St. Francis Xavier X-Men football

The St. Francis Xavier X-Men football team represents the St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, in the sport of Canadian football in U Sports. The X-Men program has been competing at the varsity level since 1954 and won the second ever Vanier Cup national championship in 1966. The team has played in two National Championship games overall when they were runners-up in 1996 and have won 16 conference championships in total.

Championships

Champions: 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1996
Runner-Up: 1958, 1962, 1967, 1978, 1982, 1983
In 1983 the AUAA was in a dispute with the CIS (formerly CIAU) over the Atlantic Bowl being played at Saint Mary's, in Halifax, on annual basis. Calgary received a bye to the CIAU Championship game.

Champions: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1996, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023

The X-Men have won the Atlantic Conference Championship 16 times and have been runners-up an additional 12 times.

J. P. Metras Trophy: Tony Grassa (1981), Mike Kushnir (1997)
Peter Gorman Trophy: Joey Tynes (1979), Andre Arlain (1994), Paul Carty (1997), Jeremy Steeves (2001)
Frank Tindall Trophy: John Stevens (1997), Gary Waterman (2022)

In the 2011 CFL draft, HÃÂ©noc Muamba became the first X-Men player to be selected first overall in the Canadian College Draft, having been drafted by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

As of the end of the 2025 CFL season, three former X-Men players are on CFL teams' rosters: