page_title: Sport in Saskatchewan
section_title: Football
hierarchical_section_title: Sport in Saskatchewan / Team sports / Football
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context_page_description: Sport in Saskatchewan includes ice skating, speed skating, curling, curling bonspiels, snowboarding, snow golf, broomball, ice hockey, badminton, and curling. Summer sports abound: among these are school track and field days, community rodeos, golf tournaments, and sporting events such as baseball, softball, and snowmobile, snowmobile rallies. School teams usually feature baseball, basketball, field hockey, Association football or soccer, lacrosse, football, rugby, and wrestling. Popular individual sports include auto racing, boxing, cycling, golf, hiking, horse racing, ice skating, skateboarding, skiing, swimming, tennis, triathlon, track and field, and water sports. Other sports include tobogganing, sailing, rowing, trap shooting, lawn bowling, and horseshoe. Saskatchewan speed skaters have enjoyed recent success in the Olympics in Salt Lake City and Turin. The Saskatchewan Olympic medalists include Catriona Le May Doan, Jason Parker and Justin Warsylewicz.
context_section_description: The Hardy Trophy is a Canadian sports trophy awarded to the winner of the Canada West Football Conference.   The winners of the Uteck Bowl (formerly Atlantic Bowl) and the Mitchell Bowl (formerly the Churchill Bowl) compete to achieve the Vanier Cup which is the championship trophy of Canadian Interuniversity Sport CIS. The University of Saskatchewan Huskies and Regina Rams compete in Canadian Interuniversity Sport.
  Currently, the Huskies are recognized as one of the top programs in Canada, due to their success in recent years. They have won three Vanier Cup championship and participated in six more. The Huskies have also won 19 Hardy Trophy championships as Canada West Universities Athletic Association (CWUAA) champions. The Rams on the other hand have not achieved the same level of success as the Huskies. Mainly this is due to the Rams being a fairly new CIS program. The Rams affiliated themselves with the University of Regina in time for the 1999 season. They won the Hardy Trophy in 2000 and advanced to the Vanier Cup, losing to the Ottawa Gee-Gees 42-39. However, prior to joining the CIS, the Rams were widely considered one of the top CJFL programs. They captured 15 Canadian Bowl championships during their tenure.
  Canadian Junior Football League has two Saskatchewan teams competing in the Prairie Football Conference; Saskatoon Hilltops and Regina Prairie Thunder. Previous Regina teams were the Regina Bombers, Regina Dales, Regina Pats, and Regina Rams. The Regina Rams joined with the University of Regina Canadian Interuniversity Sport CIS in 1999. There was at one time also, the Moose Jaw Maroons.
  The Canadian Football League is a professional football league. The Saskatchewan Roughriders were called the Regina Rugby Club, Regina Roughriders and nicknamed the "Western Riders" or "Green Riders". The Saskatchewan Roughriders  belong to the Western Interprovincial Football Union (WIFU). The winners of the Western Conference Final and the Eastern Conference final meet to achieve the Grey Cup. The Canadian Football League West Division organisation has evolved from the Western Canada Rugby Football Union, WCRFU; Western Interprovincial Football Union, WIFU; Western Football Conference, WFC; to the present format called the West Division.  Saskatchewan Roughriders home games are played at Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field in Regina, Saskatchewan. On November 25, 2007, the Riders played the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the 95th Grey Cup, Saskatchewan won 23 – 19. The Canadian Football Hall of Fame honours achievements in Canadian football, of which the Riders have several members.
caption: BC Lions vs. Saskatchewan Roughriders
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