1960 NCAA University Division football season, October
On October 15, No. 1 Mississippi beat Tulane in New Orleans 26–13, and No. 2 Iowa beat No. 12 Wisconsin at home, 28–21. No. 3 Ohio State lost a close one at Purdue 24–21. No. 4 Syracuse beat No. 20 Penn State 21–15,  and  No. 5 Navy beat the Air Force Academy 35–3 in Baltimore. No. 10 Minnesota beat Illinois 21–10. The Iowa Hawkeyes narrowly topped the next poll, with 23 first place votes to 22 for Ole Miss, and only two points to separate No. 1 and No. 2 (442–440)   They were followed by 3.Syracuse 4.Navy and newcomer 5.Missouri, which was 5–0 after a 45–0 win over Kansas State at Manhattan, KS. Minnesota rose from 10th to 6th.


1960 NCAA University Division football season, October
October 22 No. 1 Iowa beat No. 10 Purdue 21–14 and No. 2 Mississippi edged No. 14 Arkansas 10–7 in Little Rock. No. 3 Syracuse won at West Virginia 45–0, while No. 4 Navy beat the Ivy League's Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, 27–0. No. 5 Missouri, which had held its opponents to single digits, continued winning with a 34–8 thrashing of Iowa State. In Ann Arbor, Michigan, No. 6 Minnesota beat Michigan 10–0. Iowa tightened its hold on No. 1 in the next poll, with 34 of the 48 votes for first place. The next week's Top 20 had only nineteen teams, with Kansas at No. 19 with 2 points. The top five remained the same with 1.Iowa 2.Mississippi 3.Syracuse 4.Navy and 5.Missouri.


1960 NCAA University Division football season, October
October 29 No. 1 Iowa beat No. 19 Kansas 21–7. No. 2 Mississippi played its 7th game of the season, but its first at home in Oxford, and was tied 6–6 by the LSU Tigers. No. 3 Syracuse lost to Pitt 10–0. In Philadelphia, No. 4 Navy beat Notre Dame 14–7. No. 5 Missouri crushed Nebraska in Lincoln, 28–0, to go 7–0–0. At this time, they had outscored their opponents 210–31. No. 6 Minnesota beat Kansas State 48–7.


1960 NCAA University Division football season, October
Iowa stayed No. 1, Missouri rose to No. 2 . No. 6 Minnesota rose to No. 3 after posting its sixth win, a 48–7 routing of Kansas State, and  Ohio State returned to the top five at No. 5 after beating Michigan State in East Lansing, 21–10. With three Big Ten teams, the top five was 1.Iowa 2.Missouri 3.Minnesota 4.Navy and 5.Ohio State.


1960 NCAA University Division football season, November
November 5  The battle between the Big Ten's two 6–0–0 teams, No. 1 against No. 3, took place in Minneapolis, where No. 1 Iowa lost to No. 3 Minnesota, 27–10. No. 4 Navy lost in Durham, North Carolina, to No. 13 Duke 19–10No. 2 Missouri beat No. 18 Colorado at home 16–6. No. 5 Ohio State handled Indiana 36–7. Having dethroned the No. 1 team, the Minnesota Gophers took the top spot in the poll released on November 7, 1960, with 40 of the 47 voters voting them as No. 1. Mississippi, still unbeaten, returned to the Top Five after a 45–0 win over Tennessee-Chattanooga. The top five was 1.Minnesota 2.Missouri 3.Ohio State 4.Mississippi and 5.Iowa.


1960 NCAA University Division football season, November
November 12No. 1 Minnesota lost to Purdue, 23–14. No. 2 Missouri gave up more than a touchdown for the first time, but still won 41–19 at Oklahoma. No. 3 Ohio State lost at No. 5 Iowa, 35–12. No. 4 Mississippi, following its win against UT-Chattanooga, beat the parent No. 14 University of Tennessee in Knoxville, 24–3. Washington, which had beaten California 27–7, returned to the Top Five. The Missouri Tigers captured No. 1 in the next poll, which was 1.Missouri 2.Iowa 3.Mississippi 4.Minnesota and 5. Washington


1960 NCAA University Division football season, November
November 19 Unbeaten No. 1 Missouri, with only a home game left between it and the national championship, lost to visiting Kansas, 23–7, but the game was later forfeited to Missouri. No. 2 Iowa defeated Notre Dame in South Bend, 28–0. No. 3 Mississippi finished its season unbeaten (9–0–1) with a 35–9 win at home over Mississippi State. No. 4 Minnesota closed its season with a 26–7 win at Wisconsin. No. 5 Washington played its season ender against 4–4–1 Washington State in Spokane, winning only by a 2–point conversion, 8–7. In the penultimate poll, released November 21, Minnesota, Iowa and Mississippi had 13½, 17½ and 13 first place votes respectively (voters were allowed to split their choices for No. 1), and Minnesota was again No. 1. The following Saturday,


1960 NCAA University Division football season, November
November 26No. 3 Mississippi finished its season unbeaten (9–0–1) with a 35–9 win at home over Mississippi State.


1960 NCAA University Division football season, November
With both the AP and UPI finishing their voting before the bowl games, the championship was determined in December. The AP writers divided among Minnesota (8–1), Mississippi (9–0–1) and Iowa (8–1), and some voters split their choices. As such, the Minnesota Gophers received 17½ votes for No. 1, Mississippi got 16, and Iowa 12½. Minnesota had 433½ poll points, ahead of 411 for Ole Miss and 407½ for Iowa. Minnesota was also the No. 1 choice in the UPI coaches poll.


1960 NCAA University Division football season, November
Because the final Associated Press and United Press International polls were conducted after the final game of the regular season, Minnesota is the AP and UPI national champion for 1960. It's of note that the MAC Ohio Bobcats were also crowned the world small college football  champions in 1960, after an undefeated season. The postseason poll conducted by the Helms Athletic Foundation recognizes Washington as national champions, while the Football Writers Association of America crowned Mississippi as national champion. Had the polls been taken after the bowl games, the Missouri Tigers would likely also have been a contender for the national championship, as they beat Navy in the Orange Bowl and possessed an unbeaten and untied record (11–0) after their forfeit victory over Kansas.


1960 NCAA University Division football season, Bowl games
Because the final polls came out in November, the outcome of the post-season bowl games had no effect on the championship. As winner of the Big Ten title, No. 1 Minnesota went to the Rose Bowl to face Washington, which had the best record of the five teams in the AAWU (today's Pac-12). No. 2 Mississippi, as winner of the SEC, was invited to the Sugar Bowl to face unranked Rice University. The Big Ten did not allow its teams to play in a postseason game other than the Rose Bowl, so No. 3 Iowa stayed home. Although Washington upset Minnesota 17–7 in Pasadena, the post-season loss did not affect the Gophers' championship as determined by the AP and UPI.


1960 NFL Championship Game
The 1960 National Football League Championship Game was the 28th NFL title game. The game was played on Monday, December 26, at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


1960 NFL Championship Game
In addition to the landmark 1958 championship game, in which the Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants in sudden death overtime, the 1960 game has also been called a key event in football history. The game marked the lone playoff defeat for Packers coach Vince Lombardi before his Packers team established a dynasty that won five NFL championships, as well as the first two Super Bowls, in a span of seven seasons. The victory was the third NFL title for the Philadelphia Eagles, and their final championship until the team won Super Bowl LII in February 2018, ending a 57-year championship drought.


1960 NFL Championship Game
The American Football League was in its first season and held its inaugural title game less than a week later. First-year NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle convinced owners to move the league's headquarters from Philadelphia to New York City, and with Congressional passage of the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 received an antitrust exemption that allowed the league to negotiate a common broadcasting network representing all of its teams, helping cement football's ascendancy as a national sport.


1960 NFL Championship Game
This was the second and last NFL championship game played in Philadelphia, and the only one at Franklin Field. A dozen years earlier, the 1948 title game was held in the snow at Shibe Park and was also an Eagles' victory.


