]

Loney Bowl

The Huskies have also been victorious in the Loney Bowl Conference Championship a record 24 times with their last coming in the 2010 season.

National award winners

As of the end of the 2019 CFL season, six former Huskies players are on CFL teams' rosters: