The 63rd Grey Cup

Grey Cup

The Grey Cup is both the name of the championship of the Canadian Football League and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team. It is Canada's largest annual sports and television event, regularly drawing a Canadian viewing audience of about 3 to 4 million individuals...

was played on November 23, 1975 before 32,454 fans at McMahon Stadium

McMahon Stadium

McMahon Stadium is a Canadian football stadium located in Calgary, Alberta. The stadium is owned by the University of Calgary and operated by the McMahon Stadium Society....

 at Calgary

Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

. The Edmonton Eskimos

Edmonton Eskimos

The Edmonton Eskimos are a Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They currently play in the West Division of the Canadian Football League . Edmonton is currently the third-youngest franchise in the CFL, although there were clubs with the name Edmonton Eskimos as early as 1895...

 won an extremely close game, decided on the last play, against the Montreal Alouettes

Montreal Alouettes

The Montreal Alouettes are a Canadian Football League team based in Montreal, Quebec.The current franchise named the Alouettes moved to Montreal from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1996 where they had been known as the Baltimore Stallions...

 by the score 9 to 8.

Box Score

First Quarter

Montreal – FG – Don Sweet

Don Sweet

Don Sweet, , was a star football kicker for the Montreal Alouettes and Montreal Concordes of the Canadian Football League.-College years:...

 35 yards

Montreal – FG – Don Sweet

Don Sweet

Don Sweet, , was a star football kicker for the Montreal Alouettes and Montreal Concordes of the Canadian Football League.-College years:...

 47 yards

Second Quarter

Edmonton - FG – Dave Cutler 40 yards

Montreal - Single – Don Sweet

Don Sweet

Don Sweet, , was a star football kicker for the Montreal Alouettes and Montreal Concordes of the Canadian Football League.-College years:...

 32 yard missed field goal

Third Quarter

Edmonton - FG – Dave Cutler 25 yards

Edmonton - FG – Dave Cutler 52 yards

Fourth Quarter

Montreal - Single – Don Sweet

Don Sweet

Don Sweet, , was a star football kicker for the Montreal Alouettes and Montreal Concordes of the Canadian Football League.-College years:...

 19 yard missed field goal

Teams	1 Q	2 Q	3 Q	4 Q	Final
Edmonton Eskimos	0	3	6	0	9
Montreal Alouettes	6	1	0	1	8

Game summary

Perhaps the toughest part of the game was the early winter Prairie weather. The temperature was minus -15 degrees Celsius. The 25 kilometre per hour wind played havoc with passing and kicking.

With just 3:49 to play, Sonny Wade

Sonny Wade

Sonny Wade born April 1, 1947 in Martinsville, Virginia, a graduate of the "powerhouse" football program at Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and played for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League from 1969 to 1978....

 came off the Alouettes bench to replace Alouettes starting quarterback Jimmy Jones

Jimmy Jones

Jimmy Jones may refer to:*Jimmy Jones , American jazz pianist*Jimmy Jones , American singer/songwriter*Jimmy Jones , footballer who played for Stoke...

. Trailing 9-7 and starting from the Montreal 23 yard line, Wade threw a 26-yard bullet to Larry Smith. He then faked a reverse to Johnny Rodgers

Johnny Rodgers

Johnny Steven Rodgers is a former American college football player voted the University of Nebraska's "Player of the Century" and the winner of the 1972 Heisman Trophy.-College career:...

 and threw a 46-yard pass to Joe Petty.

The Larks then had a chance for the game winning field goal in the final seconds of the game, but Jones mishandled the snap from centre. Don Sweet

Don Sweet

Don Sweet, , was a star football kicker for the Montreal Alouettes and Montreal Concordes of the Canadian Football League.-College years:...

’s 19 yard attempt went wide for a single point.

Trivia

Edmonton and Montreal have met in 11 Grey Cup

Grey Cup

The Grey Cup is both the name of the championship of the Canadian Football League and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team. It is Canada's largest annual sports and television event, regularly drawing a Canadian viewing audience of about 3 to 4 million individuals...

 clashes. The Alouettes have prevailed in 1974, the Ice Bowl of 1977, and 2002. The Eskimos have won in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1975, 1978, 1979, 2003 and 2005.

This was the third Grey Cup final in which a touchdown was not scored (the others were the 21st Grey Cup

21st Grey Cup

The 21st Grey Cup game was the Canadian football championship in 1933. Toronto Argonauts defeated Sarnia Imperials 4–3 at Sarnia's Davis Field on December 9 before a crowd of 2,751....

 and the 25th Grey Cup

25th Grey Cup

The 25th Grey Cup was played on December 11, 1937, before 11,522 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto.The Toronto Argonauts defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 4 to 3....

.

It was the only Grey Cup

Grey Cup

The Grey Cup is both the name of the championship of the Canadian Football League and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team. It is Canada's largest annual sports and television event, regularly drawing a Canadian viewing audience of about 3 to 4 million individuals...

where one player from each team was responsible for all the points.

It was the first time since 1945 that all the points were scored by Canadians.