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Since Derek wants to create a section dedicated to the Grey Cup championships of 1964, 1985, and 1994, let's help him in these three threads. Post any links and articles that you can find related to the 1964 Grey Cup on this thread. I know that the best articles would be the newspaper stories that were produced shortly after the game. I am only able to find recap articles.

Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_Grey_Cup

CBC Radio Preview:
http://archives.cbc.ca/500f.asp?id=1-41-381-2185&wm6=1

Hamilton Tiger-Cats History Page:
http://www.ticats.ca/index.php?module=page&id=4059

Article about the late Bill Munsey, mentions the 1964 GC:
http://www.tomhawthorn.com/?a=4

CFL Recap:
http://www.cfl.ca/index.php?module=news ... 2&writer=0

BC Sports Hall of Fame Induction Article and Picture:
http://www.bcsportshalloffame.com/cgi-b ... earchall=1


Another picture of the Grey Cup ring:


1964 BC Lion CFL All-Stars
Joe Kapp, QB
Lonnie Dennis, OT
Mike Cacic, DT
Dick Fouts, DE
Bill Munsey, DB

1964 BC Lion CFL Award Winner
Tom Brown, LB

1964 Miss BC Lion
Lynn Allen

A few pictures, courtesy of Joe Kapp's web page.

1964 Grey Cup Program

Not surprisingly, those on the Lions 50th Anniversary Dream team who were on the 1964 squad list the 1964 Grey Cup as their favourite memory.

Mike Cacic
http://www.bclions.com/themes/bc2/bios/dt-bio-67.html

Tom Hinton
http://www.bclions.com/themes/bc2/bios/dt-bio-54.html

Bill Munsey
http://www.bclions.com/themes/bc2/bios/dt-bio-20.html

What is confusing is that according to Wikipedia, there was no Grey Cup MVP awarded from 1963 to 1966:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Cup_MVP

But in Bill Munsey's profile above in the link above, he says that he was the MVP of the 1964 Grey Cup. So....was there a GC MVP in 1964 or not? If Munsey really was 1964 Grey Cup MVP, I wonder what his award was.

Here is an excellent article on the 1964 Lions from the August 2, 2006 edition of the Vancouver Courier. It contains a picture of coach Dave Skrien with Kapp and Fleming. It explains in great detail the 1963 and 1964 seasons, as well as the issue of Grey Cup rings. It explains where some of the players are now and which members have passed away since the 1964 championship.

http://www.vancourier.com/issues06/0811 ... 06nn1.html

A video of Willie Fleming's TD run in the 1964 Grey Cup, voted the ninth greatest play in Lions' history.

http://www.bclions.com/video/video_pop. ... o/features

A video of the fumble on the field goal attempt that led to a BC touchdown.

http://toronto.cflgreycup.ca/media-cent ... &site=gc07

Robbie wrote:A video of the fumble on the field goal attempt that led to a BC touchdown.

http://toronto.cflgreycup.ca/media-cent ... &site=gc07

I saw that but I can't grab it and I am hesitant to link to things that may not be thier in a week/month/year

1964

Following an 11-2-3 season the Lions returned to the Grey Cup against the Ti-Cats, this time in Toronto. A two-touchdown, two-way starring performance by Bill Munsey, app and Fleming, and a touchdown from the field goal unit led the Lions to a 34-24 victory that ended 11 seasons of waiting for the faithful fans of British Columbia. Tom Brown repeated his Schenley Award as Defensive Player of the Year and also won the Jeff Nickin trophy as Most Valuable Player in the West.

Western Football Conference Team GP W L T PF PA Pts
British Columbia Lions 16 11 2 3 328 168 25
Calgary Stampeders 16 12 4 0 352 349 24
Saskatchewan Rough Riders 16 9 7 0 330 282 18
Edmonton Eskimos 16 4 12 0 222 458 8
Winnipeg Blue Bombers 16 1 14 1 270 397 3

Eastern Football Conference Team GP W L T PF PA Pts
Hamilton Tiger-Cats 14 10 3 1 329 201 21
Ottawa Rough Riders 14 8 5 1 313 228 17
Montreal Allouettes 14 6 8 0 192 264 12
Toronto Argonauts 14 4 10 0 243 332 8

Western Semi-Finals - Calgary Stampeders 25 Saskatchewan Roughriders 34
Western Semi-Finals - Saskatchewan Roughriders 6 Calgary Stampeders 51
Calgary won the total-point series by 76-40. The Stampeders will play the British Columbia Lions in the Western Finals.

Eastern Semi-Finals Montreal Alouettes 0 Ottawa Rough Riders 27
The Rough Riders will play the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Eastern Finals.

Western-Finals - British Columbia Lions 24 Calgary Stampeders 10
Western Finals - Calgary Stampeders 14 British Columbia Lions 10
Western Finals - Calgary Stampeders 14 British Columbia Lions 33
B.C. wins the best of three series 2-1. The Lions will advance to the Grey Cup Championship game.

Eastern Finals - Hamilton Tiger-Cats 13 Ottawa Rough Riders 30
Eastern Finals - Ottawa Rough Riders 8 Hamilton Tiger-Cats 26
Hamilton won 2 game total-point series by 39-38. The Tiger-Cats will advance to the Grey Cup Championship game.

Grey Cup Championship

52nd Annual Grey Cup Game: Exhibition Stadium - Toronto, Ontario
Western Champion Eastern Champion
British Columbia Lions 34 Hamilton Tiger-Cats 24
The British Columbia Lions are the 1964 Grey Cup Champions

JOE KAPP TO VICTORY

from the Book The Grey Cup Story

By Jack Sullivan
Nov. 28,1964, at Toronto
British Columbia Lions 34
Hamilton Tiger-Cats 24


A peanut butter pusher, a third string fullback and a poetry writing Second string quarterback combined to honor a promise Lions had made to their fans. It was a little late mind you 11 years to be precise but the Lions dug up their club birth slogan "Lions Roar in '54" and updated it with a 1964 Grey Cup victory. Until this season, and with only a few exceptions, they had been able to emit nothing much more dangerous than a yelp in the Western Conference.

