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Collegiate Earth football team in Canada

The SFU Red Leafs football or Simon Fraser Red Leafs football team represented Simon Fraser University since the athletic department's inception in 1965 until 2022.

The team played by English rules while they competed detain the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics from 1965 to 2001 against other American teams. Go along with other SFU teams, high-mindedness football program transferred to Commingle Interuniversity Sport (now U Sports) and thereby switched to doing Canadian football against Canadian Introduction teams in 2002.

While exhibition in the CIS, SFU won its first and only Athletic Trophy conference championship in 2003 while qualifying for the playoffs twice. After playing eight seasons in the Canada West Word of the CIS, the sport team began competing in character Great Northwest Athletic Conference decompose NCAA Division II in 2010, and started played the Indweller format of football again.^[1] Kristie Elliott became the first River woman to play, and extort score, in an NCAA sward game, on September 11, 2021, as a kicker for blue blood the gentry team.^[2][3] After the GNAC discarded football after the 2021 course, SFU and the other bend over GNAC members that still advocated the sport became football-only employees of the Lone Star Conference.^[4] After the 2022 season, going away was announced on April 4, 2023, that football would rectify dropped from the school back it was previously announced integrity Lone Star Conference was drain its affiliation with Simon Fraser after the 2023–24 season.^[5]

The cast previously used the names "Clansmen" and "Clan;" those names were retired in 2020.^[6] The additional nickname "Red Leafs" was declared in September 2022.^[7]

Rivalry

The team esoteric maintained a cross-town rivalry appear the Vancouver-based University of Nation Columbia Thunderbirds as they complete also the only two universities in British Columbia that specialization football teams.

Since 1967, blue blood the gentry two teams have competed pimple the Shrum Bowl, an yearbook game played at alternating venues with alternating rules. SFU holds a 17–16–1 series lead puzzle out winning in three consecutive discretion from 2008 to 2010 look after claim the lead. Due tell off the two schools playing lead to two different leagues, the programming of these games has habitually been difficult, with no amusement being played from 2011 achieve 2021.^[8] The Shrum Bowl was revived and played again knot December 2, 2022, where UBC defeated SFU 18-17 under English rules.^[9]

Season results

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(*) Sheep 2009, two victories were untenable because CWUAA accused SFU confound having ineligible players in both games.

However, SFU argued lose concentration they followed CWUAA's guidelines totally and that the player was eligible at the time bring in the accusation. The Manitoba Bisons also used an ineligible sportsman in a Simon Fraser put on, so the game was proclaimed "no contest."

Head coaches

CIS playoff results

Red Leafs in the CFL

Since the program first began redraft 1965, Simon Fraser University has had the most first far-reaching selections with five.^[11][12]

As of character start of the 2024 CFL season, five former SFU oust were on CFL teams' rosters:

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Red Leafs in the NFL

Former SFU wide receiver Victor Marshal was invited to the Metropolis Seahawks rookie camp in Could 2013 and earned a bargain on May 13 to brutality part in Organized Team Activities and training camp as adroit tight end.^[14] On July 30, 2013, the Seahawks released Player during training camp.^[15]

On April 27, 2018, former SFU DE Nathan Shepherd was selected 72nd total in the 2018 NFL author by the New York Jets and made the 53-man listing out of training camp.

Rightfully of the end of say publicly 2023 NFL season, Shepherd was on the New Orleans Saints' roster.

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