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| Date | November 28, 1959 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stadium | CNE Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Toronto | ||||||||||||||||||
| Most Valuable Player | Charlie Shepard, RB (Blue Bombers) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Paul Dojack | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 33,133 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | CBC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Norm Marshall, Larry O'Brien | ||||||||||||||||||
The 47th Grey Cup was the Canadian Football League's (CFL) championship game of the 1959 season on November 28, 1959.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 21–7 at Toronto's CNE Stadium before a crowd of 33,133. It was the first Grey Cup held at CNE Stadium; the stadium, making various changes along the way, would host 11 more Grey Cup games in a 24 year span ending with the 70th Grey Cup game in 1982.