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The 1961 Grey Cup was the first CFL championship game to be decided in overtime. The 2005, 2016, and 2021 Grey Cups were also decided in overtime. It also marked the fourth time in five years that the championship was decided between the Blue Bombers and Tiger-Cats.
The 1961 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the fourth season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 12th overall. The team finished in first place in the Eastern Football Conference with a 10–4 record and faced the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Grey Cup for the fourth time in the last five seasons.
Because of strong winds of up 30–40 mph (48–64 km/h), CFL officials, in agreement with both head coaches, Bud Grant for Winnipeg and Ralph Sazio for Hamilton, changed a punting rule prior to the game, perhaps unprecedented in CFL if not in football history.
The following is a list of Hamilton Tiger-Cats all time records and statistics for players current to the 2024 CFL season. This list includes all seasons since the Hamilton Tiger-Cats ' inception in 1950 and does not include lineage figures from the Hamilton Tigers nor the Hamilton Wildcats .
The 1961 Winnipeg Blue Bombers finished in first place in the Western Conference with a 13–3 record. Winnipeg met the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the 49th Grey Cup.and played in what has been called one of the greatest Cups ever played, as Winnipeg rallied to send the game to overtime late to make it the first Grey Cup to be decided in overtime (and the only one for the entire 20th century).
Wild Card Weekend is officially in the books. In our part two recap pod Matt Harmon and Scott Pianowski breakdown all the biggest takeaways from Monday's action and look ahead to the Divisional round.
Due to the reduced 14 game schedule, Winnipeg and Hamilton met just once during the 2021 regular season, this being the traditional Grey Cup rematch in Week 1. [19] The Blue Bombers allowed a touchdown on Hamilton's opening drive, but shut out the Tiger-Cats for the rest of the game and won 19–6 at IG Field.
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