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Date | November 22, 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Stadium | Ivor Wynne Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | Hamilton | ||||||||||||||||||
Ted Morris Memorial Trophy | Julian Feoli Gudino, Laval WR | ||||||||||||||||||
Bruce Coulter Award | Marc-Antoine Fortin, Laval DL | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 13,873 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Network | The Score/The Score HD | ||||||||||||||||||
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The 44th Vanier Cup was played on November 22, 2008, at Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton, Ontario, and decided the CIS Football champion for the 2008 season. The Laval Rouge et Or dominated the Western Ontario Mustangs to win the championship 44-21, en route to a perfect 12-0 season. The win gave Laval its fifth Vanier Cup in school history and its fourth in the last six years.
Laval receiver Julian Feoli Gudino was awarded the Ted Morris Memorial Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the game after scoring a 74-yard punt return touchdown and an 82-yard touchdown reception. He finished the game with four receptions for 112 yards and three punt returns for 95 yards. Laval defensive lineman Marc-Antoine Fortin received the Bruce Coulter Award as the Most Outstanding Defensive Player of the game. Fortin had five solo tackles, three tackles for losses and one sack.
Western Ontario Mustangs (21) - TDs, Nick Trevail, Jesse Bellamy, Nathan Riva; cons., Darryl Wheeler (3).
Laval Rouge et Or (44) - TDs, Cesar-Roberto Hernandez-Sanchez, Julian Feoli Gudino (2), Mathieu Bouvette, Sébastien Lévesque; FGs Christopher Milo (3); cons., Christopher Milo (5).
The game started slowly at a snowy Ivor Wynne Stadium with only a 33-yard Laval field goal scored by kicker Christopher Milo in the first quarter. Milo scored another field goal at 3:18 of the second quarter and then Laval heated up with first a two-yard touchdown scored by a quarterback sneak by back-up Ceaser Hernandez-Sanchez and then, only a minute and half later, receiver Julian Feoli Gudino scored a 74-yard punt return touchdown, the third longest in Vanier history, to put the Rouge et Or up 20-0 midway through the second quarter. The Mustangs did respond quickly, however, when Ryan Tremblay returned the kickoff 62 yards, the longest kickoff return in Vanier history, and Western's possession ended with a 14-yard touchdown reception by Nick Trevail. Only 51 seconds later, that was nullified by Feoli Gudino again with an 82-yard pass reception from Laval QB Benoit Groulx, the fourth-longest TD catch in game history and the first half ended with Laval leading 27–7.