35th Grey Cup
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| Date | November 29, 1947 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stadium | Varsity Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Toronto | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 18,885 | ||||||||||||||||||
The35thGrey Cupwas played on November 29, 1947, before 18,885 fans atVarsity StadiumatToronto.[1]
This was the last Grey Cup to be won by a team with all Canadian players.[2]
TheToronto Argonautsdefeated theWinnipeg Blue Bombers10–9. This was the third year in a row that these two teams had met each other for the final game of the season.[3]The game had one of the most exciting finishes inGrey Cuphistory. Winnipeg had jumped out to a 9 to 0 lead but found the game tied in the last minute. Blue Bomber's all-starBob Sandberg,who had scored his team's only touchdown, tried to fake a kick, but the ruse didn't work. Argo's starJoe Krolscored a final rouge to snatch the victory. The Argonauts were presented with the Grey Cup, which had survived a fire that year when the Toronto Argonauts Rowing Club building had burned down.[3]
References
[edit]- ^"Winnipeg Blue Bombers surprise ex-player after learning he’d suffered a heart attack".Global News,December 23, 2015 By Elton Hobson
- ^"Grey Cup quiz answers explained".The Globe and Mail,Nov. 24, 2012
- ^ab"Rewind: The Grey Cup Part One".CBC Radio,host Michael Enright. November 19, 2015
External links
[edit]- "Grey Cup: 1947".Canadian Football League. Archived fromthe originalon 2010-08-23.
- "The Grey Cup 1909-2009"(PDF).Canadian Football League. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2010-12-02.