Marauders set to take on Mounties for the Mitchell Bowl

The first CIS football game Marauders quarterback Marshall Ferguson ever saw was between McMaster and his hometown Queen’s Gaels.

Since then, he’s become one of only four Marauders quarterbacks to win a Yates Cup – no small feat, but one he hopes to top with a Mitchell Bowl win on Saturday.

“We never expected this,” he says. “We just focused on going 1-0 every week. But it really hit me the other day – we’re going to the Mitchell Bowl.”

Ferguson and the Marauders will welcome the Mount Allison Mounties for Saturday’s game, with the winner travelling to Montreal for next weekend’s Vanier Cup national championship.

It would be McMaster’s third trip to the final in four years.

The team won its first Vanier Cup in Vancouver in 2011 against Laval, and lost a rematch to the team the next year in Toronto.

No matter what happen, Saturday’s game will be Ferguson’s last at Ron Joyce Stadium. The fifth-year social sciences student will graduate this year and hopes to pursue a career in sports broadcasting.

In fact, he made headlines last week after rushing from his Yates Cup victory directly to the sidelines of Burridge Gym, where he called a doubleheader of Marauders basketball.

Ferguson says that no matter where he ends up, he’ll always be a Marauder at heart.

“Even my high school colours were garnet and grey,” he jokes. “My connection to this University will always be incredibly strong.”