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27th Vanier Cup


Nominator(s): TBJ (talk) 02:37, 25 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

After a long break, I've returned to work my best to get this article into featured status. As previously stated in the original archived review, the article is about the 27th Vanier Cup, which was setted between two university teams from Canada, Wilfrid Laurier and Mount Allison, to determine the 1991 edition of the Vanier Cup It took place in the Skydome (Now Rogers Centre), in Toronto, Ontario, on November 30th, 1991. The plan is to turn this page, which was once a stub, into a featured status and put it on TFA for 11/30/26, for the game's 35th anniversary. This was originally peer reviewed by two individuals, Arconning and Z1720, who helped a lot in the process of the page. Every response will be directed with sincerity because I want to work hard to get this passed. Let's do this! TBJ (talk) 02:37, 25 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

RandomEdits

Hi TBJ, I see you're in a similar boat as me in that we've both submitted a FAC about a week ago and not got any responses yet. If you could have a look at mine that'd be greatly appreciated, but either way I'll be reviewing this over the next few days to see if we can get the ball rolling here. :) RandomEditsForWhenIRemember (talk) 13:18, 2 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, sorry for the late response, I had a lot of work and since I didn't get much traction, I didn't go on Wikipedia for a bit. I will be reading all responses now! @RandomEditsForWhenIRemember TBJ (talk) 18:45, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Ref check
  • Initial comments: It is nice to see you've taken snippets of the Newspapers refs so anyone can view these. I know a few reviewers take a little umbridge with the "via" attribute in the cite templates, but I think in this case it's fine since you've consistently used them.
  • www.communitystories.ca looked out of place for a website attribute, I've changed it to Digitial Museums Canada: Community Stories
  • I'm afraid you need to be consistent in wikilinking (or not doing so) the newspaper for each ref.
  • Could refs 1-3 be added to the body of text rather than the lede? I didn't spot anything there that felt like it couldn't be referenced later.
  • Refs 2 and 33 are the same I believe?

