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With the Argos crucial mid-season clash with the Ticats only days away, argonauts.ca takes a look at what has transpired in the Labour Day Classic over the last 20 years in the latest edition of ‘By The Numbers’.
4 wins by the Argos in the last 6 Labour Day games. They tied one (2004) and lost another (2005).
1 season since 1987 that the Argos and Ticats did not meet on Labour Day, it was in 1990.
185 points put up by the Argonauts in the last 6 Classics.
125 surrendered by Toronto against the Tabbies in the last 6 Classics.
1995 one of the few times when Labour Day was not played on the holiday Monday of the weekend.
50 The Argos have outscored the Ticats by a combined 50 points on Labour Day in the seasons that the Double Blue went on to win the Grey Cup (1991, 1996, 1997, 2004).
29,600 On Labour Day, Ivor Wynn Stadium usually reaches a capacity crowd of 29,600 fans, a small portion of which make the trip from Toronto.
1 Only 1 Labour Day game has gone to overtime and it occurred in 2004 when the teams finished in a wild 30-30 tie.
3 After a first quarter melee ensued in the 2004 edition of the Labour Day Classic, a total of three players were not only penalized but ejected from the game.
6 The Classic has seen 6 starting quarterbacks between the two teams in the last 6 years (TOR – Damon Allen, Michael Bishop, Kerry Joseph; HAM – Danny McManus, Jason Maas, Casey Printers).