CFL Grey Cup Tickets

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The Grey Cup trophy, a symbol of Canadian football supremacy, was originally an amateur award, destined to be presented to the senior hockey champions of Canada. However, after Sir H. Montague Allan offered the Allan Cup for hockey competition, Lord Albert Henry George Grey, the fourth Earl and Governor General of Canada, donated the Grey Cup in 1909. It was destined to be awarded to the team winning the Senior Amateur Football Championship of Canada.

The first Grey Cup game pitted the University of Toronto against Parkdale at Varsity Stadium in Toronto in front of 3,807 football fans in 1909. The Grey Cup was presented, albeit three months later - he'd forgotten to have the cup made, but did so after a gentle reminder by the cup trustees - by his excellency Lord Grey to the team representing the University of Toronto, who won the game by a score of 26-6. The U of T team would go on to win the Grey Cup the next two years and again in 1920, following a three-year hiatus as a result of the First World War.