1960 NFL Championship Game
Ticket prices for the game were ten and eight dollars. This is the only year from 1958 to 1963 that did not include the New York Giants in the Championship Game.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Background
The game matched the league's conference champions, Philadelphia Eagles (10–2) of the East and Green Bay Packers (8–4) of the West. The Eagles were making their first appearance in a championship game since 1949, and the Packers their first since 1944. Two years earlier, both teams had finished last in their respective conferences.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Background
Due to the lack of lights at Franklin Field (lights were not installed at the venue until 1970), the kickoff time was moved up to 12 p.m. (noon) EST to allow for the possibility of sudden death overtime, as had occurred in 1958. The game was also played on a Monday, as it had been in 1955, as the NFL did not want to play the game on Christmas.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Background
Led by future hall of fame head coach Vince Lombardi, Green Bay won the Western Conference, a game ahead of the Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers. The two-time defending champion Baltimore Colts, led by quarterback Johnny Unitas, were 6–2 on November 13, but lost their last four and stumbled into fourth place with a .500 record. (Baltimore did not win another division/conference title until 1964.) Green Bay had won six league championships before, most recently in 1944, but the intervening years had been lean.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Background
At the time, Lombardi was better known as an assistant coach (offense) for the New York Giants. Hired by the Packers in January 1959, he led them to a 7–5 record in his first season as a head coach, a vast improvement over the 1958 season (1–10–1), their worst ever. On the field, the Packers were led by quarterback Bart Starr, another future hall of famer, who was then lightly regarded, having thrown eight interceptions to go with his four touchdown passes in the 1960 season.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Background
Starr had shared playing time with Lamar McHan, who won all four games he started, while Starr was an even 4–4. In his four previous seasons in the league, Starr had more interceptions than touchdowns in each season and he finished the 1960 season with 1,358 passing yards, completing 98 of 172 passes for a completion percentage of 57.0. Other names that would shine during the dynasty the Packers built during the 1960s, such as halfback / placekicker Paul Hornung, linebacker Ray Nitschke, and fullback Jim Taylor, were all early in their careers and future hall of famers.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Background
The 1960 game represented a chance for Philadelphia to add to the consecutive titles they won in 1948 and 1949, but the team had declined to only two wins in 1958. Head coach Buck Shaw was in his third season with the Eagles, and in what turned out to be his final year as a head coach, and had turned around the team from a 2–9–1 record in 1958 to seven wins in 1959 to a conference championship and the league's best record in 1960.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Background
The Eagles were led on the field by 34-year-old quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, who was ranked second in the NFL with 2,471 passing yards and 24 passing touchdowns, behind Unitas of the Colts in both statistics, and was playing in his final game. Less than a month after the title game, he was named the head coach of the expansion Minnesota Vikings. Philadelphia had clinched the Eastern title early on December 4 at 9–1, and there was concern by Shaw that it could have an adverse effect on his team.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
A capacity crowd of 67,325 gathered at Franklin Field, the home field of the University of Pennsylvania, with 7,000 temporary seats having been added. The Eagles were a two to three-point home underdog, and the game-time temperature was 48 °F (9 °C), creating difficult inconsistent field conditions for both teams, as the frozen playing surface thawed in spots leaving scattered puddles under the low winter sun. It had snowed several days earlier in Philadelphia, followed by cold temperatures, and the well-worn, nearly grassless field had been covered by a tarpaulin.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
On the first play from scrimmage, a lateral from Van Brocklin deflected off the hands of receiver Billy Ray Barnes and was intercepted by Bill Quinlan of the Packers, giving Green Bay possession at the Philadelphia 14-yard line. After Jim Taylor gained five yards on first down, the Packers were unable to score, turning the ball over on downs to Philadelphia at the six-yard line. A fumble on the Eagles' third play after gaining possession by Bill Barnes was recovered by Bill Forester of Green Bay at the 22-yard line of Philadelphia. Two Paul Hornung rushes gave the Packers a first down at the 12-yard line, but two incomplete passes and another Hornung rush came up short. Lombardi elected to kick on fourth down, with Hornung connecting from twenty yards out to give the Packers a 3–0 lead.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
Hornung kicked a second field goal in the opening minutes of the second quarter from 23 yards out, after a Packers drive stalled on the 17-yard line, putting Green Bay up by six points. On a pair of passes from Van Brocklin to Tommy McDonald of 22 yards and 35 yards respectively, the Eagles scored a touchdown and the extra point by kicker Bobby Walston gave them their first lead of the game.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
After getting the ball back from Green Bay, Van Brocklin connected on a pass of 41 yards to Pete Retzlaff that was followed three plays later by a 22-yard pass play to Ted Dean that put the Eagles on the Packers' eight-yard line. After three incomplete passes, a field goal gave the Eagles a 10–6 lead. On the following drive in the waning minutes of the first half, Green Bay took the ball to the Philadelphia seven-yard line. The threat fizzled after Bart Starr was sacked for a loss and the field goal attempt from just 13 yards by Hornung was wide left, a critical error in a low-scoring game.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
A drive by the Packers in the third quarter advanced to the Philadelphia 34-yard line, but Green Bay failed to convert on fourth down, turning the ball over to the Eagles and losing Hornung to a shoulder injury. The Eagles promptly marched down deep into Green Bay territory but a Van Brocklin pass was intercepted in the end zone by John Symank. The touchback gave the Packers the ball on their own 20-yard line. In punt formation on fourth down, Max McGee ran for 35 yards to give Green Bay a first down in Philadelphia territory. Despite the successful run on the fake punt, Lombardi was not pleased, saying "We punt the ball; we don't run the ball" when the team sets up for a punt.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
In the final quarter, continuing that same drive, the Packers advanced deep into Philadelphia territory on runs by backs Tom Moore and Taylor, then retook the lead with a seven-yard pass from Bart Starr to McGee with 13:07 left in the game. Hornung came off the bench to kick the extra point, giving Green Bay a 13–10 lead. On the ensuing kickoff, Ted Dean received the ball at the three-yard line and returned it 58 yards, giving Philadelphia excellent field position at the Green Bay 39-yard line.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
Dean provided what turned out to be the margin of victory for the Eagles with a five-yard touchdown run on a sweep led by a key block from guard Gerry Huth with 5:21 left, capping off a drive in which Van Brocklin passed the ball only once. On the Packers' next possession, McGee caught a short pass just beyond midfield, but was ruled to have fumbled, and the Eagles recovered. After a trade of punts, Philadelphia took over at their 26-yard line with just over three minutes remaining. Following three running plays and another punt, Green Bay started the final drive at their 35-yard line with 1:05 left, needing a touchdown.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
A completion to Gary Knafelc ended with him tackled in bounds at the Eagles' thirty-yard line, and Green Bay used their final timeout with a half-minute left. On first down, Starr overthrew double-covered Boyd Dowler in the shady south corner of the end zone, stopping the clock with 25 seconds remaining. On second down, Knafelc caught a short pass, but was quickly tackled in bounds at the 22, so the clock continued to run.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
Starr rushed to get the offense set for third down, then threw a short pass to fullback Taylor; it was caught on the run at the 17, but linebacker Bednarik, the last Eagle between Taylor and the end zone, tackled him at the Eagles' nine-yard line and remained on top of Taylor as the final seconds ticked off the clock, securing the Eagles the win and the championship. Bednarik had played both defense and offense, and was in for every play of the game; after the clock reached zero, he growled "You can get up now, Taylor. This damn game's over."


1960 NFL Championship Game, Game summary
The Eagles won despite being outgained in the game 401 yards to 296, with only 13 first downs as compared to 22 for the Packers. It would prove to be the only career playoff loss for Packer head coach Lombardi (9–1), and would be the last Eagles championship until Super Bowl LII 57 seasons later. Lombardi would later rue his decision to go on fourth down on several occasions deep in Philadelphia territory rather than attempt field goals on such plays, saying "When you get down there, come out with something. I lost the game, not my players."


1960 NFL Championship Game, Officials
The NFL had five game officials in 1960; the line judge was added in 1965 and the side judge in 1978.


1960 NFL Championship Game, Players' shares
The gross receipts for the game, including radio and television rights, were just under $748,000, the highest to date. Each player on the winning Eagles team received $5,116, while Packers players made $3,105 each.


1960 NFL Draft
The 1960 National Football League Draft in which NFL teams take turns selecting amateur college American football players and other first-time eligible players, was held at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia on November 30, 1959. Many players, including half of those drafted in the first round, signed with teams in the newly created American Football League, including the first overall pick and Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon. At the time of the draft, the Cardinals were still the Chicago Cardinals; they moved to St. Louis in March 1960. The Dallas Cowboys were enfranchised in January 1960 after the draft.


1960 NFL expansion draft
The 1960 NFL expansion draft was the first National Football League (NFL) draft in which a new expansion team, named the Dallas Rangers, selected its initial players. The NFL awarded Dallas, Texas a franchise to compete for revenue with Lamar Hunt's Dallas Texans of the upstart American Football League. The Dallas expansion franchise was approved too late for it to participate in the 1960 NFL draft which had been held on November 30, 1959. Dallas is the only NFL expansion team to not have had the benefit of a college draft in its first year.


1960 NFL expansion draft
So that the Rangers (Cowboys) could become competitive with existing teams, the league gave them the opportunity to select current players from existing teams. That selection was provided by the expansion draft, held on March 13, 1960. In this draft, the Rangers chose 36 players from the existing 12 teams. The NFL also assigned the rights to 1960 NFL draft picks Don Meredith (who had been drafted by the Chicago Bears) and Don Perkins (drafted by the Baltimore Colts) to the Cowboys for a couple of future draft picks.


1960 NFL expansion draft
22 players made the active roster that season. 11 players played only one year with Dallas. Eight players (including Jack Patera, who was injured early in the 1961 season) played in 1960 and 1961. The three remaining players from the draft started for several years, including: Bob Fry, Tackle, 1960–64; Jerry Tubbs, Linebacker, 1960–66; and Frank Clarke, Wide Receiver, 1960–67.


1960 NFL expansion draft
On March 19, 1960, the Rangers renamed themselves the Cowboys.


1960 NFL expansion draft, Rules of the draft
According to a post on the Professional Football Researcher's Association forum, details have never been released to the public, and thus the exact nature of the expansion draft is unclear. In his autobiography, Tom Landry stated, “Each team would be allowed to protect twenty-five of the thirty-four men on its roster. Of the nine remaining names, we could pick only three from each team.”  However, there are at least two mistakes in that statement. First, the active roster limit at that time was thirty-six, not thirty-four.


