67th Grey Cup
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Date | November 25, 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Stadium | SRC | ||||||||||||||||||
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The 67th
Box Score
First Quarter
Edmonton - TD – Waddell Smith 43 yard pass from Tom Wilkinson (Dave Cutler convert)
Montreal – FG – Don Sweet 38 yards
Second Quarter
Montreal – FG – Don Sweet 45 yards
Third Quarter
Montreal – FG – Don Sweet 29 yards
Edmonton - TD – Tom Scott 33 yard pass from Warren Moon (Dave Cutler convert)
Edmonton – FG – Dave Cutler 38 yards
Fourth Quarter
No scoring
Teams | 1 Q | 2 Q | 3 Q | 4 Q | Final |
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Edmonton Eskimos | 7 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 17 |
Montreal Alouettes | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
Trivia
Unlike previous Grey Cups, especially the 65th Grey Cup (or Ice Bowl) in 1977 in Montreal, the temperature was a balmy 12 degrees Celsius.
The Alouettes were penalized 16 times in the game, the most back-breaking call coming late in the fourth quarter when
Despite winning the game, the Eskimos were shut out of the Most Valuable Player and Most Valuable Canadian awards, all of which went to Alouette players.
Edmonton and Montreal have met in 11 Grey Cup clashes. The Eskimos prevailed in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1975, 1978, 1979, 2003 and 2005's overtime thriller. The Als were victorious in 1974, the Ice Bowl of 1977, and 2002.
As of 2021, the 1979 game is the last Grey Cup in which a team was held to a single-digit point total.
External links
- "Grey Cup: 1979". Canadian Football League. Archived from the original on 2015-11-01.