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DECEMBER www.cordweekly.com Vanier Cud Special Issue MONDAY 5,2005

MISSION

ACCOMPLISHED

Stephen Pell

after his Golden Hawks defeated the 24-23 in a TEARS he a member of his coaching staff, seconds WLU of joy - A usually stoic Laurier Head Coach Gary Jeffries cries as hugs record and OUA Coach of the Year three times. Laurier's football an 30-3 winning thrilling Vanier at the helm, Jeffries has revolutionized program, amassing amazing Cup on Saturday. In his three years 2 ￿ MONDAY DECEMBER 5, 2005 |Tht Cord Weekly

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Pyear caps perfect season

Timely defence, one clutch field goal and a stellar quarterback put the Hawks over the top in their thrilling Vanier

first 14 Mike Cup victory, the school's in long years. Brown reports from a frigid Hamilton

StephenPell

GOOD THINGS IN SMALL PACKAGES - WLU's undersized but inspirational quarterback Ryan Pyear throws a pass to Andy Baechler in the first quarter.

read and stuffed final drives. MIKE BROWN on a six-yard pass from quarter- tions, Bryon Hickey made two key Huskies run unforgettable two Sports Editor back Steve Bilan. Stevens led the grabs, first demonstrating tremen- Cameron for a loss, forcing aWLU Watching the celebrations, it was

third and all clear that this was a way for Saskatchewan all day, dous concentration while ripping timeout facing 16. But too team of found their shoulder all HAMILTON - In Saturday's Vanier amassing an obscene 240 yards a near interception from the the seeming team destiny carrying a chip on

Laurier hit team mission. As the Cup, the Wilfrid Golden from scrimmage, including all hands of Saskatchewan linebacker a way, as Pyear second-year season, a on a Hawks did what only nine other three Huskies touchdowns. Morley Miller and then capping quarterback turned wide receiver first OUA representative in the

Dante his Vanier since teams in CIS history have ever However, after linebacker Jesse the drive with a cross-body catch Luciani, who dodged Cup 1995, respect was

Alexander in of the first down hard Some accomplished, edging the knocked down Bilan's the back endzone. way to an all-important to come by. predictions

the With three minutes from West the favoured Saskatchewan Huskies two-point convert attempt, just under to keep hope alive. out had Hawks the

24-23 15-13 Laurier for extra inch, victims of 46-7 to cap an undefeated season Hawks retained a tenuous remaining, set up for a Working every a shellacking. with Canadian university sport's lead. Temporarily. potentially game-tying two-point Laurier ran a screen pass to "We were laughing," smiled

Cameron and of short "There's were most sought-after crown. As die Laurier offence stalled, convert. Cameron managed to a couple Mickey. no way we

his Devlin's 40 That's the kind For three quarters, the 16,827 momentumshifted decisively to the separate from man and as runs to set up gut- losing by points. lofted his field of Ontario fans that stuck it out through the experienced Saskatchewan squad. Pyear a wobbly pass in wrenching goal attempt. disrespect gets." After wide left in the the end, his bitter cold at Ivor Wynne Stadium Kicker Braden Suchan split the direction, the frenetic Laurier missing In though, room-

from 41 crowd Alas, first and a botched in mate and best friend stated it best. witnessed one of the most even uprights yards out just over was poised to explode. quarter snap

- minutes into off his and the the old "We're the in football matches imaginable so two the final frame to the pass glanced hands third, adage proved greatest team close that the time of possession give the Huskies a 16-15 advantage. left him face down on the turf in true, as Devlin split the uprights Canada and no one can take that

The and devastation. this third time charm from us," beamed through 45 minutes was separated raucous predominately making a away Agro. all the about the by just eight seconds. Laurier crowd caught another and giving the Indeed, hype

