New Delhi, June 6 -- The scoreboard at Hamilton Stadium read 24-10 with less than a minute left in the third quarter, and the Montreal Alouettes had already lost three offensive starters to injury. Robert Kennedy III was just a 183-pound defensive back in his second CFL season. What followed made none of that context matter.

43 mark of the third quarter, tucked the ball and ran 54 yards untouched into the Hamilton end zone. A crowd that had spent three quarters filling Tim Hortons Field with noise went quiet. The Alouettes, who had looked incapable of winning, suddenly looked like themselves.

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