A half-century and more ago, from 1967 through 1972, there was a team – a football team called the Georgians – of Sir George Williams University in Montreal. Georgian football squads fought for the glory of their school at a time when life moved at a different pace than it does today.

There were years when a dirty dozen guys showed up for the first practice of the season and chose, over the next two weeks, to spend their study time (not so serious) and their party time (very serious) recruiting willing comrades at a sales booth in the Hall Building, just so they could field a team.

Recording a 6-4 record in their best season, Georgians were not renowned for their winning football tradition, but they were acclaimed for their relentless pursuit of a sensible life balance between rigorous physical conditioning and skills development, and equally rigorous off-field party disciplines.

Georgian dedication to this unique philosophical stance served to bond Georgian players of that era with a sense of camaraderie, dare I say love, for one another that most would expect to dissolve with time. But the love never died, and in 2017, exactly 50 years after Sir George Williams University’s first ever entry into Canadian football history, 33 Georgians gathered for a raucous 50th Anniversary Reunion, dubbed the 1st “Georgian Homecoming Huddle”, whereupon they founded the Georgian Football Club whose mission is to render eternal, their unique philosophy for Friendship, Football, Fun and Lifelong Learning.