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Breakthrough 2012 season creates new challenges for Simon Fraser Clan...
BURNABY MOUNTAIN — Somewhere along the road to respectability in its new life as an NCAA football program, the Simon Fraser Clan became relevant enough within the world’s largest collegiate sports...
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Simon Fraser’s well-traveled new QB Stanford set to kick of 2013 GNAC season...
BURNABY — Ryan Stanford, when pushed for an answer, admits things are a little bit different living life at the only non-U.S. school in the NCAA. “Yeah, little differences,” the Arizona native and new...
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Road warrior SFU Clan roughs up Humboldt State, O Canada gets it done in...
There was a lot to think about after one of the biggest wins in the early history of Simon Fraser’s steady rise as an NCAA Div. 2 football program. On the heels of a 41-27 upset win over host Humboldt...
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Simon Fraser rallies with two late TDs to top host Central Washington, move...
An ankle injury kept its All-American wide receiver on the sidelines. It had exactly zero yards of offence and no first downs in the third quarter until it managed a key 13-yard completion on its final...
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Wolves prey on lacklustre Clan, SFU coach wants players to read the writing...
BURNABY — They came in undefeated, having previously hit the road to knock off its conference’s two preseason favourites. And last week, for the first time in program history, the Simon Fraser Clan had...
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Clan football stalls, falls at Dixie State, key offensive cogs may return in...
The good news for the Simon Fraser Clan is that starting quarterback Ryan Stanford and top wide receiver Lemar Durant are showing enough progress from injuries that each could be ready to don game-day...
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Azusa RB Watson breaks Christian Okoye’s school rushing mark as hosts rally...
On a night when big plays helped them build a 20-point halftime lead, big plays also took their breath away. That was the story for the Simon Fraser Clan football team, who wound up on the short end of...
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No shortage of try, but turnovers de-rail football Clan’s bid to halt a GNAC...
BURNABY — When you’re a football team trying desperately to re-kindle the mojo of a 2-0 start and stop a four-game losing streak in its tracks, there is often times a tendency to try and do a little...
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Clan football finding ways to lose, latest gaffes obscure skill, work ethic...
BURNABY — The Simon Fraser Clan keep working and hoping they will hit the next gear, but on Saturday, a few days after Halloween, they put themselves and their fans through a frightening four quarters...
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11.10.13: Catching up on what caught our eye the most over the busy...
Soccer grabbed the headlines with CIS national championships for both men and women. But there was so much else happening. Here’s what’s percolating the most as we head into another week of...
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Growing pains, off-season concerns all part n’ parcel of evolution of Clan...
BURNABY — Say what you want about them, but the Simon Fraser Clan football team, as they have done all season, can look like a Great Northwest Athletic Conference title contender and a cellar dweller …...
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Motion the new Clan potion, SFU players delighted with Chapdelaine’s...
BURNABY MOUNTAIN — Based simply on its geographic location, the Simon Fraser Clan football team has been an outlier amongst its all-U.S. competition in the NCAA’s Great Northwest Athletic Conference....
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SFU FOOTBALL 2014: Chapdelaine era begins with nervous energy, loss to Menlo...
BURNABY — It’s not often that a team will come away with four interceptions and lose a football game. And it’s not often that the same team will fumble three times, lose all of them, yet still have a...
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Clan brings aerial attack, but turnovers bite again as SFU falls to Wolves in...
The Simon Fraser Clan produced over 400 yards of passing offence but weren’t able to make it count in the win column Saturday as the Great Northwest Athletic Conference campaign opened at Burnaby’s...
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Clan battle to final whistle, but D1 Idaho State too much for Simon Fraser...
To give some perspective as to the strength of football team the Simon Fraser Clan faced on the road in its 66-14 non-conference loss Saturday to the Big Sky Conference’s Idaho State Bengals, consider...
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Clan football 2014: Yes, they can run! Chaps faith in ground game carries...
BURNABY — The fan club for the Simon Fraser Clan’s run game likely went into Saturday’s football game against the visiting South Dakota School of Mines Hardrockers with a membership no deeper than...
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Another tough day for B.C.’s university football teams: Clan and ‘Birds each...
It’s been a tough football season for fans of the Simon Fraser Clan and UBC Thunderbirds. On Saturday, both went winless at home, UBC’s utterly disappointing campaign coming to an end with a 38-18 loss...
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SFU’s Stephen Spagnuolo: A Clan football career worth celebrating for all the...
BURNABY — Listen to the emotion in his voice, and you get the idea that even Stephen Spagnuolo himself is a little surprised that he’s been able to finish his college football career the way he always...
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Clan football 2015: Countdown is on as Simon Fraser prepares to open Kelly...
BURNABY — New lockers. A new players lounge. Big-screen TVs. There’s a lot to take in when you tour the newly-refurbished football centre at Simon Fraser University. Yet the one thing that stands out...
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HOMECOMING 2015: UBC’s biggest football crowd in a quarter-century goes home...
When Blake Nill was hired this past winter as the new head coach of the UBC Thunderbirds football team, one of the first things he referenced in terms of a drawing card to leave his post at the...
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Paopao comes full circle, veteran grid guru, OC mentors Clan senior...
BURNABY — Ryan Stanford had spent the first four years of his college quarterbacking career playing under four different offensive coordinators. So when the news broke this past winter that the Simon...
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SFU Clan’s rapid improvement masked by loss to two-time GNAC champion Azusa...
BURNABY — On Saturday, the Simon Fraser Clan football team looked like a completely different team than the one which opened its NCAA Div. 2 season last week after allowing the final 25 points of a...
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SFU football 2015: Despite loss a to Dixie State, RB Litre emerges as a...
BURNABY — Ante Litre is a glass half-full kind of guy. “Everything was an inch short today,” the Simon Fraser Clan’s bruising junior running back sighed Saturday after his team came out on the short...
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Big plays continue to be winless Clan’s undoing, opposition’s spate of home...
BURNABY — When Simon Fraser Clan punter Nikolai Karpun placed a 43-yard effort that rolled down to the one-yard line of the visiting Western Oregon Wolves on Saturday afternoon, first-year SFU head...
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