1962 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Game summaries
In the home opener at Sun Devil Stadium, the Sun Devils recorded a 35-0 shutout victory over Colorado State on September 29.


1962 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Game summaries
On October 6, ASU ended in a 26-26 tie against Washington State in Tempe. Arizona State allowed a single game school-record with Washington State's three two-point conversions.


1962 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Game summaries
The Devils dropped a 15-14 home contest to West Texas State on October 13.


1962 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Game summaries
On October 20, Arizona State rebounded with a 44-8 home win over San Jose State. Tony Lorick recorded a 73-yard punt for the Maroon & Gold.


1962 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Game summaries
The Sun Devils beat Texas-El Paso 35-7 at Sun Devil Stadium on October 27.


1962 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Game summaries
On November 3, ASU prevailed for a 34-15 home victory against Utah State.


1962 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Game summaries
The Devils dominated Utah in a 35-7 home win on November 10.


1962 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Game summaries
In the home finale on November 17, Arizona State defeated New Mexico State 45-20 for their 5th straight win.


1962 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Game summaries
In the Arizona–Arizona State football rivalry game played on November 24 in Tucson, the Sun Devils closed the season with a 20-17 loss to Arizona.


1962 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Roster
Arizona State's usual offensive lineup included wide receiver Dale Keller, left tackle John Seedborg, left guard Bob Widmer, center Steve Fedorchak, right guard Joe Kush, right tackle Mike Krofchik, tight end Roger Locke, quarterback John Jacobs, halfback Tony Lorick, fullback Mitch Siskowski, and wingback Charley Taylor. Gene Foster, Alonzo Hill, Bob Kec, Joe Pico, Chris Stetzar, and Larry Todd were also on the roster.


1962 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Awards and honors
Two Arizona State players received first-team honors on the 1962 All-Western Athletic Conference team: quarterback John Jacobs and tight end Roger Locke. Two others received second-team honors: halfback Tony Lorick and wingback Charley Taylor.


1962 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Awards and honors
After the 1962 season, Roger Locke played in both the 1962 Blue-Gray Classic and the 1963 Senior Bowl.


1962 Arizona State–Flagstaff Lumberjacks football team
The 1962 Arizona State–Flagstaff Lumberjacks football team was an American football team that represented Arizona State College at Flagstaff (now known as Northern Arizona University) in the Frontier Conference during the 1962 NAIA football season. In their seventh year under head coach Max Spilsbury, the Lumberjacks compiled a 6–4 record (2–0 against conference opponents), won the Frontier Conference championship, and were outscored by a total of 173 to 169.


1962 Arizona State–Flagstaff Lumberjacks football team
The team played its home games at Lumberjack Stadium in Flagstaff, Arizona.


1962 Arizona Wildcats football team
The 1962 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. In their fourth season under head coach Jim LaRue, the Wildcats compiled a 5–5 record (2–2 against WAC opponents), finished in a tie for third place in the WAC, and were outscored by their opponents, 171 to 134. The team captains were Ken Cook and Howard Breinig. The team played its home games in Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona.


1962 Arizona Wildcats football team
The team's statistical leaders included Bill Brechler with 261 passing yards, Tom Kosser with 415 rushing yards, and Ken Cook with 187 receiving yards.


1962 Arizona gubernatorial election
The 1962 Arizona gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Governor Paul Fannin ran for reelection against President of the Western Conference of United Funds Samuel Pearson Goddard in the general election, winning a third consecutive term, a first for a Republican Governor in Arizona. Fannin was sworn into his third term on January 1, 1963.


1962 Arkansas Razorbacks football team
The 1962 Arkansas Razorbacks football team represented the University of Arkansas in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. In their fifth year under head coach Frank Broyles, the Razorbacks compiled a 9–2 record (6–1 against SWC opponents), finished in second place in the SWC, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 299 to 115. The Razorbacks' only loss during the regular season came against Texas by a 7–3 score. The team was ranked #6 in both the final AP Poll and the final UPI Coaches Poll and went on to lose to Ole Miss in the 1963 Sugar Bowl by a 17–13 score.


1962 Arkansas Razorbacks football team
Arkansas quarterback Billy Moore was selected by the Football Writers Association of America and the Newspaper Enterprise Association as a first-team player on the 1962 College Football All-America Team. Moore scored 14 touchdowns, which tied him with the Miami Redskins' kicker Bob Jencks in scoring. Future Razorback head coach Ken Hatfield finished second in the country in punt return yards, behind Utah State's Darrell Roberts. Razorback kicker Tom McKnelly was fourth in kick scoring, with 33 extra points and three field goals.


1962 Arkansas Razorbacks football team
The Razorbacks' offensive unit averaged 5.0 yards per play and 357 yards per game, the seventh-best mark in 1962. Arkansas also averaged 28.6 points per game, the fifth-highest average nationally. Running on the Razorback defense was tough, as the unit gave up 90.7 yards per contest, the seventh-lowest total in the nation.


1962 Arkansas Razorbacks football team
Despite a 9–2 record, the Razorbacks finished second in the SWC to Texas, which was 9–1–1, losing only in the Cotton Bowl Classic to LSU, 13–0.


1962 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Sugar Bowl
The 1963 Sugar Bowl matched up rivals Arkansas and Ole Miss in the Razorbacks second straight Sugar Bowl, and fourth bowl in four seasons. The Rebels also had reached four consecutive bowl games.


1962 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Sugar Bowl
After each team kicked field goals, Ole Miss scored the first touchdown, a 33-yard strike from Glynn Griffing to Louis Guy that gave the Rebels a 10–3 lead. The Hogs replied with a five-yard touchdown toss from Billy Moore to knot the game at 10. Ole Miss QB Griffing then scored on a one-yard touchdown scamper. The Razorbacks tacked on a field goal, but, as neither team could dent the scoreboard in the fourth quarter, lost by a 17–13 final.


1962 Arkansas gubernatorial election
The 1962 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1962.


1962 Arkansas gubernatorial election
Incumbent Democratic Governor Orval Faubus won election to a fifth term, defeating Republican nominee Willis Ricketts with 73.27% of the vote.


1962 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Primary elections
Primary elections were held on July 31, 1962. By winning over 50% of the vote, Faubus avoided a run-off which would have been held on August 14, 1962.


1962 Arlington State Rebels football team
The 1962 Arlington State Rebels football team was an American football team that represented  Arlington State College (now known as the University of Texas at Arlington) as an independent during the 1962 NCAA College Division football season. In their tenth year under head coach Chena Gilstrap, the team compiled a 4–6 record.


1962 Armstrong 500
The 1962 Armstrong 500 was an endurance race for Australian built production cars. The race was held at the Phillip Island circuit in Victoria, Australia on 21 October 1962 over 167 laps of the 3.0 mile circuit, a total of 501 miles. Cars competed in four classes based on the retail price of each model. