{"id":35217,"date":"2025-11-10T19:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35217\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T19:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:59:18","slug":"queens-university-captures-yates-cup-for-first-time-in-16-years-kingston-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35217\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s University captures Yates Cup for first time in 16 years \u2013 Kingston News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\"\"The Queen\u2019s University Golden Gaels Football team are the 2025 Yates Cup champions. Photo by Mackenzie Dunford.<\/p>\n

The oldest existing football trophy in North America is coming back to Kingston with the Queen\u2019s University Football team, Yates Cup champions.<\/p>\n

Hosted by the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks at Knight-Newbrough Field in Waterloo, the 117th Yates Cup Championships took place this past Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. The fourth-seeded Queen\u2019s Golden Gaels took on the home team; the Golden Hawks held the top spot in the league leading into the championship. Going into the game, the Gaels had not won at the Yates Cup since 2009.<\/p>\n

But the Gaels, seeking their 24th win of the Yates Cup since it was first awarded in 1898, came out strong and, according to the university, held on to their first-half lead to defeat the defending champions on their home turf.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great group of human beings all the way through the entire department, the entire football program,\u201d Queen\u2019s Football Head Coach Steve Snyder said in an announcement from the university.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey care so much. They have been through a lot. Everybody\u2019s got their own story, and they stay committed. The commitment and resiliency and emotional toughness of this group is unlike any group I\u2019ve ever been around.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"Photos by Mackenzie Dunford.<\/p>\n

Snyder continued, saying he is happy for Queen\u2019s, for Kingston, and for all Queen\u2019s University alumni and students \u2013 and, of course, the Gaels\u2019 supporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is for everyone that\u2019s ever put on the Tricolour, and that\u2019s ever laid a brick to the foundation to what is now the 2025 team. We\u2019ve got a lot of amazing supporters, great alumni,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guys that I\u2019ve coached since 2019, this is for them, because they helped build this. This team finished it off but there is a lot of people that built this thing up, including Linda Melnick, our Executive Director.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"Photos by Mackenzie Dunford.<\/p>\n

Donated by Dr. Henry Brydges Yates of McGill University, the Yates Cup is awarded by Ontario University Athletics (OUA) to the winner of the U Sports football conference. The Golden Gaels will now go on to face the Canada West (CW) Football champions, the University of Saskatchewan Huskies, for the Mitchell Bowl on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. The Huskies beat out the University of Regina Rams at the CW championship Hardy Cup at the start of the month; the winners of the Mitchell Bowl will take on the winners of the Uteck Bowl for the coveted Vanier Cup on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025.<\/p>\n

More information on Queen\u2019s Football can be found on the university\u2019s Athletics and Recreation site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queen\u2019s University Golden Gaels Football team are the 2025 Yates Cup champions. Photo by Mackenzie Dunford. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[20793,20794,20795,20796,9711,20797,9,24,63,20798,20799,12774,122,124,123,20800,20801,20802,20803,20804,20805],"class_list":["post-35217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-117th-yates-cup","tag-coach-steve-snyder","tag-gaels-football","tag-golden-gaels","tag-kingston","tag-mitchell-bowl","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-ontario-university-athletics-oua","tag-queens-football","tag-queens-university","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-saskachewan-huskies","tag-varsity-sports","tag-waterloo","tag-wildfrid-laurier-golden-hawks","tag-wilfrid-laurier-university","tag-yates-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}