The local newspaper, the London Free Press, was diligently attending and recording all the games the Mustangs played. The University also has …

The official Football page for the University of Western Ontario Western Mustangs The next couple of seasons saw players like Don Getty, Murray Henderson, Bill Britton, John Girvin, Frank Cosentino, and Ed Meads all play for the Mustangs. Additionally, the cheerleading team has won the national championship 33 times, including 24 consecutive. The Western Mustangs play their home games at TD Stadium, located on the south side of campus. Alumni of the University of Western Ontario, List of University of Western Ontario people, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:University_of_Western_Ontario_alumni&oldid=918309059, Alumni by university or college in Ontario, Template Category TOC via CatAutoTOC on category with 601–900 pages, CatAutoTOC generates standard Category TOC, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 28 September 2019, at 01:34. With the help of Fielding Yost,[6] the stadium was built to proper football guidelines. The stadium held its last game in 1999, and the new TD Stadium was built in 2000. With this change, Western also started to play McMaster, Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier and Windsor in this new group.

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The Western Mustangs went on to win five Yates Cups in the 1950s. Known as 'rugby' or 'rugby football', this team joined a local junior league and played a small series of games that year. Videotaping, electronic score boards, and radio broadcasting were all brought to the games starting in the 1948 season.

The team is currently coached by Greg Marshall, who took over for Haylor in 2007 after his aforementioned retirement. The Western Mustangs football team has won seven Vanier Cup national championships, in 1971, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1989, 1994 and 2017. Mark Forsyth brings a wealth of experience to Western head coach Greg Marshall’s defensive staff in 2019 as the secondary coach.

Western football became a part of the London community and not just the student body. The team has had the most Vanier Cup national championship appearances, having made it to the title game 14 times (most recently in 2018). The Mustangs compete as a member of the Ontario University Athletics (OUA), under the U Sports association. By the 1960s, the Senior Intercollegiate league changed its name to the Ontario-Quebec Athletic Association and the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union started to include more Canadian universities. Former Head Coach Larry Haylor led the team from 1984 until his retirement in 2006, and held the Canadian Interuniversity Sport record for most wins as head coach. Into the 1950s, the Mustangs continued the excellent playing and Metras continued as the head coach.

The Western Mustangs football team (also known as the Western Ontario Mustangs) represents the University of Western Ontario in Canadian college football. Some notable players this year were Bob McFarlane, Don McFarlane, George Curtis, and quarterback Herb Ballantyne. Notable alumni from the University of Western Ontario. With some disappointing losses, the Mustangs did not win a single Yates Cup during this decade. Prior to this, Western only played three other teams in their regular season; Queen's, Toronto, and McGill.

The Mustangs have also won the Yates Cup conference championship 32 times in team history; more than any other Canadian University. 1 talking about this.

This (). ) [1] The Mustangs have won seven Vanier Cups, second only to the Laval Rouge et Or. The first early seasons of the decade saw good highlights, such as an 85-yard touchdown by John Wydareny in 1960 and a 99-yard touchdown by Whit Tucker in 1961. ( ); : The entry into the senior intercollegiate league in 1929 brought Western into the spotlight.

The Mustangs continued to play in league throughout the early 1930s, but had a mixed bag of wins and losses, but did win their first Yates Cup championship in 1931. By 1948, the team was attracting thousands of fans for every game and the CP Rail would run special trains to help accommodate getting the team, band, and fans to and from away games. Joe Breen became the head coach for the Senior Intermediate Team this year, with assistant coach Mitt Burt and Paul Hauch as captain. The J.W. There have been three former Western Mustang team members who have participated in the NFL Draft:[3] John Priestner (Baltimore Colts, 1979), Tyrone Williams (Phoenix Cardinals, 1992) and Vaughn Martin (San Diego Chargers, 2009). Forsyth, a native of Burlington , ON., joins the Mustang’s staff after spending the previous two seasons as the defensive back coach for the Guelph Gryphons. Little Memorial Stadium opened the following year on October 19, 1929 and was named after Colonel J.W. This was then expanded to 8,000 in future years.[6]. 1929 was the first year Western played senior football.

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The Mustangs compete as a member of the Ontario University Athletics (OUA), under the U Sports association. : [6], Improvements like an electronic scoreboard and a radio booth were added in 1948 and 1949, respectively. With their first full season in 1929, the Western Mustangs are one of the most decorated football teams in Canadian university history. Little, a former City of London mayor. Marshall won the Hec Crighton Trophy for most outstanding player in U Sports football as a player for the Mustangs in 1980 and has also coached professional football for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 2004-2006. By 1935, Breen retired as the head coach and Western football got a jumpstart when Bill Storen and John Metras came on as head coach and assistant coach this same year. The official 2019-20 Football schedule for the University of Western Ontario Western Mustangs Both coaches were very knowledgeable and skillful football players and with their guidance, the team gained more and more wins each year.

 

Known as the COTC Mustangs, they played in both Canada and American service and college teams. [4] In 1912, the Medical faculty students as well as the Arts faculty students joined and formed one team which played along with the local City of London team in the Junior Ontario Rugby Union. Opening day, Western's new senior intermediate team played Queen's University and lost 25-2.

Metras retired as the football coach in 1969, but stayed on as the Director of Athletics for Western.

The team lost their steam in 1963 with a 3-3 record.

One of the earliest known football games to have been played at Western was in 1908 by a group of medical students. [5], In 1928, construction began on the first stadium on campus.