Regardless of what games you choose to attend, there are some rules that cannot be ignored: show up, wear the colours, and be loud, bold, proud, and unafraid to get silly.
panda game
The Ontario University Athletics preseason rankings have put the Gee-Gees fourth in the conference behind Western, Guelph, and McMaster. There’s plenty of room for the Gees to succeed and make a deep run in the playoffs, and even take a crack at the national championship.
The Gees now have a 3-2 record going into the final three games of the regular season.
Five seconds left on the clock and your team is down by four points, more than half the field away, during one of the most important rivalry games of Canadian football. Scoring chances are all but gone, waning with every second.
The Carleton Ravens won the 2014 Panda Game 33–31 with just seconds left in the game. Check out how the game went down according to students and Fulcrum staff.
Reflecting on the long history of Gee-Gees football, one team stands out: reminiscing on Pandas past.
It’s not just another game on the schedule—the Panda Game is an event engrained deep in the fabric of Ottawa.
Thomas White was the sports editor of the Fulcrum in 1955, and he wanted to share his story about the origins of a tradition that will surely make a comeback in the 2013 football season after the resurrection of Carleton University’s football program. A week after the phone call, I received a handwritten letter from Thomas in the mail (complete with an Anthony Calvillo postage stamp), sharing the following memory, written in the third person:
