The Grey Cup a.k.a. The Mud Bowl

A photograph from a full page article of The Globe and Mail on the Toronto Argonauts' Grey Cup (aka. Mud Bowl) victory on November 27, 1950. Article written by Hal Walker, photograph taken by Harry McLorinan, and sourced from Newspapers.com.

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Toronto vs. Winnipeg

What could go wrong when playing football in November in Toronto? Everything. A heavy snowfall on Grey Cup eve in November 1950 covered the field at Varsity Stadium and attempts to clear the snow damaged the playing surface. Then, an extremely heavy rainfall on game day turned the field into a literal mud bowl. The 27,101 spectators watched a slow-moving slog of a game in which the hometown Toronto Argonauts outlasted the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Toronto scored 13 points, and Winnipeg scored none. The Argonauts only needed that first point to win, and they secured it when Winnipeg failed to return a punt out of the end zone – an only-in-Canada scoring play known as a rouge.

A photograph from a full page article of The Globe and Mail on the Toronto Argonauts' Grey Cup (aka. Mud Bowl) victory on November 27, 1950. This image is captioned "Blue Bombers in vain attempt to block kick as Joe (King) Krol performs his brilliant old-time form." Article written by Hal Walker, photographs taken by Turnicky?, (Richard) Cole and Harry McLorinan, and sourced from Newspapers.com.
A photograph from a full page article of The Globe and Mail on the Toronto Argonauts’ Grey Cup (aka. Mud Bowl) victory on November 27, 1950. This image is captioned “Blue Bombers in vain attempt to block kick as Joe (King) Krol performs his brilliant old-time form.” Article written by Hal Walker, photographs taken by Turnicky?, (Richard) Cole and Harry McLorinan, and sourced from Newspapers.com.

1950

Argos beat Winnipeg at the "Mud Bowl"

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