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

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Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...

. The

Edmonton Eskimos The Edmonton Elks are a professional Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. The club competes in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member of the league's West Division and plays their home games at the Brick Field at Comm ...

defeated the

Montreal Alouettes The Montreal Alouettes ( French: Les Alouettes de Montréal) are a professional Canadian football team based in Montreal, Quebec. Founded in 1946, the team has folded and been revived twice. The Alouettes compete in the East Division of the Cana ...

17–9.

Box Score

First Quarter Edmonton - TD –

Waddell Smith James Waddell Smith (born August 24, 1955 in New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American-born football player for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL) where he played for seven seasons from 1977 to 1983. He was an All-Star in 19 ...

43 yard pass from Tom Wilkinson (

Dave Cutler David Neil Cutler Sr. (born March 13, 1942) is an American software engineer. He developed several computer operating systems, namely Microsoft's Windows NT, and Digital Equipment Corporation's RSX-11M, VAXELN, and VMS. Personal history Cu ...

convert)
Montreal – FG –

Don Sweet Don Sweet (born July 13, 1948) is a former star football kicker for the Montreal Alouettes and Montreal Concordes of the Canadian Football League. College years Sweet graduated from Washington State University in 1971. He was a Pacific-10 Confer ...

38 yards Second Quarter Montreal – FG –

45 yards Third Quarter Montreal – FG –

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 The 65th Grey Cup, also known as The Ice Bowl, was played on November 27, 1977, at Montreal's Olympic Stadium. The hometown Montreal Alouettes defeated the Edmonton Eskimos by a score of 41–6. Game Summary The 1977 Grey Cup was Canada's versio ...

(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

Gerry Dattilio Gerry Dattilio (born June 11, 1953) is a former professional Canadian football quarterback in the Canadian Football League. Early years Dattilio played his high school football with the Chomedey Chiefs in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when ...

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

* Grey Cup

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