1st Grey Cup

The 1st Grey Cup was an inter-league championship game played on December 4, 1909, between the Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union champion Toronto Varsity and the Ontario Rugby Football Union champion Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club.

[1][2][3] While the Canadian Dominion Football Championship had been contested since 1884, this was the first such game that was awarded the Grey Cup trophy.

[5] The rotational bye and subsequent hosting of the championship game had been in place since the creation of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union in 1907.

[5] In the Dominion Semi-Final, Toronto Varsity hosted the Ottawa Rough Riders at Rosedale Field on November 27, 1909.

[6] Varsity defeated the Rough Riders convincingly, by a score of 31–7, and earned their place in the championship final.

[7] In the second quarter, deep in their own end, Varsity quarterback Billy Foulds lateralled back to Gall, but the pass missed and Parkdale's Tom Meighan jumped on the ball for the try.