On to the actual refs check; this table lists 21 random passages from throughout the article (32.8% of 64 total passages). These passages contain 22 inline citations (32.4% of 68 in the article). Generated with the Veracity user script. RandomEditsForWhenIRemember (talk) 20:46, 4 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reference #LetterSourceArchiveStatusNotes
The game kicked off at 3 p.m. EST, with Mount Allison receiving the opening kickoff from placekicker Pat O'Leary. Wilfrid Laurier scored first with a punt single by O'Leary and a 36-yard field goal by Spiros Anastasakis, before running back Andy Cecchini capped a drive with a touchdown run to give the Golden Hawks an 11-point lead. Mount Allison answered with a 38-yard field goal by Eric Deegan, but trailed by seven points at halftime. In the third quarter, Laurier capitalized on a Mounties fumble when Cecchini scored his second touchdown of the game, then caught a 20-yard pass from quarterback Bill Kubas for another, extending the lead by twenty points. The Mounties responded with a trick play as running back Grant Kearney rushed for a touchdown, cutting the deficit to 24–11 after three quarters. In the fourth quarter, quarterback Sean Hickey connected with running back Mark Huys on a 38-yard touchdown pass, and Deegan's conversion narrowed the margin to 24–18. Laurier's offense stalled late, but O'Leary added a single in the final minute to secure a 25–18 victory for the Golden Hawks.
3newspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
and the Vanier Cup itself eventually began rotating host cities instead of being fixated in Toronto. In 2003, the 40th Vanier Cup was hosted by Hamilton at Ivor Wynne Stadium.
7newspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
The loss was the fourth of the season for Laurier, ending their season at a .500 winning percentage. Laurier players and coaches entered the off-season to improve from the year before, and were voted the No. 7 team in the country in the annual CIAU preseason poll.
9newspapers.comweb.archive.org ?I don't see anything there covering their previous season's winning percentage.
which was the 40th win in Rich Newbrough's tenure at WLU, and the Toronto Varsity Blues, 18–0.
13newspapers.comweb.archive.org ?I don't see anything for Newbrough's 40th win
After a dominant 42–9 victory over the York Yeomen,
15newspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
upsetting No. 1 ranked Western, 13–12,
18newspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
After the win against the Mustangs, the polls awarded Wilfrid Laurier No. 1 in the CIAU rankings heading into the championship game.
20newspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
In 1990, the Mounties had a bounce-back season, winning 5 contests in 6 games, tying themselves with the Saint Mary's Huskies for first place in the conference.
23newspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
The following week, the two teams played each other for the AUAA conference championship game, with the Huskies defeating the Mounties, yet again, by a score of 43–8, ending Mount Allison's season.
25newspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
On November 2, the Mounties defeated Saint Mary's, 24–21, clinching the #1 seed of the AUAA.
30newspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
The 1991 Vanier Cup kicked off at 3 p.m. EST on November 30, 1991, at the SkyDome, in Toronto. A crowd of 30,191 people attended the game in person,
33anewspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
Mount Allison won the coin toss and elected to receive. Wilfrid Laurier kicked off to the Mounties to begin the game.
36bd2o2figo6ddd0g.cloudfront.netweb.archive.org ?See below - might be struggling with the pdf's format but I don't see the coin toss mentioned?
During the third quarter, the Mounties squandered a fumble on their own 21-yard line, as Wilfrid Laurier's linebacker Marty Robinson pounced on the ball at the Laurier's 98 yard-line. The next play after, Kubas handed the ball off to Cecchini again for their second touchdown of the game. Wide receiver Ralph Spoltore of the Golden Hawks attempted to do a fake field goal however were stopped by the 1-yard line, keeping the score at 17–4. Later on in the quarter, on the 8th play of the drive, while 2nd and 12, Kubas completes a 20-yard pass to Cecchini once more for their third touchdown of the game. Anastasakis drilled an extra point conversion the play after, extending the Golden Hawks' lead to 24–4. However, near the end of the quarter, at the Allison's 35-yard line, quarterback Sean Hickey throws a bullet to wide receiver Sonny LaCroix who gains 37 yards on the drive. On the last play of the quarter, Hickey fakes themselves holding on to the football while running back Grant Keaney takes it from Mounties' offensive lineman Mike Jardine and takes it all the way down the field for a touchdown. Deegan converted on the extra point soon after to put Allison 24–11 after 3 quarters.
36ed2o2figo6ddd0g.cloudfront.netweb.archive.org Yes
The fourth quarter began with Laurier's defensive back Lonny Taylor advancing the ball from the 15-yard line to the 43. However, the Golden Hawks were unable to convert on that drive. On a 2nd and 10 drive, Kubas threw an interception to Mounties' linebacker Dave Luna, allowing Mount Allison to drive the ball down the field, with Hickey gaining many yards from running. A few plays later, Hickey finds running back Mark Huys wide open on the right side of the field for a 38-yard touchdown, with Deegan converting once more on the extra point. This made the score 24–18 in favour of the Golden Hawks. Later in the quarter, Kubas handed it off to Cecchini who drove the ball for 40 yards. After a few more running attempts from Cecchini and Brenner, O'Leary punts the football 24 yards out on, once again, another failed play by the Golden Hawks. On the next possession, 2nd and 9, at the Mounties' 18-yard line, Sean Hickey dodges a sack and throws a 32-yard completed pass to running back Guy Messervier. However, a blunder on communication by Hickey costed them as they were sacked on 3rd down, turning possession around to Laurier. After multiple attempts to run down the field, the Golden Hawks settled on a single by O'Leary for a 25–18 lead with 50 seconds to play in the quarter. Driving up the field, Mount Allison had one last chance to tie the game. However, after a sack on Hickey, the Mounties produced another fake play up to Keaney but fails to reach the 1st down line, falling 6 yards short. The possession was turned over on downs, allowing Laurier to kneel the football and win the Vanier Cup.
36fd2o2figo6ddd0g.cloudfront.netweb.archive.org Yes
It was later surpassed by Don Blair in the 31st Vanier Cup.
40newspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
At a statistic standpoint, the Golden Hawks surpassed or tied most outcomes against the Mounties, scoring more first downs, touchdowns, rushing yards, total offense and committed less fumbles.
41cnewspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
Despite Mount Allison losing the game, quarterback Sean Hickey won Offensive Player of the Game honors while linebacker George Wright wins the Defensive Player of the Game award.
42newspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
With the next pick, Calgary also selected Laurier's defensive back Tim Bisci.
43bnewspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
Wilfrid Laurier entered the 1992 season with hopes of following up its victory in the 27th Vanier Cup with another national championship. The Laurier's regular-season performance improved slightly from 1991, as they won an extra regular-season game against York.
47newspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
However, Laurier's dream to repeat falls short as they were upset in the OUA Semifinals by Western, 34–31, at Seagram Stadium.
49newspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes
No text found: citation may be in an infobox or table
36gd2o2figo6ddd0g.cloudfront.netweb.archive.org ?Nearly all good - I couldn't find anything about the coin toss though? Might just be me struggling with the pdf
41dnewspapers.comweb.archive.org Yes

