MONTREAL -- McGill could move into first place in the RSEQ football league standings on Friday (Sept. 17) when the Redbirds (1-1) host Concordia (1-1) in the 52^nd Shaughnessy Cup rivalry game. Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m. at Percival Molson Stadium.
 
This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, tickets for all McGill home games, in any sport, will only be sold online. The cost is $20 for general admission, $10 for senior citizens, healthcare workers, McGill students and staff (with valid ID card) and $5 for children (16 and under).

Ticket sales will be capped at around 3,500, and will not be available at the Stadium although fans can still purchase them through their cellphones at the door, providing the game is not sold out. As per Quebec government protocols, a vaccination passport will be required to enter Molson Stadium.

For those who cannot make it to the venue, al home games will be streamed online on a pay-per-view platform. The cost is $6.99 for a single game, $19.99 for season sport pass and $39.99 for an all-access pass (which covers all home varsity sports).
 
ABOUT THE SHAUGHNESSY CUP: McGill is 23-27-1 in Cup history, including a 5-0-1 record against Loyola over the first six Cup confrontations. Concordia is 27-18 in 45 Cup meetings with McGill.
 
McGill enters this week's matchup looking for their second straight Cup victory after prevailing 40-14 in the last rendezvous back in 2019. It was the first Cup win for McGill head coach Ronald Hilaire after losing in each of the five previous years.
 
The Cup is named after legendary coach Frank Shaughnessy, a McGill Sports Hall of Fame inductee who introduced the forward pass to football in Canada during a 1921 McGill exhibition game against the NCAA's Syracuse Orangemen at Molson Stadium. He lobbied for 10 years before the league formally adopted the forward pass in 1931.
 
Shaughnessy, an American who played NCAA football and baseball at Notre Dame in the early 1900s, was the first full-time head coach in Canadian university football. After graduation, he played major league baseball with Washington (1905) and Philadelphia (1908).  He introduced the "option play" to American football while coaching at Yale and Cornell.

Shaughnessy was appointed bench boss at McGill in 1912 and guided the team for 17 years, including Yates Cup league championships in each of his first two years (1912, 1913), followed by one in 1919. The 1919 squad is renowned for not allowing a touchdown that season and was later inducted to the McGill Sports Hall of Fame.
 
Shaughnessy went on to coach at Loyola College, which eventually merged in 1974 with Sir George Williams University to form Concordia University.
 
THE McGILL-CONCORDIA LIFETIME SERIES: Since the rivalry began in 1975, McGill owns a 40-45 overall record in 85 lifetime meetings with the Stingers, including a 21-19 home-field mark at Percival Molson Stadium (and a 19-26 road record at Concordia Stadium). McGill has a current three-game win streak over the Stingers, sweeping the last season series between these cross-town rivals in 2019 -- winning 40-14 at home and 23-17 on the road -- which marked McGill's first sweep since 2013.

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SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
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