1960 NFL expansion draft, Rules of the draft
Second, there were at least two individuals chosen by Dallas who were not on active rosters at the time of the selections. Note in particular the selection of Joe Nicely, who was never on an NFL active roster. Thus, it would appear that teams could nominate players from their inactive rosters as well.


1960 NFL expansion draft, Rules of the draft
Mark Ribowsky: “The Cowboys were permitted to sign three players from each NFL team, choosing from among eleven players left unprotected from each thirty-six man roster in an expansion draft to be held in February.” Again, nothing is said here about players not on the active roster, and Ribowsky has the date wrong. Perhaps the best conclusion is that teams were allowed to protect twenty-five players, active or inactive, and Dallas could choose from the remainder.


1960 NFL expansion draft, Rules of the draft
More from Landry, “ . . . each time we picked a player off the unprotected list, a team could remove another from that list.”


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


1960 NFL season
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.


1960 NFL season
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.


1960 NFL season
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.


1960 NFL season
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.


1960 NFL season
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.


1960 NFL season, 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.


1960 NFL season, 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). This was the final season for the 12-game schedule in the NFL. The Cowboys, although assigned to the Western Conference, were a "swing team" and played each team once. (Byes were necessary because of the odd number of teams in the league (13); one team was idle 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.


1960 NFL season, Conference races, 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.


1960 NFL season, Conference races, Eastern
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.


1960 NFL season, Conference races, Eastern
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 to Dallas, the Cowboys' sole non-loss of the 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.


1960 NFL season, Conference races, 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.


1960 NFL season, Conference races, Western
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. San Francisco and Detroit both won the next week, the former beating Baltimore 34–10, but the Packers won the day before, downing Los Angeles 35–21 for the Western title, their first in 16 years.


1960 NFL season, Conference races, Western
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, a winning percentage of .000, rather than .042. Under the rules at the time, ties were ignored in computing winning percentage, which was changed prior to the 1972 season.


1960 NFL season, Final standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1960 NFL season, Postseason, 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.


1960 NSWRFL season
1960's New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the 53rd season of the rugby league competition based in Sydney. Ten teams from across the city competed for the J J Giltinan Shield and WD & HO Wills Cup during the season, which culminated in a grand final between St. George and Eastern Suburbs.


1960 NSWRFL season, Season summary
With four teams finishing on equal second place at the end of the regular season, and no weight given to the "for" and "against" points differential, minor premiers St. George watched Western Suburbs, Eastern Suburbs, Balmain and Canterbury-Bankstown go through a four-match series of play offs before the real finals commenced. In a double header at the Sydney Sports Ground, Easts and Wests won the right to play off for second and third spots, while Canterbury and Balmain's losses meant they would play off for the fourth and final place in the finals series.


1960 NSWRFL season, Season summary
Also in 1960, NSWRFL president Henry "Jersey" Flegg died and Bill Buckley took up the position.


1960 NSWRFL season, Season summary
This season the Western Suburbs Magpies won the NSWRFL Club Championship.


1960 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
St. George had lost to Eastern Suburbs late in the regular season and expected them to be a finals force. But due to the playoffs for the minor premiership placements the Roosters were playing their sixth match in four weeks, including an extra-time tussle in the minor semi against Canterbury.


1960 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
For the first grand final in four the defending premiers left their strongarm tactics in the locker room and let their skilled backline excel. Five minutes into the game Bob Bugden toed a loose ball through and fell on it to open the scoring. At 23 minutes the second try was set up by Brian Clay who beat his opposite Billy McNamara and passed to Reg Gasnier who dazzled the opposition with a change of pace that left them flatfooted.


1960 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
Prop Kevin Ryan may have been in his rookie St. George season but he had already represented for Australia at rugby union and for Queensland in boxing. He had fit into the tough St. George pack with ease and featured on Grand Final day in setting up firstly fellow newcomer Johnny King for a first half try, then Gasnier after the break for his second before being sent off at the 60 minute mark, along with Easts forward Brian Wright, for fighting.


1960 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
Norm Provan and Dave Brown also scored in the second half and two minutes before the bell an interplay between Provan and Brian Graham resulted in King getting his second try. Only a few weeks earlier Johnny King had been the third grade fullback, having been declined a contract offer early in the season from South Sydney.


1960 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
Although they were on the wrong side of a 17-6 penalty caning, St. George scored seven tries to nil, walloping Eastern Suburbs 31-6.


1960 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
Ken Kearney became the oldest player to appear in a grand final (36 years 123 days) and also equalled Jack Rayner's record of five grand finals won as captain.


1960 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
St. George 31 (Tries: Gasnier 2, King 2, Bugden, Brown, Provan. Goals: Graham 5.)


1960 National 400
The 1960 National 400 was a Grand National Series stock car race that was held on October 16, 1960, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.


1960 National 400
The transition to purpose-built racecars began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade. Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s.


1960 National 400, Background
Around 29,166 spectators traveled to Charlotte Motor Speedway to watch the race. Located in Concord, North Carolina, Charlotte Motor Speedway is a banked 1.5-mile (2.4 km) quad-oval that opened a few months earlier for the inaugural World 600.


1960 National 400, Background
Charlotte Motor Speedway was designed and built by Bruton Smith and partner and driver Curtis Turner in 1959. The first World 600 NASCAR race was held at the 1.5 mi (2.4 km) speedway on June 19, 1960. On December 8, 1961, the speedway filed bankruptcy notice. Judge J.B. Craven of US District Court for Western North Carolina reorganized it under Chapter 10 of the Bankruptcy Act; Judge Craven appointed Robert "Red" Robinson as the track's trustee until March 1962. At that point, a committee of major stockholders in the speedway was assembled, headed by A.C. Goines and furniture store owner Richard Howard. Goines, Howard, and Robinson worked to secure loans and other monies to keep the speedway afloat.


1960 National 400, Race report
Bob Barron and Friday Hassler would make their NASCAR Grand National debut appearances here. Unfortunately, this would be Bob Barron's only start of the 1960 NASCAR Grand National Series season. Charlie Glotzbach would also make his NASCAR big league debut at this race but to a much smaller fanfare.


1960 National 400, Race report
The race was held on a dry circuit; with no precipitation recorded around the speedway.


1960 National 400, Race report
It took three hours and thirty-two minutes to complete 267 laps on a paved oval track spanning 1.500 miles (2.414 km). Seven cautions were waved by NASCAR officials for 34 laps. Speedy Thompson defeated Richard Petty by one lap and twelve seconds in front of nearly 30,000 spectators while going 112.905 miles per hour (181.703 km/h); helping the Wood Brothers' racing team earn their one of their first NASCAR wins as owners. Thompson would get his penultimate win of his NASCAR Cup career in this race; winning for the last time at the 1960 Capital City 400.


1960 National 400, Race report
Fireball Roberts was the qualifier for the pole position with a speed of 133.465 miles per hour (214.791 km/h). Eight notable crew chiefs participated in the event; including Cotton Owens, Leonard Wood and Bud Moore. He would eventually blow a tire on lap 232; causing him to crash and lose the lead. There were fifty drivers who would ultimately participate in this event; all of them were American-born males.


1960 National 400, Race report
Fred Lorenzen would earn the event's last-place finish for a vibration problem that he developed on lap 4; earning only $200 for that day ($1,488 when adjusted for inflation). Lowe's was one of the corporate sponsors of this racing event; they still sponsor NASCAR to this very day through frequent Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson.


1960 National 400, Race report, Qualifying
Failed to qualify: Buddy Baker (#20), Leroy Thomas, Wilbur Rakestraw (#99), Bob Duell (#95), Gerald Duke (#92), Speedy Thompson (#90), Charles Griffin (#78), Elmo Henderson (#70), Tiny Lund (#63), Jim Whitman (#60), Jim Cook (#38), Tommy Irwin (#36), Jimmy Massey (#21), LeeRoy Yarbrough


1960 National Challenge Cup
The 1960 National Challenge Cup was the 47th edition of the USSFA's annual open soccer championship. The Philadelphia Ukrainians defeated the Los Angeles Kickers to win.


1960 National Invitation Tournament
The 1960 National Invitation Tournament was the 1960 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.


1960 National Invitation Tournament, Selected teams
Below is a list of the 12 teams selected for the tournament.


1960 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1960 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventh and final round of the 1960 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on September 11, 1960, at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.


1960 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1960 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy as an independent in the 1960 NCAA University Division football season. The offense scored 262 points while the defense allowed 103 points. Led by head coach Wayne Hardin, the Midshipmen finished the season with nine wins and an appearance in the Orange Bowl.


1960 Navy Midshipmen football team
The Midshipmen were Lambert Trophy co-champions with undefeated Yale. Senior halfback Joe Bellino was awarded the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award.


