Football
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| First season | 1957 |
| Athletic director | Kevin Dickie |
| Head coach | Jeff Cummins |
| 8th year, 32–32–0 (.500) | |
| Other staff | Chris Judd (OC) |
| Home stadium | Raymond Field |
| Stadium capacity | 3000 |
| Stadium surface | FieldTurf |
| Location | Wolfville, Nova Scotia |
| League | CIS |
| Conference | AUS (1999 - present) |
| Past associations | AUAA (1974-1998) |
| All-time record | – |
| Postseason record | – |
| Vanier Cups | 2 1979, 1981 |
| Atlantic Bowl Championships | 4 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981 |
| Jewett Trophies | 12 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1986, 1995, 1998, 2005, 2006, 2011 |
| Hec Crighton winners | 3 Al Charuk, Bob Stracina, Bob Cameron |
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| Colours | Garnet and Blue
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| Fight song | Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show |
| Outfitter | Adidas |
| Website | acadiau.ca |
In their history, the Axemen Canadian football teams have appeared in four Vanier Cup national championships, winning two of those in 1979 and in 1981. Recently, the Axemen had their most success in the 2005, 2006 and 2011 seasons, when the teams finished first in the AUS and reached the Uteck Bowl all three years.
A low point to the program came in 2007-2009, which become known to those associated with the program as the "Keith Lockwood Era". Lockwood a junior college All-American for Harbor Junior college in California was only able to win 4 games in 3 years as the teams starting quarterback. Many believe that Lockwood was not suited to the Canadian brand of football as he had below average arm strength, and a lack of mental toughness.
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)