OUA and Laurier's all for of unwelcome of Stevens at Hawks a 24-23 lead. of the It came together one glimpse inferiority With 2:27 on the the remaining clock, that lack of size immaterial. the most thrilling finishes in the his best on first play of All proved

next drive, as he remained was a "You know about size Vanier Cup's 41-year history, as Saskatchewan's something Laurier, a team that lias shunned last ditch and and attributes like Laurier kicker Brian Devlin found busted out towards the right side- futile speed himself his 85 effort from the that?" faced with a 32-yard kick line and powered way yards questioned Montoya. individual accolades all year, a If that for the in what looked to be Huskies before time can would indelibly etch his name major, "They're just physical. you

the if into Hawks' history books. With 19 the decisive blow. With under ran out on outthink your opponent, you can true team in every sense of the Laurier brides- have than seconds left the seven minutes perennial more passion your on game clock, remaining,

of maids from then have a the reticent second team All- faced the unenviable task put- word, simply banded together. opponent, you Canadian the Saskatchewan. chance." calmly converted the ting up eight points against

defence. "We our And the hearts of the Hawks are biggest kick of his life, having nation's second stiffest played said Huskies didn't seem to that close to see hearts out," Head to already missed from a shorter dis- The adversity Coming only tough question.

tance the Coach Brian Towriss, sombre in the two in the first quarter. phase the Hawks, though. "Ry game literally slip through Perhaps proudest peo-

"He's ice in said it in the huddle," their would be defeat. "We lost a one last in the stadium on got his veins," com- [Pyear] just fingertips enough tough ple Saturday this Andrew to crush most teams. But not the We lost a tough one were Head Coach Gary Jeffries, a mented quarterback Ryan Pyear, explained slotback Agro, year. year.

the six 2005 Golden Hawks. We have to a little better, man this team would follow team's emotional leader. "He who led the team with recep- just go get any-

that 1 he his veteran where without and his makes the kicks tions for 81 most of them "We will go down as a team guess," added, as hesitation, always biggest ... yards, in off the field with Ptaszek. and he did in the final minutes. "He's never quit," noted Montoya squad limped it again today." coming just young protege matter-of-fact their third Vanier "From 22 to The in like, 'You know what? This is for his typical manner. Cup disappoint- August today, they victory was very much doubt Thanks to a of defensive ment in four did it a little better than everyone midway through the fourth the rest of our lives.' pair quick years.

knew and Most of Laurier's elated fans Ptaszek. "I'm quarter. After 15-7 "For we stops, company were else," explained very jumping to a some reason, just Pyear

lead he one last chance to com- were too busy storming the field to proud of them." thanks to touchdown strikes it was going to work out," granted to their storybook ending. With notice. "This is exactly how 1 want- "We want this ride to continue third-year slotback Andy added. plete

on the clock, ed to out," a forever," added Jeffries. Baechler on the of Offensive 2:27 remaining explained euphoric and fifth-year running So, strength go the known as the back a team that has shunned moments after For now, being Nick Cameron, the Hawks Coordinator Stefan Ptaszek's play- Laurier, Pyear accepting suit watched individual accolades all a Ted Morris Trophy as the game's greatest football team to ever their eight-point advan- calling mastery, Laurier strung year, MVR connected 20 of 30 in and will have tage 79- true team in sense of the Pyear on up purple gold to dissipate quickly. together a timely eight-play, every 254 suffice. The march. Amidst word, banded together. passes on the day, good for Huskies looked to Hec yard scoring simply

Creighton After a completion to Agro, the yards, three touchdowns and an nominee David Stevens Cameron runs and Agro recep- The Cord Weekly 4 MONDAY DECEMBER 5, 2005 MONDAY DECEMBER 5, 2005' 5

2005VANIER CUP CHAMPIONS Cord 6 MONDAY DECEMBER 5, 2005 Opinion |IHI- Weekiy]

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Cheerleading shouldn't play secondfiddle

Friday at the University of

friend's mom Waterloo, my sug-

gested that the lack of respect CARLYBEATH shown to cheerleading is due to the fact that it's a predominantly

it OpinionEditor female sport. She wondered if

was a mostly male sport (as it

"Cheerleading isn't a sport." started out), would it get more

You've all heard it before. If respect and attetion? 1 think this is you're like me, you might have even the sad-but-true reality. Graphic by Emilie Joslin and Emma McFarlane gotten into a few fights about it. You hear similar arugments sur-

People think it's funny to get me rounding figure skating. While not going on the subject. They think it's as predominantly female as cheer-

But it riles it's considered all jokes. really me up. leading, definitely

Cheerleading doesn't get near a feminine sport. There are about The little it trillion TV the respect deserves. three hockey games on university

