Click on the video player above to watch&nbsp;an encore presentation of&nbsp;the 2019 Vanier Cup in Laval, Que between the Calgary Dinos and Carabins de Montreal.

Vanier Cup dominance shows how big football is in la belle province: Russell

The Vanier Cup has been dominated by French language institutions over the last two decades and as Scott Russell writes, that's due to a proliferation of high school and community college teams across the vast geography of Quebec. According to former Mount Allison star Eric Lapointe, everybody is playing "our beautiful game" in la belle province.

Members of the Montreal Carabins head from the field after defeating the Acadia Axemen in Uteck Bowl university football action in Wolfville, N.S. on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. Montreal won 38-0 and advance to the national championship Vanier Cup.

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Montreal's Louis-Philippe Simoneau kicks aside cancer en route to Vanier Cup

When Louis-Philippe Simoneau was diagnosed with aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma in February, getting back on the gridiron was an immediate priority.

After beating cancer in the off-season, Montreal senior Louis-Philippe Simoneau will make his final U Sports appearance in the Vanier Cup when his Carabins take on the Calgary Dinos on Saturday.

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