1960 Navy Midshipmen football team
Navy upset third-ranked Washington in Seattle, which vaulted them up eleven places in the rankings, to sixth. They played Air Force for the first time this season, a 35–3 win in mid-October in Baltimore as Bellino scored three touchdowns and made an interception, all in the first half.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska and member of the Big Eight Conference in the 1960 NCAA University Division football season. The team was coached by Bill Jennings and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Before the season
The mixed fortunes of Nebraska football under coach Jennings were a continuing source of uncertainty. In the three previous years of his tenure, two distinct faces of the program appeared depending often upon who the opponent was. Stunning victories over favored teams were frequently followed or preceded by demoralizing losses to underperforming or average conference foes. Jennings had record clear losing records in all three seasons, finishing last or 2nd to last in the league, yet managed to secure epic wins against powerhouse rivals such as Minnesota and Pittsburgh, and even snapped Oklahoma's 13-year, 74-game conference winning streak. For his fifth year, the Nebraska football schedule opened with a tough road game against #4 Texas, but was then favorable with four straight home stands, and the only other major looming threat was the final game with Oklahoma, in Norman.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Texas
Nebraska's record of surprise victories was extended once again when the Cornhuskers fought #4 Texas to a near draw, scraping out the win by a single point under the guidance of Pat Fischer, who had converted to QB in the offseason. Nebraska set a new team record for defeat of a highly ranked team, besting the 14–13 road win over #7 Kansas in 1952. The win moved the Cornhuskers to 2–1 in the series, and prompted the AP Poll to move Nebraska into the rankings for the first time since 1954.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota
Minnesota had long dominated the series between these teams, and was coming off the uncommon loss to Nebraska when they met in Lincoln. The Cornhuskers failed to live up to their recent billing as the #12 team in the land, as the unranked Golden Gophers ran over around and through the outgunned Nebraska line. The 14 Cornhusker points were put up inside of two minutes of the third quarter, one thanks to an interception, but the rest of the day belonged to Minnesota.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota
The Cornhuskers gave up their short-lived appearance in the polls and were now just 6–29–2 in the series. Minnesota used this win as a springboard, going on to finish the season ranked #1 as the AP national champions, though they subsequently lost to #6 Washington 7–17 in the 1961 Rose Bowl.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
The first conference game for Nebraska started with promise, thanks to a high wind. A Cyclone punt traveled for only twelve yards into the wind, giving the Cornhuskers favorable field position on the Iowa State 29 and quickly leading to a touchdown in the first quarter. Following that, the Cyclones brought the score even with a touchdown before the break. Try as they might to recover the lead, Nebraska was unable to get a score, while allowing Iowa State what would be the game-winning field goal. Nebraska still dominated the series, 42–11–1.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
Nebraska secured the first league victory against Kansas State thanks a great deal to three key running plays by HB Bennie Dillard that rolled up 43 yards to score two touchdowns and set up a third. The Cornhusker triumph also snapped a three-game home field losing stretch to the Wildcats and moved Nebraska to 33–9–2 against Kansas State all time.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Army
The Cadets struck first with a field goal, and disaster soon followed when Army then recovered a Nebraska fumble on the Cornhusker 5 yard line and promptly converted it into Nebraska's first-ever touchdown against the Cadets. Down 9–0, just two plays later, Nebraska QB Pat Fischer successfully faked a pass before running 64 yards to the Army 14, and soon enough the Cornhuskers were back in it, 9–7. After the halftime break, another bit of trickery by Fischer allowed a 57-yard pass to HB Dillard for another touchdown.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Army
The Cadet squad was far more productive than Nebraska on the day, snagging an interception, outyarding them 324–198, and tallying a first down advantage of 18–5. Despite the battle of statistics favoring Army, two outstanding defensive stands by the Cornhuskers on the 5 yard line kept Army scoreless until time expired on a last-ditch Cadet pass play into the end zone that was knocked away and incomplete. The win was Nebraska's first against Army in three attempts.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Colorado
Playing in the high altitude at Boulder, the Cornhuskers attempted to make a game of it, pulling up to a 6–6 tie in the second quarter. Nebraska's momentum would be broken and never recovered shortly after when the Buffaloes returned a kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown to go ahead for good. Finally, in the fourth quarter, the Cornhuskers had a chance to tie the game on two occasions, but came away empty-handed on both attempts. Colorado's win brought them back to within a game of catching Nebraska in the series, at 9–10–0.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri
Nebraska was nursing a 3–3 record, just 1–2 in the Big 8, when #5 Missouri came to Lincoln. While Nebraska seemed, under the guidance of Bill Jennings, as a likely victor in a game no one would normally expect them to win, this matchup failed to follow the pattern of Cornhusker upsets. The Tigers rolled over the Cornhusker line almost at will, rolling up 28 unanswered points. As time waned, Missouri gave up a fumble that the Cornhuskers eventually managed to bring to the Tiger 7-yard line.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri
Forced to turn the ball back over on downs, Missouri ran the clock out and handed down a shutout defeat to Nebraska. The Tigers moved to 22–28–3 in the series, and kept the Missouri-Nebraska Bell for the fourth straight year. The Tigers went on to finish the season 11–0 and ranked #5 by the AP Poll, and defeated #4 Navy 21–14 in the 1961 Orange Bowl.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas
After the surprise 1959 upset of Oklahoma by the Cornhuskers in 1959, the Sooners had not yet recovered and were in a spiral downward. Smelling a chance at a conference title for the first time in well over a decade, Kansas brought their full effort against the Cornhuskers in Lawrence. Nebraska's first and only break came on a fumble lost by the Jayhawks early on, but the Kansas defense promptly stopped the series.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas
The Cornhuskers were unable to get past the Kansas 35 yard line until late in the 4th quarter when the game was already out of reach, and still the Jawhawks held firm. The 0–31 blanking was the worst-ever defeat Kansas had dealt to Nebraska in their series that dated to 1892, though it still belonged to the Cornhuskers at 46–17–3. Kansas went on to finish strong, 5–4–1 and ranked #11 by the AP Poll.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State
Oklahoma State and Nebraska were briefly members of the same conference from 1925 to 1928 before the MVIAA reorganized into the Big 6, though they had not met on the field before today. Now that the Cowboys (formerly the Aggies) were back, the league was now known as the Big 8. Coach Jennings showed a new look to first-time opponent OSU, attacking in the double wing T for the first time. The Cowboys quickly adjusted, however, and were still able to stifle the Cornhusker offense.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State
Nebraska QB Pat Fischer returned an early punt for a touchdown to go ahead, but all other attempts to score fell short. Nebraska succeeded in hanging onto the lead until late in the fourth, when Fischer allowed a fumble to be lost to Oklahoma State. The Cowboys, who had managed to get into Nebraska territory only one other time in the entire game so far, subsequently converted the turnover into a touchdown. The successful point after sealed the outcome.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
Oklahoma's 13-year high-flying domination of the league came crashing to a halt after Nebraska's shocking defeat of the Sooners to close out 1959, and Oklahoma had still not quite recovered. Limping into the game with a 2–3–1 conference record unprecedented in recent history, the Sooners were bent on revenge against the team that had started the downward spiral. Oklahoma jumped out to a 14–0 lead by halftime before Nebraska came together to mount a counterattack.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma
Holding the Sooners off for the rest of the game, and helped by a sensational 68 yard touchdown run, the Cornhuskers scratched up 17 points to take their second straight victory against Oklahoma. The struggling Oklahoma squad ended their season with four straight conference defeats, and their series with Nebraska was again tied at 18–18–3.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, After the season
Coach Jennings completed his fourth straight year of unpredictable levels of success. Despite once again pulling off unlikely upsets, against Texas and Army, and defeating Oklahoma for the program's first back-to-back wins over the Sooners since 1942, the Cornhuskers again fell flat in the conference and managed only a tie for 6th place. Although this was Coach Jennings' fourth straight losing season, he still managed to accumulate slightly improved records, with 6–19–0 (.240) in the Big 8 and 12–28–0 (.300) overall.


1960 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, After the season
The Cornhuskers now stood at 152–77–12 (.656) all time in conference, and slipped to 363–217–34 (.619) overall, a record tenth straight year of decline. Still, despite owning the third-worst career coaching in the history of the program among coaches with more than one year at the helm, the university opted to keep Jennings aboard for 1961.


1960 Nebraska gubernatorial election
The 1960 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1960, and featured attorney and frequent political candidate Frank B. Morrison, a Democrat, defeating Republican nominee, state Senator John R. Cooper.


1960 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball)
The 1960 Nemzeti Bajnokság I is the 10th season of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, Hungary's premier Handball league.


1960 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball), Final list
* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point


1960 Nepal coup d'état
1960 Nepal coup d'état was a coup d'état led by King Mahendra on 15 December 1960.


1960 Nepal coup d'état
The same day, he dismissed the cabinet of B.P. Koirala and imprisoned Koirala. On 13 April 1961, Mahendra made a televised appearance, in which he introduced Panchayat, a partyless political system.


1960 Nevada Wolf Pack football team
The 1960 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the University of Nevada during the 1960 NCAA College Division football season. Nevada competed as a member of the Far Western Conference (FWC). The Wolf Pack were led by second-year head coach Dick Trachok and played their home games at Mackay Stadium.


1960 Nevada Wolf Pack football team, Previous season
The Wolf Pack finished the 1959 season 4–3 and 3–2 in FWC play to finish in third place.


1960 New Brunswick general election
The 1960 New Brunswick general election was held on June 27, 1960, to elect 52 members to the 44th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada. The election resulted in the defeat of the incumbent Conservative government of Hugh John Flemming by the Liberals led by Louis Robichaud.


