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.
