27th_Grey_Cup

27th Grey Cup

27th Grey Cup

1939 Canadian Football championship game

The 27th Grey Cup was played on December 9, 1939, before 11,738 fans at Lansdowne Park at Ottawa.

Quick Facts Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Ottawa Rough Riders ...

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeated the Ottawa Rough Riders 8–7. The weekend of the match saw very low temperatures so the night before the game the groundskeepers attempted to warm the playing surface by lighting hundreds of litres of gasoline, nevertheless, the field was frozen again the next day.[1]

  • "Grey Cup: 1939". Canadian Football League. Archived from the original on 2011-11-06.
  • "The Grey Cup 1909-2009" (PDF). Canadian Football League. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-02.

References

  1. [1]
    "A look back at Ottawa's Grey Cup history". CBC News. Retrieved 2018-01-16.


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