DCHP-2

Grey Cup < Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• 1 n. — Canadian Football

  the trophy awarded annually to the best team in the Canadian Football League (see Image 1).

  Type: 1. Origin — The cup was first awarded in 1909. It was commissioned by and named after Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey (1851-1917), who was Canada's Governor General from 1904 to 1911. Originally, Grey wanted to endow a cup for Canada's senior amateur hockey champions. Once Grey realized that such cup already existed (the Allan Cup), he commissioned a cup for football, which at the time was very close to the game of rugby
  The cup was first awarded to amateur teams (see the 1919 quotations), but since 1954 only teams in the Canadian Football League, which is today a professional league, have competed for the cup (see Canadian Football Hall of Fame reference).

  See also: Canadian football  Stanley Cup  Canadian Football League  

  • 1912  The Grey Cup will be presented to the Alerts at the Temple Theatre Wednesday night. 
  • 1919  [Sinclair] played outside wing on the college football team which won the Earl Grey cup in 1911 and the Dominion Championship. 
  • 1924  Winnipeg Victorias are champions of the Western Canada Football union by reason of an 11 to 9 victory [...], and will go East in two week's time in quest of the Grey Cup and the national championship. 
  • 1931  After leaving the gridiron as a participant, [McGiverin] still retained an active interest in the game, and was made a trustee of the Grey Cup [...]. 
  • 1940  In the far ring, armed only with twenty or twenty-five Argonauts and the notes of his recent speech on How We Will Win the Grey Cup, Lew Hayman will attempt the discouraging task of stopping the Ottawa Roughriders on a steep grade. 
  • 1950  Steve Levantis [...] thinks that this year's Tiger-Cats is one of the greatest collections of footballers he's [seen]. And Steve has played on five Grey Cup winning teams. 
  • 1977  This is the 26th consecutive year in which Argos have not brought the Grey Cup to Toronto. 
  • 1985  Murphy directed the Blue Bombers to their first Grey Cup in 22 years last season [...]. 
  • 1995  It has been 54 years since Ottawa and Winnipeg last butted heads over the Grey Cup. 
  • 2008  "Do you believe what's happened? It was incredible to hold the Grey Cup and touch it. It's almost like a relationship with the Cup because of the way it was promised to Erin. It's a bittersweet thing." 
  • 2015  "I feel I have always played with confidence as I prepare so that I can play with that confidence, but with this being my second year I do feel much more comfortable on the field." About the only thing that could top off this season is for Coates to bring home the Grey Cup after the Tiger-Cats came close to accomplishing that last season. So far this season, the Tiger-Cats appear to be headed in the right direction as they occupy first place in the East Division with an 8-3-0 record. 

• 2 n. — often in compounds, Canadian Football

  the championship game whose winner is awarded the Grey Cup.

  Type: 1. Origin — Usually held in November, this final game of the CFL season determines the champion.

  See also: Canadian football  Canadian Football League  

  • 1909  The Earl Grey Cup today has a remarkably good field.
  • 1935  A Western Canada team has finally floored one from the East, and, as a result, interest in the next Grey Cup final will be enhanced. 
  • 1945  Once again it has been proved conclusively that the East-West football game for the Grey Cup is the outstanding sporting event in Canada. 
  • 1953  [...] its beloved Roughriders [have gone] to the Grey Cup finals accompanied by hundreds of loyal home town supporters. [...]
  • 1961  Football, or, more specifically, the Grey Cup game, gives bookmakers the most concentrated action of any Canadian sports event. . . .
  • 1963  Shortly after Nov. 30, this year, the Grey Cup will become unique in sports. It will be the first spectacle which will be able to advertise: "the only game ever played on land, sea, and in the air."
  • 1985  The '85 Grey Cup will be the last one of this century held in the Olympic Stadium. 
  • 2006  Montreal, a loser in double overtime to the Edmonton Eskimos in last year's Grey Cup game, have made lots of changes since that disappointment. 
  • 2008  In his fifth year as a starting pivot in the CFL, Joseph led Saskatchewan to its first Grey Cup since 1989 with a 23-19 victory over Winnipeg [...]. 
  • 2012  There are many ways to mark an anniversary as significant as the one the Canadian Football League is celebrating this year -- some ceremonial, as with this year's packed slate of events honouring the 100th Grey Cup in Toronto, others more personal.
    It is not stretch to suggest that many thousands of Canadians have Grey Cup memories woven into their life stories.
  • 2012  A Truly Great Storey Red Storey played for the Toronto Argonauts for six years (1936-41) and won two Grey Cups with the Double Blue (1937 and 38). In the '38 classic he scored three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to give the Argos a 30-7 victory over Winnipeg. No player since has rushed for three touchdowns in a single Grey Cup game. Storey, who was an official in football, lacrosse, and hockey went on to a ten-year career as a referee in the NHL and was elected to the NHL Hall of Fame in 1967. His son Bob won Grey Cups with Hamilton in 1967 and Montreal in 1970.
  • 2015  Downtown Winnipeg's newest iconic building, or at least a portion of it, will be ready in time for Canada's biggest sporting event of the year -- Grey Cup Weekend. The president and CEO of the RBC Convention Centre revealed Thursday the Nov. 28 Grey Cup dinner will be held in the new big glass-walled ballroom that has been built above York Avenue as part of the $180-million convention centre expansion project.