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1960 New Hampshire Wildcats football team
The 1960 New Hampshire Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Hampshire as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1960 NCAA College Division football season. In its 12th year under head coach Chief Boston, the team compiled a 4–3 record (2–2 against conference opponents) and finished fourth out of six teams in the Yankee Conference.


1960 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
The 1960 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1960. Incumbent Republican Wesley Powell defeated Democratic nominee Bernard L. Boutin with 55.46% of the vote.


1960 New Mexico Lobos football team
The 1960 New Mexico Lobos football team represented the University of New Mexico in the Skyline Conference during the 1960 NCAA University Division football season. In their first season under head coach Bill Weeks, the Lobos compiled a 5–5 record (4–2 against Skyline opponents), finished fourth in the conference, and outscored all opponents by a total of 234 to 182.


1960 New Mexico Lobos football team
The 1960 season was the first in which the Lobos played their home games in the newly-constructed University Stadium. The first game in the new stadium was a 77–6 victory over University of Mexico witnessed by a record crowd of 24,085 persons.


1960 New Mexico Lobos football team
The team's statistical leaders included Jim Cromartie with 343 passing yards and Bobby Santiago with 596 rushing yards and 187 receiving yards.


1960 New Mexico State Aggies football team
The 1960 New Mexico State Aggies football team represented New Mexico State University in the Border Conference during the 1960 NCAA University Division football season. The Aggies, led by third-year head coach Warren B. Woodson, played their home games at Memorial Stadium. They finished the season with a record of 11–0 and 4–0 in conference play. Until the 2017 school year, this was the most recent New Mexico State team to play in a bowl game.


1960 New Mexico State Aggies football team
For the second time in what proved to be four consecutive years, a New Mexico State back won the NCAA rushing title, Pervis Atkins in 1959, Bob Gaiters in 1960, and Preacher Pilot in 1961 and 1962.


1960 New Mexico State Aggies football team
Head coach Warren B. Woodson was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.


1960 New Mexico gubernatorial election
The 1960 New Mexico gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1960, in order to elect the Governor of New Mexico. Incumbent Democrat John Burroughs ran for reelection to a second term.


1960 New Mexico gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
The Democratic primary was won by incumbent governor John Burroughs.


1960 New Mexico gubernatorial election, Republican primary
The Republican primary was won by former governor Edwin L. Mechem.


1960 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 1960 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 29 December 1959 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1960.


1960 New Year Honours
At this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours, on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list.


1960 New Year Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.


1960 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Royal Victorian Order, Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominal letters MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.


1960 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The 1960 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1959 and the beginning of 1960, and were announced on 1 January 1960.


1960 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1960 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
The 26th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honored the best filmmaking of 1960.


1960 New York Giants season
The 1960 New York Giants season was the franchise's 36th season in the National Football League. The Mara family was opposed to the AFL adding a team in New York, but received an indemnity fee of ten million dollars.


1960 New York Giants season, Offseason
With the departure of defensive coordinator Tom Landry to the expansion Cowboys, three veterans served dual roles as player-coaches. Harland Svare became the defensive coordinator, Andy Robustelli was a defensive line coach, while Jimmy Patton was a defensive backs coach.


1960 New York Giants season, Regular season
Late in the eighth game of the season on November 20 at Yankee Stadium, linebacker Chuck Bednarik of Philadelphia knocked halfback Frank Gifford of the Giants unconscious and into St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Gifford was out of football for over eighteen months and the game-sealing play involving the two hall of famers is considered one of the most famous tackles in NFL history. The Giants went 6–4–2 in 1960 and finished in third place in the Eastern Conference. As a result, the Giants missed out on the post-season: the NFL Championship Game was won by host Philadelphia. The third place game in Miami, the first of the ten Playoff Bowls, was won by Detroit at the Orange Bowl in early January.


1960 New York Giants season, Regular season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1960 New York Titans season
The 1960 New York Titans season was the inaugural season for the team in the upstart American Football League (AFL). The team began play in the Polo Grounds, the one-time home of the National Football League (NFL)'s New York Giants. The Titans finished their first season at a respectable 7–7.


1960 New York Titans season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1960 New York Yankees season
The 1960 New York Yankees season was the 58th season for the team in New York, and its 60th season overall. The team finished with a record of 97–57, winning its 25th pennant, finishing 8 games ahead of the Baltimore Orioles. New York was managed by Casey Stengel. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium. In the World Series, they were defeated by the Pittsburgh Pirates in seven games.


1960 New York Yankees season, Regular season
Elston Howard took over as the Yankees' everyday catcher, while Yogi Berra split time between the outfield and serving as Howard's backup.


1960 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1960 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1960 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1960 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1960 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1960 New York Yankees season, 1960 World Series
NL Pittsburgh Pirates (4) vs. AL New York Yankees (3)


1960 New York mid-air collision
On Friday, December 16, 1960, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8, bound for Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York City, collided in midair with a TWA Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation descending into the city's LaGuardia Airport. The Constellation crashed on Miller Field in Staten Island and the DC-8 into Park Slope, Brooklyn, killing all 128 people on the two aircraft and six people on the ground. It was the deadliest aviation disaster in the world at the time.


1960 New York mid-air collision
The death toll would not be surpassed until a Lockheed C-130B Hercules was shot down in May 1968, killing 155 people. In terms of commercial aviation, the death toll would not be surpassed until the March 1969 crash of Viasa Flight 742, which crashed on takeoff and killed all 84 people on board the aircraft, as well as 71 people on the ground. The accident became known as the Park Slope plane crash or the Miller Field crash, after the crash sites of each plane respectively. The accident was also the first hull loss and first fatal accident involving a Douglas DC-8.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Aircraft and crews
United Airlines Flight 826, Mainliner Will Rogers, registration N8013U, was a DC-8-11 carrying 84 people from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in Queens. The crew was Captain Robert Sawyer (age 46), First Officer Robert Fiebing (40), Flight Engineer Richard Pruitt (30), and four stewardesses.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Aircraft and crews
Trans World Airlines Flight 266, Star of Sicily, registration N6907C, was a Super Constellation carrying 44 people from Dayton and Columbus, Ohio, to LaGuardia Airport in Queens. The crew was Captain David Wollam (age 39), First Officer Dean Bowen (32), Flight Engineer LeRoy Rosenthal (30), and two stewardesses. Star of Sicily's sister ship N6902C, Star of the Seine, was destroyed in another mid-air collision with a United Airlines flight in 1956.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Background
At 10:21 A.M. Eastern Time, United 826 advised ARINC radio — which relayed the message to UAL maintenance — that one of its VOR receivers had stopped working. ATC, however, was not told that the aircraft had only one receiver, which made it more difficult for the pilots of flight 826 to identify the Preston intersection, beyond which it had not received clearance.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Background
At 10:25 A.M. Eastern Time, air traffic control issued a revised clearance for the flight to shorten its route to the Preston holding point (near Laurence Harbor, New Jersey) by 12 miles (19 km). That clearance included holding instructions (a standard race-track holding pattern) for UAL Flight 826 when it arrived at the Preston intersection. Flight 826 was expected to reduce its speed before reaching Preston, to a standard holding speed of 210 knots or less. However, the aircraft was estimated to be doing 301 knots when it collided with the TWA plane, several miles beyond that Preston clearance limit.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Background
During the investigation, United claimed the Colts Neck VOR was unreliable (pilots testified on both sides of the issue). ("Preston" was the point where airway V123 — the 050-radial off the Robbinsville VOR — crossed the Solberg 120-degree radial and the Colts Neck 346-degree radial.) However, the CAB final report found no problem with the Colts Neck VOR.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Background
The prevailing conditions were light rain and fog (which had been preceded by snowfall).


1960 New York mid-air collision, Collision and ground impacts
According to the DC-8's FDR, the aircraft was 12 miles (19 km) off course and for 81 seconds, had descended at 3,600 feet per minute (18 m/s) while slowing from more than 400 knots to 301 knots at the time of the collision.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Collision and ground impacts
One of the starboard engines on the DC-8 hit the Constellation just ahead of its wings, tearing apart that portion of the fuselage. The Constellation entered a dive, with debris continuing to fall as it disintegrated during its spiral to the ground.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Collision and ground impacts
The initial impact tore the engine from its pylon on the DC-8. Having lost one engine and a large part of the right-wing, the DC-8 remained airborne for another minute and a half.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Collision and ground impacts
The DC-8 crashed into the Park Slope section of Brooklyn at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Sterling Place (), scattering wreckage and setting fire to ten brownstone apartment buildings, the Pillar of Fire Church, the McCaddin Funeral Home, a Chinese laundry, and a delicatessen. Six people on the ground were killed.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Collision and ground impacts
The crash left the remains of the DC-8 pointed southeast towards a large open field at Prospect Park, blocks from its crash site. An occupant in one of the affected apartment buildings said his family survived because they happened to be in the only room of their apartment which was not destroyed. The crash left a trench covering most of the length of the middle of Sterling Place. Witnesses thought a bomb had gone off or that a building's boiler had exploded.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Collision and ground impacts
The TWA plane crashed onto the northwest corner of Miller Field, at , with some sections of the aircraft landing in New York Harbor. At least one passenger fell into a tree before the wreckage hit the ground.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Collision and ground impacts
There was no radio contact with traffic controllers from either plane after the collision, although LaGuardia had begun tracking an incoming, fast-moving, unidentified plane from Preston toward the LaGuardia "Flatbush" outer marker.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Investigation
The likely cause of the accident was identified in a report by the US Civil Aeronautics Board.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Investigation
United Flight 826 proceeded beyond its clearance limit and the confines of the airspace allocated to the flight by Air Traffic Control. A contributing factor was the high speed of the United DC-8 as it approached the Preston intersection, coupled with the change of clearance which reduced the en-route distance along Victor 123 by approximately 11 miles.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Initial survivor
The only person to initially survive the crash was Stephen Baltz, an 11-year-old boy from Wilmette, Illinois. He was traveling on Flight 826 unaccompanied as part of his family's plans to spend Christmas in Yonkers with relatives. He was thrown from the plane into a snowbank where his burning clothing was extinguished. Although alive and conscious, he was badly burned and had inhaled burning fuel. He died of pneumonia the next day.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Legacy
In 2010, on the 50th anniversary of the accident, a memorial to the 134 victims of the two crashes was unveiled in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. The cemetery is the site of the common grave in which were placed the human remains that could not be identified.