Mostly looking good, just a few questions RandomEditsForWhenIRemember (talk) 20:46, 4 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  • Point #1: Thank you boss.
  • Point #2: Thank you boss for making the change.
  • Point #3: I was informed that you could link the first-use of links then keep it non-linked as long as it was mentioned once and it was the most recent citation, if that is what you're referring to.
  • Point #4: Questioning the Point; Would you much rather prefer that I place it during the fourth quarter section for Ref 1 and 3? Ref 2 looks to be mildly fine since it was mentioning the ratings.
  • Point #5: Thank you for pointing that boss.
I will make a separate comment on the box you mentioned above, thank you.
@RandomEditsForWhenIRemember TBJ (talk) 18:53, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I will be looking forward for making sure the references match your concerns. I am currently finishing an assignment for work that is due by the end of the week so I should be done hopefully by this weekend. TBJ (talk) 19:06, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks TBJ! These look fine to me now. I'll start adding comments on the prose tomorrow. RandomEditsForWhenIRemember (talk) 22:37, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Prose

Lede

  • 'and deciding game' -> and the deciding game.
  • I think the game's score is well covered by the rest of the article and so the ref can be removed.
  • "With the win, Wilfrid Laurier clinched the 1991 national championship, the team's first in its history." I think "clinched the 1991 national championship," since this is redundant with the knowledge they won the match. So something like "This was the first national championship Wilfrid Laurier won in their team history." is sufficient.
  • "For his performance in the game, Wilfrid Laurier wide receiver Andy Cecchini was named a recipient of the Teddy Morris Memorial Trophy," If someone had to win the trophy, "named the year's recipient" probably works better.
  • I think the overview of the match is fine here, though I will admit I don't read many FA match articles. It seems to match what I've seen on pages like 2003 Insight Bowl though, perhaps one for a later reviewer to weigh in on.
  • Like ref 1, ref 3 can probably be referenced elsewhere in the page.

Road to the Vanier Cup

  • The intro is somewhat clunky to read through in my eyes, I would look to tighten this up a bit more. For example, combining the first two sentences to something like "Under the 1991 playoff format, the two finalists reached the Vanier Cup by winning the national semifinals, which at the time consisted of the Churchill Bowl and Atlantic Bowl."
  • Likewise, I think you can remove "At the time".
  • Everything beyond 1991 doesn't need to be included either since the events of the 27th Cup don't care about them.
  • All the text before we jump to 2002 doesn't appear to be sourced?

Wilfrid Laurier

  • There's a lot of informal phrasing here. "greatly surpassed its expectations", "finding themselves", "were hammered by their rivals," "blowing out", "cinderella run" etc. Phrases like 'dominate' are fine.
  • "The following three weeks saw explosion of as Laurier routed the McMaster Marauders, 37–14," I'm not sure what this means. In general so far there's been a fair few sentences where it looks like words are missing.
  • "Wilfrid Laurier had greatly surpassed its expectation as the No. 7 ranked team in the country, winning their first four games of the 1991 season, starting with them defeating Guelph, 27–23 at Seagram Stadium, where wide receiver Andy Cecchini sets the OUAA's career rushing record" This sentence should be split up if possible. "sets" is also the wrong tense.
  • "In Week 5, Wilfrid Laurier faced off against the Western Mustangs, who were undefeated as well, losing 56–37 at J. W. Little Memorial Stadium" -> In Week 5, Wilfrid Laurier lost to the undefeated Western Mustangs 56–37 at J. W. Little Memorial Stadium. There's a few sentences here that could likewise be trimmed.
  • "Newbrough, was named CIAU Coach of the Year, the second coach in team history to be honoured up to that point, after Tuffy Knight." No need for a comma after Newbrough. Tuffy isn't mentioned in the ref.

