BURNABY — The stormiest day yet in this tumultuous era of Simon Fraser Clan football hit hard Thursday with news that the school had fired head coach Kelly Bates after three winless seasons.
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Gavin Cobb: Fleet feet, fearless flow makes him SFU’s King of the Return Engagement
BURNABY — Gavin Cobb is back for his second season with the Simon Fraser Clan, and this time around, there is no better way to describe him than to call him the king of the return engagement.
SFU’s Brad Lyons travels long road to the shortest path, now life’s a rush for the Clan defensive end
BURNABY — As a pass rusher, Brad Lyons has always looked for the shortest and the quickest path into the opposition backfield.Yet it wasn’t until he finally settled on the school that is the shortest and quickest path from his high school days in Port Coquitlam that the 6-foot-4, 250-pound Lyons finally found the place […]
SFU’s makeshift O-line, QB Richardson impress, but Clan football falls in season opener
In keeping with the theme of last-minute school supply shopping, you could say that the offensive line that the Simon Fraser Clan debuted Saturday night in Phoenix was being held together by paper clips and scotch tape.Except when Clan head coach Kelly Bates marched out two pure freshmen and two converted defensive linemen, the makeshift […]
Soaking it all up, Clan senior linebacker Leech brings patience, Herdman-mentality to new starting role
BURNABY MOUNTAIN — As a health sciences major at Simon Fraser University, Clan middle linebacker Jordan Leech is aware of two different definitions of the word ‘osmosis’.
SFU football 2017: Top 4 things to watch along the Clan offence
It’s May 4, and the countdown to kickoff and the start of the 2017 Great Northwest Athletic Conference football season for the Simon Fraser Clan is exactly 120 days.