1960 New York mid-air collision, Legacy
The collision is covered in the first episode of the fifth season of The Weather Channel documentary series Why Planes Crash. The episode, titled "Collision Course", first aired in April 2013.


1960 New York state election
The 1960 New York state election was held on November 8, 1960, to elect two judges of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.


1960 New York state election, Background
In 1959, Charles S. Desmond had been elected Chief Judge. In January 1960, Presiding Justice Sydney F. Foster, of the Appellate Division (Third Dept. ), was appointed by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller to fill temporarily the seat vacated by Desmond.


1960 New York state election, Background
Stanley H. Fuld had been elected to the Court of Appeals in 1946. Thus his fourteen-year term would expire at the end of 1960.


1960 New York state election, Nominations
The Republican State Committee met on September 12 at Albany, New York, and re-nominated the incumbents Fuld and Foster.


1960 New York state election, Nominations
The Democratic State Committee met on September 12 at Albany, New York, and endorsed the incumbent Republican Stanley H. Fuld for re-election, and nominated Supreme Court Justice Henry L. Ughetta for the other vacancy.


1960 New York state election, Nominations
On September 13, the Liberal Party endorsed the Republican/Democratic nominee Fuld, and nominated Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Brenner for the other vacancy. On September 18, Brenner declined to run. On September 19, the Liberals also endorsed the other Republican nominee Foster.


1960 New Zealand Grand Prix
The 1960 New Zealand Grand Prix was a motor race held at the Ardmore Circuit on 9 January 1960.


1960 New Zealand general election
The 1960 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 33rd term. It saw the governing Labour Party defeated by the National Party, putting an end to the short second Labour government.


1960 New Zealand general election, Background
The Labour Party had won the 1957 election by a narrow margin, beginning New Zealand's second period of Labour government. However, the new administration soon lost its narrow lead in public opinion, with its financial policies being the principal cause of dissatisfaction. The so-called "Black Budget", introduced by Arnold Nordmeyer, increased taxes substantially, with particularly large increases for alcohol and tobacco taxes; Labour became widely seen as both miserly and puritanical. The government defended its tax increases as a necessary measure to avert a balance of payments crisis, but the opposition, led by Keith Holyoake, made substantial gains out of the issue.


1960 New Zealand general election, Background, MPs retiring in 1960
Five National MPs and four Labour MPs intended to retire at the end of the 32nd Parliament.


1960 New Zealand general election, The election
The date for the main 1960 election was 26 November. 1,310,742 people were registered to vote, and turnout was 89.8%. This turnout was slightly lower than what had been recorded in the previous elections. The number of seats being contested was 80, a number which had been fixed since 1902.


1960 New Zealand general election, Results
The 1960 election saw the governing Labour Party defeated by a twelve-seat margin, having previously held a two-seat majority. National won a total of 46 seats to Labour's 34 seats, and formed the second National government. In the popular vote, National won 47.59% to Labour's 43.42%.


1960 New Zealand general election, Results
The Social Credit Party won 8.62% of the vote, but no seats. Three of their candidates missed the nomination deadline, and the opening address of the party leader P. H. Matthews was not noteworthy.


1960 New Zealand general election, Results
Three new National members of parliament were called the Young Turks: Peter Gordon, Duncan MacIntyre and Robert Muldoon. The other new National MPs were Esme Tombleson, Bill Brown, Harry Lapwood, Logan Sloane, Bert Walker, and Dan Riddiford.


1960 New Zealand general election, Results
Paddy Blanchfield, Ron Bailey, Norman Douglas and George Spooner entered parliament for Labour.


1960 New Zealand general election, Results, Votes summary
The table below shows the results of the 1960 general election:


1960 New Zealand rugby league season
The 1960 New Zealand rugby league season was the 53rd season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.


1960 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
New Zealand defeated France 2-0 at home before leaving to participate in the World Cup in Great Britain. The squad for the French series was Ron Ackland, Jock Butterfield, Mel Cooke, Neville Denton, Cyril Eastlake, Reese Griffiths, Tom Hadfield, captain Cliff Johnson, Trevor Kilkelly, Henry Maxwell, George Menzies, Keith Roberts and George P Turner.


1960 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
At the World Cup, the Kiwis lost to Great Britain and Australia but defeated France to finish third. The team was coached by Travers Hardwick, managed by Tom Skinner and included; Ron Ackland, Jock Butterfield, Reg Cooke, Mel Cooke, Neville Denton, Cyril Eastlake, Reece Griffiths, Tom Hadfield, captain Cliff Johnson, Trevor Kilkelly, Henry Maxwell, George Menzies, Laurie Olliff, Gary Phillips, Tom Reid, Keith Roberts, William Sorensen and George Turner.


1960 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
Auckland defeated France 14-5 at Carlaw Park while Canterbury lost to the French 15-8. The Auckland team was; Jack Fagan, Neville Denton, George Turner, Cyril Eastlake, Murray Paterson, Bill Sorensen, Bill Snowden, Henry Maxwell, Jim Patterson, Nelson Johnson, Ron Ackland, Jim Riddell and Ron McKay. France also defeated Waikato 32-2, Taranaki 30-21, Wellington 41-3, the West Coast 29-5 and New Zealand Māori 23-12.


1960 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Northern Union Cup
Auckland again held the Northern Union Cup at the end of the season. However, during the season they had lost the trophy to the West Coast 22-18 at Carlaw Park before Auckland regained it, and the Meates Cup, 19-4 in Greymouth. Auckland then defeated Canterbury 8-2.


1960 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition
While Auckland was touring the South Island, Auckland B defeated Waikato 11-8.


1960 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition
Auckland included Tom Hadfield, Neville Denton, Murray Paterson, Bill Sorensen, George Turner, Ron Ackland, Jim Patterson and Cyril Eastlake. Canterbury included captain Keith Roberts, Allen Amer, Mita Mohi, Mel Cooke, Kevin Pearce, Jim Bond, Jim Fisher and Tony Smith. The West Coast were advised by Snow Telford and included Graham Kennedy, Trevor Kilkelly and Reese Griffiths.


1960 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Eastern United & Southern Districts shared the Auckland Rugby League's Fox Memorial Trophy after drawing 7-all in the grand final. Eastern United also won the Rukutai Shield while Glenora won the Roope Rooster. Eastern and Glenora shared the Stormont Shield. Ron Ackland won the Rothville Trophy for Eastern as player of the year.


1960 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Under the Auckland Rugby League's "district scheme", which lasted until 1963, Ponsonby and Richmond combined to form "Central Districts", after Ponsonby had been relegated in 1959 for refusing to amalgamate. Ellerslie joined Eastern Districts and the side was re-titled "Eastern United". Mount Roskill and Manukau-Greenlane formed "Midland Districts".


1960 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
Linwood and Papanui shared the Canterbury Rugby League's Massetti Cup.


1960 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
Jock Butterfield was the captain-coach of Brunner in the West Coast Rugby League competition. Greymouth Marist defeated Linwood 13-7 to win the Thacker Shield.


1960 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia and South Africa
The 1960 New Zealand rugby union tour of South Africa, was a series of rugby union match played by New Zealand national rugby union team (the All Blacks) in South Africa and Rhodesia.


1960 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia and South Africa
It was a very controversial tour, because the South African authorities imposed the exclusion of Maori players from the team. This racist politicy created much controversy in New Zealand. (see Halt All Racist Tours)


1960 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia and South Africa, Later tours
New Zealand Rugby union then refused any other tour for the successive ten years until Maori and Samoan player participation was accepted in 1970. In that occasion South African authorities, gave them the title of "Honorary Whites", but controversies remained. In 1976, all the African countries boycotted the Olympic Games in protest at the All Blacks' tour of South Africa.


1960 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia and South Africa, Later tours
Then, the 1981 Springboks' tour, was contested by a large part of New Zealand public opinion, with riots and demonstrations.


1960 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia and South Africa, Later tours
In 1985 public opinion convinced NZRU to cancel another tour in South Africa. Only with the end of apartheid, in 1992 did the controversy end.


