SFU Football, an All You Can Eat 2012 primer: Coach Johnson’s view, a new...
BURNABY — Over a glorious span of just over seven minutes in the fourth quarter last Nov. 5, on its own Terry Fox Field atop Burnaby Mountain, everything that Simon Fraser Clan head coach Dave Johnson...
View ArticleHOC RE-VISITED: Ex-Centaurs star Durant puts injuries behind in new start...
HEAD OF THE CLASS RE-VISITED WEEK — LEMAR DURANT CLASS OF 2010 Centennial’s Lemar Durant at 2010 HOC photo shoot (PNG) BURNABY — Lemar Durant asked his body to do a lot of things for him on the...
View ArticleFormer prep star Keynan Parker returns home, set to play offence and defence...
BURNABY — Keynan Parker says its didn’t take him too long to regain his identity on the offensive side of the football. “The first couple of days were a little rough,” the former standout with...
View ArticleQUOTE EDITION: SFU’S depth overwhelms Pacific, Clan show a knockout blow in...
The Simon Fraser Clan had to put on a second-half comeback last season to defeat the Pacific University Boxers 36-28. On Thursday night, against the same foe in Forest Grove, Ore., the NCAA Div. 2 Clan...
View ArticleAll signs point up field, experts agree talent level in B.C. high school...
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds boast Canadian Interuniversity Sport’s reigning Most Valuable Player in Hec Crighton Trophy winner Billy Greene of Surrey’s Holy Cross Secondary. The NCAA Div. 2 Simon...
View ArticleCentral’s D-1 backfield pours it on, accounts for six TDs in win over Clan
BURNABY — Simon Fraser Clan head coach Dave Johnson keeps talking about how the talent level of the NCAA Div. 2′s Great Northwest Athletic Confernece is through the roof. If you were among the...
View ArticleUniversity wrap-up: Football ‘Birds struggle to find consistency, Clan fall...
VANCOUVER — Last season, the UBC Thunderbirds set a pretty high bar of who they were as a football team and what they could become moving forward following a 6-2 record season. Well, with one more game...
View ArticleClan coach offering no excuses, loss at Western Oregon was his team’s to win
Dave Johnson hated to be dispensing some of the universal axioms from the world of sport while sitting on the team bus bound for Burnaby Mountain late Saturday night. Yet the reality of a long day for...
View ArticleSimon Fraser quarterback Wheeler brings comeback pedigree to growing Clan...
BURNABY — Based on the kind of stuff that you simply can’t make up, the temptation is there to call Trey Wheeler the Comeback Kid. Of course, the Simon Fraser Clan’s sophomore starting quarterback will...
View ArticleBo Palmer, the little guy with the big wheels, drives Clan to key GNAC...
BURNABY — The Simon Fraser Clan have gone a little pass-happy this season, with a quarterback and a wide receiver who lead the Great Northwest Athletic Conference in passing and receiving yardage. Yet...
View ArticleSFU Clan’s powerhouse offence reaches a new high in 66-38 win over Azusa Pacific
BURNABY — Maybe the most interesting statistical oddity about Saturday’s football game at Simon Fraser University was that after 17 minutes of play, the host Clan’s No. 1-ranked offence had nothing...
View ArticleClan’s parade rained on, perfect storm opportunity washed away by W. Oregon...
BURNABY — Well before a fourth-quarter storm pelted sheets of freezing rain and hale over the proceedings Saturday afternoon atop Burnaby Mountain, Simon Fraser Clan head football coach Dave Johnson...
View ArticleParade blocks Clan bus, but Wheeler, Durant and SFU Clan still spoil the...
In a manner of speaking, it was almost like the Simon Fraser Clan football team was not even supposed to be a part of the afternoon’s festivities in St. George, Utah, the home of the Dixie State...
View ArticleClan vanquish GNAC leaders, SFU dips and soars and thrills in an upset of...
BURNABY — The playoff aren’t in the picture this season for the Simon Fraser Clan, but the local NCAA Div. 2 football team is playing with such joyful abandon down the stretch drive of its third Great...
View ArticleFrom Kaepernick to the Clan, Durant shows he’s still a big catch on football...
BURNABY — Lemar Durant made so many big catches this past season as the playmaking force of the Simon Fraser Clan, that talking about one of the most memorable drops of his young football career is...
View ArticleBreakthrough 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...
View ArticleSimon 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...
View ArticleSimon 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...
View ArticleWolves 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...
View ArticleClan 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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