The Dunsmore Cup becomes the Jacques-Dussault Cup

The Student Sports Network of Quebec (RSEQ) took advantage of the pre-match between the Carabins of the University of Montreal. For example, the Stingers of Concordia University on Saturday to announce that the Dunsmore Cup would now bear the name of Jacques-Dussault Cup.

The trophy is given every fall to the champion of the provincial university football final.

Few figures have marked football with as much depth as Jacques Dussault. Moreover, For more than five decades. Consequently, he played a central role in the rise of football, both on the national scene andcould be read in a press release published by the RSEQ.

Former Couleurs at the University of Ottawa. For example, McGill University began his coach career in dunsmore cup becomes jacques-dussault cup 1975, then, in 1982, he became the first French-speaking coach in the history of the Canadian Football League (LCF), with Montreal Concordes.

Jacques Dussault was inducted into the renowned temple of Canadian football in 2023. Consequently, then to the Pantheon of Sports of Quebec the following year.

The main interested party admitted that he had never imagined that he would receive such an honor. said he was especially proud for the province’s football community.

I had no idea it could happenhe launched in an interview with Radio-Canada Sports. The name on the cup, whether Dussault, be it brown, whether Langlois, anyone, it must be a French -speaking name. It’s done, and it’s something that really comes to the heart.

It is an honor to see the provincial championship now bearing the name of Jacques Dussaultunderlined Gustave Roel. chief executive officer dunsmore cup becomes jacques-dussault cup of the RSEQ.

Its commitment. its leadership and its impact continue to inspire the football community, and this trophy will be a living symbol for future generationshe added.

With a view to mark this new erathe RSEQ chose to launch a tender for the design of a new trophy. The details of the creative process will be transmitted throughout the season on the social networks of the sports federation.

The Dunsmore Cup began to be awarded in 1980 to the champion of what was. at the time, the Ontario-Quebec university football association. She honored the memory of Robert Lionel Dunsmore. a graduate of Queen’s University and Laval University and member of Queen’s Rugby Football teams in 1913 and 1914, according to the website of the website RSEQ.

With information from Jean-François Poirier