1960 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia and South Africa, Later tours
Also outside the political troubles, the results of the tour wasn't good in any case for All Blacks, that lost the series with only a victory and a draw in the four-match series against the Springboks


1960 Night Series Cup
The 1960 VFL Night Premiership Cup was the Victorian Football League end of season cup competition played in September of the 1960 VFL Premiership Season. This was the fifth season of the VFL Night Series. Run as a knock-out tournament, it was contested by the eight VFL teams that failed to make the 1960 VFL finals series. Games were played at the Lake Oval, Albert Park, then the home ground of South Melbourne, as it was the only ground equipped to host night games. South Melbourne went on to win the night series cup for the third time, defeating Hawthorn in the final by 13 points.


1960 Night Series Cup, External Links
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1960 Nippon Professional Baseball season
The 1960 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the eleventh season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).


1960 Niuean general election
General elections were held in Niue for the first time on 23 March 1960. A total of 39 candidates contested the 14 seats in the Assembly, with 2,118 voters registered. Voter turnout was 97%.


1960 Niuean general election, Background
As part of the 1915 Cook Islands Act, Niue was granted a 12-member Island Council with a representative appointed from each village by the Governor-General of New Zealand from candidates nominated by the Minister for the Cook Islands. The members were de facto chosen by the fono of each village, which was attended by the heads of each family.


1960 Niuean general election, Background
The Cook Islands Act 1957 resulted in the legislature being renamed the Niue Island Assembly, as well as increasing its membership to 14 elected members and the Resident Commissioner as president, and providing for election by secret ballot for all Niueans aged 18 or over.


1960 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
The 1960 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1960 NCAA University Division football season. The Tar Heels were led by second-year head coach Jim Hickey and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. The team competed as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing tied for sixth.


1960 North Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1960 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1960. Democratic nominee Terry Sanford defeated Republican nominee Robert L. Gavin with 54.45% of the vote.


1960 North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election
The 1960 North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1960. Democratic nominee Harvey Cloyd Philpott defeated Republican nominee S. Clyde Eggers with 58.98% of the vote.


1960 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team
The 1960 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team, also known as the Nodaks, was an American football team that represented the University of North Dakota in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1960 NCAA College Division football season. In its fourth year under head coach Marvin C. Helling, the team compiled a 4–3–1 record (4–1 against NCC opponents), finished in third place out of seven teams in the NCC, and outscored opponents by a total of 145 to 112. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Grand Forks, North Dakota.


1960 North Dakota State Bison football team
The 1960 North Dakota State Bison football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota State University during the 1960 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the North Central Conference. In their fourth year under head coach Bob Danielson, the team compiled a 3–5–1 record.


1960 North Dakota gubernatorial election
The 1960 North Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1960. Democratic nominee William L. Guy defeated Republican nominee Clarence P. Dahl with 49.44% of the vote.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The 1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season featured two deadly tropical cyclones that killed approximately 20,000 people collectively in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh). The Indian subcontinent divides the North Indian Ocean into two areas: the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west. The official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center releases unofficial advisories. On average, five storms form in the North Indian Ocean every season with dual peaks in activity during May and November. Cyclones that occurred between 45°E and 100°E were included in seasonal records by the IMD.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
Fifteen depressions developed during the 1960 season, with five becoming cyclonic storms. The majority of the activity took place in the Bay of Bengal, where eleven systems formed; however, the season's first storm formed over the Arabian Sea on May 10. The storm produced hurricane-force winds and attained a barometric air pressure of 974 mbar (hPa; 28.76 inHg). The deadliest and most intense cyclone of the season was Severe Cyclonic Storm Ten, which killed 14,174 in East Pakistan in early November.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
With peak winds estimated at 150 km/h (95 mph) and a pressure of 966.7 mbar (hPa; 28.55 inHg), it struck just three weeks after the previous system devastated the same area. The storm produced a 6.1 m (20 ft) storm tide that swept 16 km (10 mi) inland, submerging several small islands. The two storms left a combined 200,000–300,000 people homeless. These systems marked the start of an unusually active period of cyclones impacting East Pakistan, culminating ten years later with the 1970 Bhola cyclone, which killed between 300,000 and 500,000 people. During the 1960 season, several depressions impacted India with heavy rainfall. Collectively, these systems killed 167 people.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm One
On May 10, an area of low pressure was identified over the Arabian Sea roughly 400 km (250 mi) to the northwest of the Maldives. Moving northwestward, it gradually organized, becoming a depression during by the evening of May 12. After turning more toward the west, the system continued to slowly deepen. On May 14, the S.S. Kampala sailed into the system, encountering 55 km/h (35 mph) winds and rough seas. Over the following two days, the depression intensified into a cyclonic storm, with gale-force winds extending 150 km (90 mi) from the center.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm One
During the overnight hours of May 16 through 17, the SS Mohammedi sailed almost directly into the center of the cyclone, reporting a barometric pressure of 974 mbar (hPa; 28.76 inHg) and 9.1 m (30 ft) waves. Several other vessels, such as the S.S. Saudi and S.S. Exchequer, encountered the storm. Both ships reported hurricane-force winds, and the latter endured seas as high as 15.2 m (50 ft) early on May 18. Later that day, the storm weakened so rapidly the crew of the S.S. Exchequer were able to watch the pressure on their barometer actively rise. The storm continued westward, moving ashore Al Mahrah Governorate in eastern South Yemen as a severe cyclonic storm on May 18, before dissipating. The next Yemeni landfall would not occur again until 2015 with Cyclone Chapala.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm One
As a developing cyclone, the system brought monsoon-like moisture to much of the Maldives, Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), and southern India between May 14 and 17. The heaviest rains fell on May 17, with 190 mm (7.5 in) recorded at Cochin, India, that day.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Two
On May 25, an upper-level low-pressure system developed over the northern Bay of Bengal. The following day, a surface low formed in association with this feature. By May 27, the low further consolidated into a depression while situated 285 km (175 mi) south of Calcutta, India. Tracking northward, it intensified into a deep depression before making landfall on the Sundarbans region of West Bengal—near the border of East Pakistan—early on May 28. Though it was classified a deep depression, stronger winds of up to 75 km/h (45 mph) were reported from Sagar Island. Based on measurements from nearby stations, it is estimated that the system attained a minimum pressure of 988 mb (hPa; 29.18 inHg) just as it moved ashore. Once inland, the system quickly weakened and accelerated northeastward. It later dissipated over Assam on May 30.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Two
The system produced torrential rains across eastern India and East Pakistan. In Cherrapunji, 540 mm (21 in) of rain fell during a two-day span, while many other areas recorded over 100 mm (3.9 in). No rainfall data were available from West Bengal and Assam. Strong winds from the storm destroyed numerous homes in West Bengal, and at least seven people were killed.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Three
On June 29, a trough, associated with an upper-level low, extended over the northwestern Bay of Bengal. Following a drop in sea-level pressure over the next day, a depression formed in this area. Moving slowly westward, the storm intensified into a deep depression early on July 2. Shortly thereafter, the system made landfall near Angul, India, and accelerated toward the northwest. The system later dissipated on July 4 over Madhya Pradesh after being absorbed back into the trough that it developed from.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Three
Widespread heavy rains accompanied the depression along portions of the coast from Orissa to West Bengal and as far inland as Madhya. Sagar Island recorded at least 360 mm (14 in) of rain over the span of two days, while Vishakhapatnam received 300 mm (12 in) in just one. As much as 100 mm (3.9 in) of precipitation fell across Madhya Pradesh.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression Four
On June 26, a slow-moving trough developed over Gujarat. By July 2, the system developed into a shallow land depression while situated 80 km (50 mi) north of Veraval. Winds in the area were measured up to 45 km/h (30 mph); however, as the system moved offshore, winds quickly increased to 65 km/h (40 mph). Low pressures were recorded across the area, with a minimum of 990.8 mbar (hPa; 29.26 inHg) measured in Dwarka. Becoming nearly stationary off the coast of Gujarat, the depression began to interact with an approaching monsoon.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression Four
This interaction caused winds to increase, with two vessels reporting 75 km/h (45 mph) winds during the late morning hours of July 4. Later that day, the system began moving to the northwest and quickly weakened. It was last noted the following day as a dissipating low over the northeastern Arabian Sea.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression Four
Between July 2 and 4, heavy rains amounting to more than 300 mm (12 in) fell across much of the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. These rains triggered severe flooding that killed at least 35 people and left 6,000 others homeless. At least 500 homes were destroyed in the region.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression Five
On August 6, a westward moving area of low pressure was identified over Burma. Initially an upper-level system, it gradually propagated to the surface, becoming a depression on August 9. Tracking west-northwestward, the system crossed the Indian coastline later that day near Balasore, where a pressure of 996.1 mbar (hPa; 29.41 inHg) was measured. Sustained winds reached just 30 km/h (20 mph). Once onshore, the depression degenerated into a remnant low on August 10. The remnants continued northwestward, ultimately merging with a trough over Uttar Pradesh on August 12.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression Five
The depression dropped heavy rains over parts of India between August 8 and August 14. The highest totals were recorded on August 14 when 240 mm (9.4 in) of rain fell in Jhansi. Significant flooding took place along the Ganges River as a result of the rains. Forty villages along the river near Fatehgarh were inundated.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Six
As the previous depression dissipated over India, a new circulation developed over the Bay of Bengal on August 12. This system quickly became a depression. Moving slowly northwestward, it became a deep depression on August 14 before making landfall in the Sundarbans region. Winds up to 45 km/h (30 mph) were reported in Sandheads. Once onshore, it turned westward and slowed while maintaining its intensity. The system finally weakened on August 18 as it resumed moving northwestward again, and two days later it dissipated over southeastern Rajasthan.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Six
Large portions of India were affected by rains from the depression, with Orissa and Madhya receiving the heaviest rains. According to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, up to 1,000 mm (40 in) of rain fell across portions of Orissa. The tremendous precipitation triggered disastrous floods that killed at least 65 people. Continued rains over the next two weeks exacerbated the situation and by August 30, an estimated 2.5 million people were homeless. Most affected were areas around the Mahanadi River and its tributaries where flood waters reached 3.7 m (12 ft) in depth. At least 85 villages were reportedly destroyed. Orissa government officials described the disaster as "the worst in living memory." Rail lines and roads were severely damaged across the state, hampering initial relief efforts. A total of 1.87 million acres of crops were flooded and overall damage amounted to ₹112 million.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression Seven
On August 20, a wave of low pressure formed over Burma. Moving westwards, this upper-level system triggered the development of a surface low two days later over the Bay of Bengal. Turning northwestward, the low consolidated into a depression by August 24 before making landfall in the Sundarbans region later that day. Once onshore, the depression degenerated into a remnant low; the remnants persisted until August 28 when they were absorbed into a trough over Rajasthan Pradesh.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression Seven
Heavy rains affected much of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh. The highest daily precipitation total was measured in Ghatsila at 190 mm (7.5 in). These rains triggered severe flooding along the Beas, Ganges, Jamuna, and Sutlej rivers. Large areas of Uttar Pradesh were left submerged, and significant crop and property damage took place in Punjab. At least 55 people were killed in Punjab alone, and losses overall amounted to $9.24 million (1960 USD).