Mount Allison

  • The talk about Allison's 1990 could be summed up more succinctly since that doesn't directly effect the 1991 run. A few tense issues appear again (eg "They both play a tiebreaker")
  • It would be nice if possible to include some insight from either the players or coaches. Are there any comments or quotes that could be included here?
  • Best to swap that #1 seed to number 1.
  • To summarise for both teams' sections, this bit currently reads more informally than I'd like and uses a lot of promotional language that probably isn't the best fit for an encyclopaedia page; the tone is more similar to a sports article at the moment. I would suggest trimming some of the game-by-game detail and replacing the more informal parts with more neutral prose.

Game summary

  • A crowd of 30,191 people attended the game in person,[2] and was estimated to have over 600 thousand people watched the game's television broadcast on TSN.[2] This is nearly the same phrasing as the lede at the moment (also you can remove the lede's ref for this as well since you reference the audience count here).
  • "a play that they scored a touchdown on by running back Andy Cecchini from Laurier's 99-yard line on 3rd and goal including a point conversion," I'm not a football expert but I can't follow this. Laurier scored from a run from their own line?
  • "The second quarter was promising for Mount Allison." Remove. Let the reader decide this since you're citing a primary source.
  • "who recovered a fumble off of Laurier's slotback Craig Brenner who ran into their team's first down line as Mounties' defensive back John Kosempei returned the football 32 yards." I can't follow this.
  • This proved to be crucial. This is also editorial.
  • converts on a -> converted on a
  • "squandered a fumble" Teams don't "squander" fumbles; they commit or lose them
  • "Wide receiver Ralph Spoltore of the Golden Hawks attempted to do a fake field goal however were stopped by the 1-yard line," "he was stopped" perhaps?
  • "Hickey fakes themselves holding on to the football while running back Grant Keaney takes it from Mounties' offensive lineman Mike Jardine and takes it all the way down the field for a touchdown" This is a really big run on sentence. At the very least a few commas are needed.
  • "A few plays later, Hickey finds running back Mark Huys wide open on the right side of the field for a 38-yard touchdown, with Deegan converting once more on the extra point." Tense
  • "costed them"
  • "one last chance to tie the game" again, journalistic
  • "a blunder on communication by Hickey" I can't see in the ref where this is attributed to a communication fail?
  • There are more issues here, but to summarise: To me, this feels like a very long play-by-play summary of the match, which I could already get from the source you provided. It reads fairly repetitively, and in my opinion focuses too much on the details that aren't too important. This isn't helped by the tense issues and other grammar issues, and similar to the above sections I think another audit is required to make the text less informal. As it stands, I was struggling to find this part engaging unfortunately. That being said, I quite like the scoring summary table you include below it.

I'm very sorry, but while there's another section I don't think I'm able to support this being approved to FA at this time. There's quite a lot of issues I found during one read through here, with I think the main one is that it comes off as more journalistic than encyclopaedic currently. This by itself isn't a criticism, but is a problem when aiming for FA status.

Have you considered taking this page through the GA process? I noticed in your peer review Z1720 suggested you take it down that route first; with some brush-up work this should be able to reach that, and they might be able to give you some pointers from there (or suggest a suitable sports FA mentor to help).

No offense taken if you'd like to ping one of the more sports-oriented FA reviewers for a second opinion on this. Best of luck with future work on this page.

Reviewed version: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=27th_Vanier_Cup&oldid=1358446187

Oppose RandomEditsForWhenIRemember (talk) 22:56, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Okay... TBJ (talk) 23:07, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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