Uteck Bowl

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The Uteck Bowl is one of the two semifinals in Canadian Interuniversity Sport men's football, held in the easternmost of the two semifinal venues. The Uteck Bowl champion moves on to face the Mitchell Bowl champion for the Vanier Cup.

[edit] History

The Atlantic Bowl was once a maritime tradition where the Atlantic University Sport champions would face a champion from another conference in front of a faithful crowd at Huskies Stadium. However, in the interests of competitive fairness, the Atlantic Bowl was replaced by the Mitchell Bowl, its venue, like the Churchill Bowl that had paralleled it for so long, rotating among two of the conference champions.

With the sudden death of Larry Uteck, a longtime Canadian football coach at Saint Mary's University and, at the time, the university's athletic director, it was decided that the Churchill Bowl would be retired, the Mitchell Bowl taking the place of the Churchill Bowl, and a new championship be named in Uteck's memory. Thus, the Uteck Bowl formally replaced the Atlantic Bowl.

The inaugural Uteck Bowl was played, appropriately enough, at Huskies Stadium, where two-time defending Vanier Cup champions and home team Saint Mary's Huskies defeated the newly formed Simon Fraser Clan (the clan had transferred to the CIS from NAIA that year) by one of the largest margins of victory for the Atlantic or Uteck Bowls.