football / en Թϱ Varsity Blues rugby football team is inducted into the 2016 Ontario Sports Hall of Fame /news/u-t-varsity-blues-rugby-football-team-inducted-2016-ontario-sports-hall-fame <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Թϱ Varsity Blues rugby football team is inducted into the 2016 Ontario Sports Hall of Fame</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2016-10-25-1909-teampicture-lead.jpg?h=e3ce4c69&amp;itok=sR1M7E50 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/2016-10-25-1909-teampicture-lead.jpg?h=e3ce4c69&amp;itok=rAM7mPB9 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/2016-10-25-1909-teampicture-lead.jpg?h=e3ce4c69&amp;itok=CKFZW_Kn 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2016-10-25-1909-teampicture-lead.jpg?h=e3ce4c69&amp;itok=sR1M7E50" alt="Photo of 1909 Varsity team"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>ullahnor</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2016-10-25T15:58:38-04:00" title="Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 15:58" class="datetime">Tue, 10/25/2016 - 15:58</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Photo of the 1909 Varsity rugby football team (photo courtesy of Թϱ Archives)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/jelena-damjanovic" hreflang="en">Jelena Damjanovic</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Jelena Damjanovic</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/city-culture" hreflang="en">City &amp; Culture</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-kinesiology-and-physical-education" hreflang="en">Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/varsity-0" hreflang="en">Varsity</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/football" hreflang="en">football</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-subheadline field--type-string-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Subheadline</div> <div class="field__item">The team won the first Grey Cup in 1909</div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>For every sport, there's always that one&nbsp;game, a championship series or a specific&nbsp;moment&nbsp;that&nbsp;fans cherish for years to come.</p> <p>For the University of Toronto's&nbsp;Varsity Blues rugby football team – the original Varsity football team&nbsp;–&nbsp;that special moment happened in December of&nbsp;1909, a game none of us are old enough to remember.</p> <p>Playing in front of a packed Rosedale field, the Blues faced off against the Toronto Parkdale Canoes Club, eventually clinching the game with a score of&nbsp;26-6 and winning the first-ever Grey Cup.&nbsp;</p> <p>Named after Canada’s Governor General Albert Henry George Grey, the Cup is now awarded to the champions of the Canadian Football League.</p> <p>The 1909 Blues team was inducted Oct. 17 into the 2016 Ontario Sports Hall of Fame for winning the first Grey Cup. They were presented with the Ferguson Jenkins Heritage Award, introduced in 2011&nbsp;to commemorate those one-of-a-kind moments in the history of sports in Ontario.</p> <p>Professor <strong>Ira Jacobs</strong>, dean of Թϱ's Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, accepted the award on behalf of the University of Toronto, thanking the committee “for recognizing the legacy of a game that happened 107 years ago and evolved into a recreational, social, and cultural phenomenon, and a truly national legacy.”</p> <p>The Blues went on to win the Cup for the next two years, in 1910 and 1911, and again in 1920&nbsp;“making Թϱ the winningest university with four Grey Cups,” said Jacobs.</p> <p>The team's&nbsp;legacy was acknowledged earlier in the year with a Grey Cup commemorative plaque mounted on the Թϱ Varsity Stadium by the Historic Sites and Monuments Boards of Canada,&nbsp;and Parks Canada.</p> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__2325 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" height="500" src="/sites/default/files/2016-10-25-grey-cup-embed.jpg" typeof="foaf:Image" width="750" loading="lazy"></p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:58:38 +0000 ullahnor 101556 at Varsity Blues /node/8794 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Varsity Blues</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>sgupta</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2016-01-07T15:47:21-05:00" title="Thursday, January 7, 2016 - 15:47" class="datetime">Thu, 01/07/2016 - 15:47</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-url field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">URL</div> <div class="field__item">https://varsityblues.ca/index.aspx</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-above clearfix"> <h3 class="field__label">Tags</h3> <ul class="links field__items"> <li><a href="/news/tags/football" hreflang="en">football</a></li> <li><a href="/news/tags/sports" hreflang="en">Sports</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Campus</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6953" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> Thu, 07 Jan 2016 20:47:21 +0000 sgupta 8794 at