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{{short description|1967 Canadian Football championship game}}
{{Infobox Canadian football game
| number         = 55
| type           = Grey Cup
| image          =
| date           = December 2, 1967
| stadium        = [[Frank Clair Stadium]]
| city           = [[Ottawa]]
| visitor name   = [[Hamilton Tiger-Cats]]|visitor colour=Hamilton Tiger-Cats
| home name      = [[Saskatchewan Roughriders]]|home colour=Saskatchewan Roughriders
| visitor coach  = [[Ralph Sazio]]
| home coach     = [[Eagle Keys]]
| visitor record = 10–4
| home record    = 12–4
| visitor1       = 7
| visitor2       = 10
| visitor3       = 0
| visitor4       = 7
| home1          = 1
| home2          = 0
| home3          = 0
| home4          = 0
| MVP            = [[Joe Zuger]], QB ([[Hamilton Tiger-Cats|Tiger-Cats]])
| MV2            =
| anthem         =
| referee        =
| coin toss      =
| halftime       =
| attendance     = 31,358
| network        = [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]], [[CTV Television Network|CTV]], [[Télévision de Radio-Canada|SRC]]
| announcers     =
| ratings        =
}}
The '''55th [[Grey Cup]]''' was played between the [[Hamilton Tiger-Cats]] and the [[Saskatchewan Roughriders]] on December 2, 1967, at [[Lansdowne Park]] in [[Ottawa]], before 31,358 fans and was won by the Tiger-Cats by a score of 24–1.

== Box Score ==

'''First Quarter'''

Hamilton – TD – [[Joe Zuger]] 3 yard run ([[Tommy Joe Coffey]] convert)<br />
Saskatchewan – Rouge – [[Alan Ford (Canadian football)|Alan Ford]] 87 yard punt

'''Second Quarter'''

Hamilton – TD – [[Ted Watkins]] 72 yard pass from [[Joe Zuger]] ([[Tommy Joe Coffey]] convert)<br />
Hamilton - Rouge - [[Tommy Joe Coffey]] 42 yard missed field goal<br />
Hamilton - Rouge - [[Joe Zuger]] punt<br />
Hamilton - Rouge - [[Joe Zuger]] punt

'''Fourth Quarter'''

Hamilton - Rouge - [[Joe Zuger]] punt<br />
Hamilton – TD – [[Billy Ray Locklin]] 43 yard fumble return (convert missed)

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Teams
! Q1
! Q2
! Q3
! Q4
! Final
|-
| '''Hamilton Tiger Cats'''
| 7
| 10
| 0
| 7
| '''24'''
|-
| '''Saskatchewan Roughriders'''
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 0
| '''1'''
|}

==Game characteristics==

[[Joe Zuger]], Hamilton's quarterback, was named the game's [[Grey Cup Most Valuable Player]].<ref>Who's Who in Canadian Sport, Volume 4, p.490, [[Bob Ferguson (journalist)|Bob Ferguson]], Fitzhenry and Whiteside Ltd., Markham, ON and Allston, MA, {{ISBN|1-55041-855-6}}</ref>

The game marked the sixth consecutive game in the season that the Ticats held their opponents without a touchdown.

[[Alan Ford (Canadian football)|Alan Ford]]'s 87 yard punt, on a quick kick, is the longest in [[Grey Cup]] history.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grey Cup Almanac - Individual Kicking Records |url=http://www.cbc.ca/sports/greycup/ind_kicking_punting.html |publisher=CBC Sports |date=2006-11-01 |access-date=2010-04-27}}</ref>

==References==
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==Videos==

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==External links==
*{{cite web|url=https://www.cfl.ca/page/his_greycup_recap1967 |title=Grey Cup: 1967 |publisher=Canadian Football League |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214054429/http://www.cfl.ca/page/his_greycup_recap1967 |archive-date=2012-02-14 }}
*[http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/5743/gc60-70.htm Grey Cup programmes] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20091020051339/http://geocities.com/Colosseum/5743/gc60-70.htm Archived] 2009-10-22), an image of the souvenir programme from the 1967 game.

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[[Category:1967 in Canadian football]]
[[Category:Canadian football competitions in Ottawa]]
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[[Category:Saskatchewan Roughriders postseason]]
[[Category:1960s in Ottawa]]
[[Category:1967 in Canadian television]]
[[Category:December 1967 sports events in Canada]]


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