1960 Nfl Season

The 1960 NFL season was the 41st regular season of the National Football League.

1960 NFL season
Regular season
DurationSeptember 23 –
December 18, 1960
East ChampionsPhiladelphia Eagles
West ChampionsGreen Bay Packers
Championship Game
ChampionsPhiladelphia Eagles
1960 NFL season is located in the United States
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Browns
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Cardinals
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Packers
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Lions
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49ers
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Colts
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Rams
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NFL teams: 1960 Nfl Season West, 1960 Nfl Season East

Before the season, 33-year-old Pete Rozelle, the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams, was elected NFL commissioner as a compromise choice on the twenty-third ballot. Meanwhile, the league expanded to 13 teams in late January with the addition of the Dallas Cowboys, with a fourteenth team, the Minnesota Vikings, to start in 1961. Also, the Cardinals relocated from Chicago to St. Louis and became the St. Louis Cardinals, the same moniker as the major league baseball team.

In the championship game, the host Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Green Bay Packers by four points at Franklin Field. Two years earlier in 1958, both teams had finished in last place in their respective conferences, combining for only three wins. This loss was Vince Lombardi's only post-season defeat as an NFL head coach. Following this loss in 1960, Lombardi's Packers won five NFL championship games in seven years, and easily won the first two Super Bowls.

The NFL introduced the Playoff Bowl, a game for third place between the runners-up from each conference. Played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, after the NFL Championship game, it benefitted the players' pension fund. The Detroit Lions played the Cleveland Browns in the inaugural game and the Lions won by a point, the first of three straight wins by Detroit in the series.

The two-time defending league champion Baltimore Colts led the Western Conference after their bye in week 9, but lost the last four games to finish at .500 and fourth in the West. The New York Giants, winners of the Eastern Conference the previous two seasons, won only one of their final five games and finished third in the East.

During this season, the American Football League (AFL) was launched as a competitor to the NFL. The two leagues co-existed for the entire 1960s, agreed to a merger in 1966, and became one combined league in 1970.

Draft

The 1960 NFL Draft was held on November 30, 1959 at Philadelphia's Warwick Hotel. With the first pick, the Los Angeles Rams selected running back Billy Cannon from Louisiana State University.

Because the league awarded the Dallas Cowboys franchise about two months later on January 28, 1960, this marked the only time that an NFL expansion team did not have the benefit of a college draft in its first year.

Expansion Draft

The 1960 NFL expansion draft was held on March 13, 1960, with the Dallas Cowboys selecting 36 players from the other 12 teams.

Conference races

All teams but Dallas played a home-and-away game against the other five members of their own conference, one inter-conference game, and one game against the new team (Dallas): Dallas, although assigned to the Western Conference, was a "swing team" and played each team once.

This was the final season for the 12-game schedule in the NFL.

A bye was required because of there being thirteen teams, with one team having a bye in each of the 13 weeks.

The Cowboys' first game saw them take a 14–0 lead over the Pittsburgh Steelers on a Saturday night at the Cotton Bowl, with Jim Doran catching a pass from Eddie LeBaron for the first score, but lost 35–28.

Eastern

Philadelphia lost its opener at home to Cleveland, 41–24, then went on a nine-game winning streak. The breakthrough came in Week Six on October 30, when unbeaten New York (3–0–1), two-time defending conference champions, came off their bye and lost at home to St. Louis, 20–13, while the Browns and idle Eagles were both at 4–1. In Week Seven, New York beat Cleveland, 17–13, and the Eagles beat Pittsburgh 34–7. The Eagles clinched the Eastern Conference after ten games at 9–1; they dropped a game the next week in the snow at Pittsburgh, and finished the regular season at 10–2, 1½ games ahead of Cleveland. Two of the wins in the streak were in consecutive games (November 20 and 27) against New York.

In the latter game, the Eagles trailed 17–0, then 23–17, before Norm Van Brocklin threw two touchdown passes in the final quarter for a 31–23 victory. In the former, the Giants' Frank Gifford was severely injured in a tackle by linebacker Chuck Bednarik late in the game that almost ended his career. New York entered that November 20 game at 5–1–1, but won only once in the last five games, including a tie against Dallas - the Cowboys lost their remaining eleven games that year - and finished third in the Eastern at 6–4–2. The Giants won the next three conference championships for five in six seasons, but not the league title.

Western

The Western Conference race was one in which Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, and San Francisco all had a lead at one time.

The Bears fell back after a Week Six loss to the 49ers, 25–7. In Week Seven, the 4–2 Colts and the 4–1 Packers met on November 6 in Green Bay. Two-time defending NFL champion Baltimore, which had lost an earlier match, won 38–24, to take the lead in the Western. In Week Ten, the Colts (6–2) came off their bye and lost at home to San Francisco, 30–22, to begin a streak of four defeats. Baltimore's 20–15 loss to the Lions, and Green Bay's 41–13 win at Chicago, tied the Colts and Packers at 6–4 in Week Eleven. After the Packers' 13–0 win at San Francisco, their record was 7–4, while the Colts, Lions and 49ers were all at 6–5. While San Francisco and Detroit both won the next week, the former beating Baltimore 34–10, the Packers had won the day before, beating Los Angeles 35–21 for the Western title, their first in 16 years.

The new Dallas Cowboys lost their first ten games, but managed a 31–31 tie against the Giants at Yankee Stadium in New York on December 4. They finished at 0–11–1: as ties were excluded in calculating winning percentage prior to 1972, the Cowboys had a winning percentage of .000, rather than .042.

Conference leaders

Week Western Record Eastern Record Bye
1 Tie (Bal, Chi) 1–0–0 4 teams (Cle, NYG, Pit, St.L) 1–0–0 Detroit
2 Baltimore Colts 2–0–0 Tie (Cle, NYG) 2–0–0 Washington
3 4 teams (Bal, Chi, GB, SF) 2–1–0 New York Giants 3–0–0 Cleveland
4 Tie (Bal, Chi) 3–1–0 Tie (Cle, NYG (3–0–1)) 3–0–0 Green Bay
5 Tie (GB, Chi (3–1–1)) 3–1–0 New York Giants 3–0–1 New York
6 Green Bay Packers 4–1–0 Tie (Cle, Phi) 4–1–0 Philadelphia
7 Baltimore Colts 5–2–0 Philadelphia Eagles 5–1–0 Chicago
8 Baltimore Colts 6–2–0 Philadelphia Eagles 6–1–0 San Francisco
9 Baltimore Colts 6–2–0 Philadelphia Eagles 7–1–0 Baltimore
10 Baltimore Colts 6–3–0 Philadelphia Eagles 8–1–0 Los Angeles
11 3 teams (Bal, GB, SF) 6–4–0 Philadelphia Eagles  (clinched) 9–1–0 Pittsburgh
12 Green Bay Packers 7–4–0 Philadelphia Eagles 9–2–0 St. Louis
13 Green Bay Packers  (clinched) 8–4–0 Philadelphia Eagles 10–2–0 Dallas
  • A bye was required in 1960, as the league had an odd number of teams (13); one team had the bye each week.
    The fourteenth team, Minnesota, would join the league in 1961, and the NFL subsequently initiated a 14-game regular season.

Final standings

Postseason

NFL Championship Game

Playoff Bowl

The Playoff Bowl was between the conference runners-up, for third place in the league. This was its first year (of ten) and it was played three weeks after the regular season.

Pro Bowl

Awards

Most Valuable Player Norm Van Brocklin, quarterback, Philadelphia
Coach of the Year Buck Shaw, Philadelphia

Coaching changes

Stadium changes

See also

References

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