Joe Kapp the peanut butter man, Bill Muncey, the fullback who had carried the ball only once for no gain in two years of professional football, and Pete Ohler the poet were the main architects of Lions' smashing victory over Tiger-Cats, the powerhouse of the East. No one figured that the comparative unknowns Muncey and Ohler would play a prominent part in the victory but between them they were responsible for three of the five, B.C. touchdowns.

Kapp, the rangy Californian and leader of the Lions' drive to their Western Conference first place finishes and a spot in the Grey Cup final, was a natural, the acknowledged leader. And his name was worth money to promotion minded companies with a product to sell. He had a company aptly named Joe Kapp, Ltd., that promoted automobiles and, in the past, pushed a hair dressing purporting to be the antithesis of "greasy kid stuff."

Peanut Butter though, was his big off season deal. "He sure sells a lot of peanut butter for us," said one executive of the bread spread company. Joe toured the B.C. countryside in a peanut butter colored convertible, made more than 100 personal appearances.

Muncey, who got no farther than the line of scrimmage in his one ball carrying effort in a Western Conference game in 1963, scored two touchdowns in three minutes and four seconds in the third quarter. They couldn't have come at a more opportune time. Tiger-Cats sniffing blood and on the prowl, had cut the Lions' lead to 20-8 when Muncey went to work. Playing in the fullback slot left vacant by a knee injury to first string Bob Swift and a leg ailment to second stringer Neal Beaumont, he rambled 18 yards for his first TD.

On the last play of the quarter and with Ticats on the B.C. 35, Johnny Counts fumbled a long lateral from Bernie Faloney. Dick Fouts, B.C. defensive end, booted the loose ball, Muncey was there to grab it on the run and he streaked 65 yards for the touchdown that ended the Lions' scoring.

The scoreboard showed Lions in front 34-8. Ticats were dead and every one in the crowd of 32,655 at the Canadian National Exhibition Stadium knew it, although a desperation last quarter rally netted them 16 points on two converted touchdowns and a conceded safety touch. Ohler's contribution came on a broken play early in the second quarter with Lions in front 7-0.

B.C. lined up for a field goal attempt from the Hamilton 19. Ohler fumbled the punt, retrieved the ball and pitched an end zone pass to Jim Carphin, a second string end who had been detailed to act as an emergency receiver in the event of any miscues on the snap. Coach Dave Skrien of the Lions said it was "definitely" a broken play. The 23 year old Ohler said he had been practising the pass to Carphin for just such an eventuality.

Lions' other touchdowns came from Swift on a one yard TD hurdle over the line and a 46 yard dash around end by incomparable Willie Fleming who was a terror all afternoon. Peter Kempf clicked on four of five convert attempts and Beaumont conceded the two point safety.

Counts scored one Hamilton touchdown on a 56 yard sideline ramble after taking a lateral from Faloney in the third quarter and Faloney tossed touchdown strikes to Tommy Grant and Stan Crisson in the final 15 minutes when the game was out of reach.

Don Sutherin converted two touchdowns and Joe Zuger kicked two singles. The statistics didn't prove a thing in this one, except possibly to show that figures can lie. Tiger-Cats gained 203 yards on the ground against 150 for Lions. They out passed them 233-159. They ran up 22 first downs against 16 for B.C. Kapp kept the supposedly tough Hamilton defence off balance most of the afternoon. He picked holes in Hamilton's deep pass defence. He crossed up the big, tough front wall by sending 183 pound Fleming down the middle instead of steering him out wide.

And Tiger-Cats couldn't do much about it. Fleming, who went out of the 1963 Cup final with a mild concussion, barrelled through the Hamilton line for 67 yards on six rushes and caught two passes for 36 yards. It was British Columbia's last appearance in the Cup final before football rounded the corner into the 1970s. But two Grey Cup appearances in 11 years was good for a club that had to start from scratch. The Western Conference refused player help in any way and B.C. was faced with the job of building a nucleus of Canadian talent on it's own in 1954.

Operation of the club also was a big problem. At one time Lions had 3,500 club members who had a hand in decision making. Each had contributed $20 to the team and they all had something to say about the operation. Finally, an investigation in 1960 sparked by a Vancouver barber, got to the heart of the matter and succeeded in streamlining the executive down from 30 men to nine and cut away the powers of the 3,500 club members.

The club also went through four coaches starting with Annis Stukus in 1954 before it could make it to the Cup final in 1963. It was a great roar the Lions let out in 1964.

Article on the 1964 Lions WDF win.

Rare articles on the 1964 GC win.

Very good picture of Joe Kapp holding the N.J. Piffles Taylor trophy after the 1964 WDF.

A great, coloured clip showing highlights of the first half of the 1964 Grey Cup.

http://www.sportshall.ca/collection_videos.php?i=520

I never knew that Norm Fieldgate also served as the kickoff specialist. Did you?

Several archived pictures of the 1964 Grey Cup.




A huge crowd at the airport waiting for the Lions to come home. Where was the huge airport crowd after the 2000 and 2006 GC wins?


November 26, 1964: Lynn Allen, Miss BC Lions (left) and Donna Powell, Miss Hamilton Tiger-Cat (right) trying to gain possession of the ball above the Grey Cup. How about a similar picture with a Felion fighting with a Blue Lightning?



Before political correctness came into effect.



A span of 30 years.