The 67th

Grey Cup The Grey Cup (french: Coupe Grey) is both the championship game of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the trophy awarded to the victorious team playing in the namesake championship of professional Canadian football. The game is contested be ...

was played on November 25, 1979 before 65,113 fans at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. The

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defeated the Montreal Alouettes 17–9.

Box Score

First Quarter Edmonton - TD –

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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

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

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was called for clipping on an 85-yard punt return for a touchdown by Keith Baker. Edmonton had only four penalties. 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

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

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