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.

Game summary [ edit ]

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 .

External links [ edit ]

• "Grey Cup: 1951" . Canadian Football League. Archived from the original on 2010-12-13.
• "The Grey Cup 1909-2009" (PDF) . Canadian Football League. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-02.