Many people seem to have the every year, but even cheerlead-

the idea that cheerleading means put- ing's nationals, big event of the weren't televised. Then ting on a cute little skirt and year,

switch TSN and watch prancing around as a secondary on you can

But ruled show at football games. that's poker, a game by men. that could not the case at all. The Cord's been a similar finally Cheerleading takes a damn lot offender, too. The Golden Hawks

of strength, skill, co-ordination cheerleading team came second

and You have be in practice. to grace- the country at last year's com-

ful and enough to dance well, but petition all they got for cover- the Last year's Sports Editor and WLU alumnus Bryan Shinn says that despite tough enough to either throw age was a miniscule article and a

someone in the air, or be thrown slightly blurry photo. Contrast that

massive well- of football the to all of us yourself. Those heights are not for with the (albeit amazing play our team, victory really belongs the faint of of heart. deserved) amount print space

1 once heard a saying that went given to the one-ranking-higher

it something like, "You drop a foot- football team, and all seems a bit

it is Laurier letdown since the outlaw- dominance, Western's or ball, you pick up and keep going. uneven. This probably one of parties Waterloo's Blackberries. You drop someone in cheerlead- the reasons that most students ing of panty-raids.

call It wasn't their interior Our above ing, and you'd better an could name at least one of two defence, slightly average

- whose famous alum ambulance." this a but Joel Agro or Baechler. Nor school most Now, may be football players, probably only BRYAN SHINN Wright, since it Brian Devlin, let's face be MuchMusic's Matte bit unfair, there are plently of people who have friends on the was who, may just

be Babel - the Canadian injuries in football too, but there's cheerleading team could name a Sports EditorEmeritus it, may now the most famous was atop

kicker Canadian if for one some truth to it. There's less room cheerleader. on a university university landscape only

while in few that ever even the first rec- And the for error in cheerleading than Cheerleading routines are pre- There are sporting events campus (or day. basking glory almost other and about transcend both time and and kicker). And it wasn't, of we couldn't resist show- any sport. cise. More more, they're space, ognizable victory,

difficult rather than fewer that make reflect on some wish it WLU some love. I really don't understand why stunts cute even you though may was, ing

All that work deserves it Golden Hawk football Somehow in the people discredit it so much. Think cheers. of a what is you're cheering for. "every play- personified

who bedlam of elation was it's not physical enough? Try doing larger audience and something On Saturday, a truly golden foot- er came before." post-game

a to a basket toss (launching someone more than status as a "fluffy" sport. ball game did both, leaving an response every- school into air nation a our the by having them step on I know for some of you my argu- entire purple-hearted thing Yes, on a clay in December frigid isn't: beloved hands and then them won't be unified emotional mess. by your flinging ments enough to change Maclean's , upward) and then back to me. mind. So here's my challenge With 17 grand in Ivor Wynne get your we were the little university that renowned for its - cheerlead- and masses more to the Cheerleading practices are to you go to just one glued often I Hawks architecture or non- gruelling and frustrating ing competition. can almost pigskin, our underdog finally could. No longer pale in the carcinogenic Arts endeavors. If those basket tosses guarantee you'll have a new erased an eight-point deficit late

stake claim a classrooms. are hard enough to do once during respect for cheerleaders as ath- in the game to to shadow of McMaster's gridiron On we a routine, how about doing them letes afterwards. Because cheer- one-point victory a perfect season paper have been and and in not tal- and a national - nothing over over over again leading's easy; they're just championship dominance, Western's parties or more than the sec- order to learn and perfect them? ented and hard-working enough only the second in school history.

December ond best university As I watched the National to make it look that way. And as the sun set on Waterloo's Blackberries.

in an ordinary town Cheerleading Championships on 3rd 2005, thousands spilled onto

We in outside of . On Saturday, the turf as they had nearly a half watched as our gladiators

kicked and took names. dozen times in 15 months. Yet who purple played like giants, yet we all we ass Devlin what 1 dare While Hickey and they were running for and felt, do say, golden. Pyear, '91 the natural found their next to the they were celebrating became very Bypassing tendency spot of Kubas and ' ' much unclear. to raise our football heroes, we legends Ptaszek,

