Number: | 39 |
Type: | Grey Cup |
Date: | November 24, 1951 |
Stadium: | Varsity Stadium |
City: | Toronto |
Visitor Name: | Saskatchewan Roughriders |
Visitor Colour: | Saskatchewan Roughriders |
Home Name: | Ottawa Rough Riders |
Home Colour: | Ottawa Rough Riders |
Visitor Coach: | Harry Smith |
Home Coach: | Clem Crowe |
Visitor Record: | 8–6 |
Home Record: | 7–5 |
Visitor1: | 2 |
Visitor2: | 0 |
Visitor3: | 0 |
Visitor4: | 12 |
Home1: | 6 |
Home2: | 6 |
Home3: | 7 |
Home4: | 2 |
Attendance: | 27,341 |
The 39th Grey Cup was the Canadian Football League's championship game of the 1951 season, played on November 24, 1951.
The Ottawa Rough Riders defeated the Saskatchewan Roughriders 21–14 at Toronto's Varsity Stadium before a crowd of 27,341 fans in the first Grey Cup match-up between the two similarly named teams.
Saskatchewan Roughriders (14) - TDs, Jack Nix, Sully Glasser; cons., Red Ettinger (2); singles, Glenn Dobbs (2).
Ottawa Rough Riders (21) - TDs, Benny MacDonell, Pete Karpuk, Alton Baldwin; cons., Bob Gain (3); singles, Bruce Cummings (2), Tom O'Malley.