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Eight
On September 22, an area of low pressure was identified over the Andaman Sea. Tracking northwestward, the system consolidated into a depression two days later over the Bay of Bengal. During the evening of September 24, it further strengthened to a deep depression, with winds of 55 km/h (35 mph). Early the next day it made landfall in Orissa between Balasore and Chandabali. Once onshore, the system slowed and turned northeastward. It later dissipated over Nepal on September 28 as it interacted with the Himalayas.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Eight
Heavy rains accompanying the depression affected much of Bihar, Orissa, and West Bengal. Many areas recorded more than 200 mm (7.9 in) during a four-day span; the highest single-day total was 270 mm (11 in) in Bahadurganj.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Nine
In late September, a tropical storm developed over the South China Sea. Striking South Vietnam, the storm slowly moved over Indochina, ultimately crossing 100°E and entering the basin on October 5 while over Thailand. After crossing southern Burma, the low moved northwestward over the Bay of Bengal and reorganized. Following a report of 45 km/h (30 mph) winds from the S.S. Glenpark on October 8, the system was classified as a depression. Moving slowly northwestwards, the system further deepened into a cyclonic storm on October 9. Several ships in the path of the storm recorded gale-force winds, depicting its strengthening.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Nine
Early on October 10, it became a severe cyclonic storm and soon reached its peak intensity with winds of 110 km/h (70 mph). Its central pressure at this time was estimated to be 986 mbar (hPa; 29.12 inHg). The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimated that the storm attained one-minute sustained winds of 155 km/h (95 mph). Turning northeastward, the system made landfall between Barisal and Noakhali in East Pakistan, with the eye passing directly over the islands of Bhola, Hatia, and Ramgati. Once onshore, the system quickly weakened and ultimately dissipated over Assam early on October 12.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Nine
Across coastal areas of East Pakistan, the storm wrought catastrophic damage. A 5.8 m (19 ft) tidal surge washed over the islands of Hatia, Sandwip, Kutubdia. Communications across the region were crippled, and it took six days for word of the scale of damage to reach officials. Entire villages were reportedly wiped out by the storm. Approximately 35,000 homes were destroyed, most of which were thatched huts made of bamboo and mud. About 300 schools were also damaged. The worst damage took place on Ramgati Island where 3,500 people were killed.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Nine
Roughly 95 percent of the island's structure were destroyed, forcing residents to cling to trees for survival. Only two police officers survived and were able to inform government officials of the disaster. An estimated 6,000 people perished while another 100,000 were left homeless. Heavy rain accompanied the storm, with Cox's Bazar reporting 180 mm (7.1 in). Relief efforts in the wake of the storm were hampered by the nation's poor infrastructure and debris left behind. On October 18, members of the East Pakistani military were deployed to the hardest hit areas to provide stable communication and clean drinking water.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Ten
On October 26, a trough formed over the south Andaman Sea and extended into the southern Bay of Bengal. By October 28, the system consolidated into a depression as it moved northwestward. Steadily intensifying, several ships encountered the storms increasing winds as it moved northward in the Bay. On October 30, it attained gale-force winds and further became a severe cyclonic storm early the next morning. During the evening of October 31, the IST Barisal recorded winds of 130 km/h (80 mph), indicating that the system had acquired a core of hurricane-force winds.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Ten
The maximum winds of this system is unknown, though reports indicated that winds peaked between 150 and 215 km/h (90 and 135 mph). NOAA estimated that the storm peaked with one-minute sustained winds of 195 km/h (120 mph) and a pressure of 966.7 mbar (hPa; 28.55 inHg). The storm soon made landfall with great intensity near Noakhali, East Pakistan, just three weeks after the previous storm devastated the country. Once onshore, cold, dry air quickly wrapped around the backside of the cyclone. Within four hours of landfall, little rainfall was reported near the storm's eye. The cyclone rapidly weakened and dissipated the following day over the Lushai Hills.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Ten
Striking East Pakistan as a powerful storm, the system produced a storm tide of 6.1 m (20 ft) that moved 16 km (10 mi) inland, devastating many communities. A storm surge of 6.7 m (22 ft) was measured in Halishahar. In addition to the surge, there was a series of tidal waves that followed the storm, causing additional damage. Offshore, these waves were estimated at 12.2 m (40 ft); though they significantly decreased before impacting land. Chittagong and surrounding communities were regarded as the hardest hit, with most being submerged in 3 m (10 ft) of water.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Ten
The city's port was largely destroyed, with almost every vessel washed ashore. Some were found 16 km (10 mi) away and one even at another port. The storm's intense winds, estimated as high as 240 km/h (150 mph) on Sandwip Island, leveled buildings and scattered debris over large distances. Crops were flattened by the storm and in some instances had been "burnt" by the sheer force of the wind. A total of 14,174 people perished in the storm while another 200,000 were left homeless. Following the mass casualties from the two storms, the Government of Pakistan requested the assistance of former National Hurricane Center director, Gordon E. Dunn, to improve the warning system.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression Eleven
On November 5, an area of low pressure was identified over Lakshadweep. Tracking generally northwestward, it gradually organized into a depression by November 7. No further development took place over the following days and the system eventually degraded into a remnant low on November 10. Though the storm itself did not impact land, associated moisture combined with a low over the Bay of Bengal to produce heavy rains across Madras State and nearby islands from November 5 to 10.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Shallow Depression Twelve
On November 7, an area of low pressure over the Bay of Bengal formed and gradually moved towards India. By November 9, it was located just of the Coromandel Coast. The following day, it deepened into a depression while situated off the northern edge of Ceylon. Becoming nearly stationary, the system failed to develop and soon weakened into a remnant low. The low dissipated early on November 12. Heavy rains fell across much of Madras State in association with the system; a 24‑hour total of 240 mm (9.4 in) was reported in Nagapattinam. These rains triggered significant flooding that disrupted travel and communications. Severe damage took place in Madurai where 10,000 people were left homeless. Overall, five people were killed and 150,000 were left homeless.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Thirteen
On November 14, an area of low pressure formed to the west of Lakshadweep. Tracking generally westward, it eventually developed into a depression three days later. Gradual intensification took place over the following two days, with the system becoming a cyclonic storm on November 19. On November 20, the system attained its peak intensity with winds of 75 km/h (45 mph) and a minimum pressure of 994 mbar (hPa; 29.35 inHg). Continuing westward, the cyclone entered the Gulf of Aden on November 22 before becoming nearly stationary. During this time, it weakened to a depression before dissipating the following day.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Fourteen
A well-defined area of low pressure was identified over the southwestern Bay of Bengal on November 17. The following day, the system developed into a depression as it moved slowly northwestward. On November 20, as it neared the coast of Tamil Nadu, it intensified into a cyclonic storm, with gusts estimated as high as 135 km/h (84 mph). Shortly thereafter, it made landfall near Chennai. In nearby Tambaram, a pressure of 995.7 mbar (hPa; 29.40 inHg) was recorded, the lowest in relation to the cyclone. A small storm, it quickly weakened once onshore and was last noted early on November 21 as a dissipating low.


1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Fourteen
Heavy rains impacted most of southern Madras State, with a maximum daily total of 110 mm (4.3 in) in Punalur. The most significant damage took place in Madras City where gale-force winds uprooted trees and disrupted transport and communications. Many poorly constructed homes were damaged or destroyed by the storm, leaving numerous low-income families homeless.