STUFFED own celebrated our to one In Cecchini, we Our Hawks were biggest but it turned instead another. Animol Store residence, lazy Stuffed about redden face, whether drunken nights in I | wasn't football anymore. each past, work and It wasn't whose or never-a-Hawk, there Sundays resisting every vkk THemcf (f/tiiitma-s Ryan Pyear, present that while conversation that expressed our Laurier career as an undersized was a personal triumph $0% ,*£' Mc*e&&*dt-ic | faefau£utf to of the future and a desire quarterback will undoubtedly be selfish, sort of defines what fear VBHbh[ ■<£&u£ps4 $M£M4&&, M£.£~&4#€#£&*g4.. <%&d mi Laurier is about. here'. etched as the best ever. Nor was it all stay 'right 2CG6 | tai&tdeu/ | of in December We celebrated the character Nick Cameron, who ran his Hawks Yes, on a frigid day and 519-884-4395 the little that and Albert in our own way, deep into the post-season twice, we were university King flßk 225 St, Nat Wateftoo that has made I ojlk Kjng University, Q | could. No in the the tradition only for a missed catch to nearly finally longer pale growing (Beside Chameteon's & across from Worry's) . j this so indescribably unique. immortalize him as the biggest shadow of McMaster's gridiron place The Cord Weekly MONDAY DECEMBER 5, 2005 ￿7

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■ The school's 1 st-ever undefeated "Screw The Cord!"

season

- A gathering of rowdy students

coming back from Hamilton, -The Ist National title since 1991 responding to Jordan Jocius not

taking pictures of them

■ Back-to-back Yates Cup championships

'It's time to party!"

- 20-game OUA undefeated streak

- WLUPresident Bob Rosehart at - Coach Jeffries' 3rd OUA Coach of the post-game party in the AC the Year in as many seasons at the helm

"As soon as I got up, I

- Six All-Canadians - two First Team had a guy saying 'You (Pyear, Logan) and four 2nd Team don't want to come (Cameron, Devlin, Keks and Smeaton) over the middle again,'

but last time I checked

- Six CIS Player of the Week nods that was where my (Beckford, Pyear, Cond, Cameron, Jordan Jocius was." Devlin X2) touchdown THE HAWKS ON THE BUS GO DRINK AND SMOKE - By many accounts, the bus ride to and from the game was

of students' Vanier Antics included: weed and either the best or worst part experience. smoking cigarettes, puking,

-15 OUA All-Star 11 McDonald's and the entire back. selections, excessive drinking, peeing in bottles, getting lost, stopping at singing way - Third-year slotback Andy

Ist Team and four 2nd Team Baechler, describing the jawing

him he directed at after was

absolutely leveled in the first quarter -Pyear: Ist in Canada for comple-

tion percentage among quarter-

backs who played more than five "Complacency is the games (66.67 percent), Ist in TD

passes with 19, fewest sacks and disease of the in the OUA. interceptions successful."

- Cameron: sth in rushing (1025 - Offensive Coordinator Stefan yards), Bth in scoring (66) Ptaszek, on the desire of the

Laurier's football program to remain

- the for to Devlin: 2nd in Field Goal percent atop CIS years come (80.95), 2nd longest FG made (4/ yards) and 3rd in scoring (81) "He came out today

and he was just Ryan - Team Offence: 3rd in yds/game Pyear. That's all we (4/7.62), 2nd in points scored needed him to be." (330)

- Team Defence: 7th in yds/game - Vanier Cup defensive MVP David 3rd in allowed (332), points the Montoya, characterizing JordanJocius (114) performance of his team's

UR-INE TROUBLE - Saskatchewan fans home while most Laurier recall home went angry, supporters barely getting emotional leader.

at all, though vomit splatter and urine stains spanning the length of Highway 6 confirm their unscrupulous voyage.

"It kind of sucked a

bit."

- lan Logan displaying his

understanding of understatement,

while describing the Huskies' David

Stevens' ominous 85-yard fourth

quarter touchdown run

"If we didn't have

them, I don't think we

would've come out on

top today."

Joel - Fourth-year defensive back

their Wright, on the importance of

fans and cheerleaders

"I think our kids keep

proving that it doesn't

matter who is coming

next. We can take on all

the challenges."

Mike Whitehouse/www.laurierathletics.com

LEFT TO PROVE to WLU national title NOTHING - The above class of graduating seniors couldn't have asked for a better way finish their careers, winning a - Head Coach Gary Jeffries 24-23 win home crowd. with a last-second over the second-ranked Saskatchewan Huskies in their final game in front of a rowdy