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| Date | November 26, 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stadium | Empire Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Vancouver | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 39,417 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | CBC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Steve Douglas, Bill Stephenson | ||||||||||||||||||
The 43rd Grey Cup game was played on November 26, 1955, before 39,417 football fans at Empire Stadium in Vancouver.
The game was the first Grey Cup to be played in Western Canada. The game had typically been played in Toronto previously, however the then-recently-completed Empire Stadium was the largest venue in the country. In a somewhat related development, the two professional unions (the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union in the east and the Western Interprovincial Football Union in the west) had informally agreed to co-ordinate their schedules in a manner which effectively forced the amateur Ontario Rugby Football Union to withdraw from Grey Cup competition. This made the 1955 championship game the first in which the Western champion had a de facto automatic berth in the Grey Cup game.
In a rematch of the previous year's Grey Cup, the Edmonton Eskimos defeated the Montreal Alouettes by the score of 34–19.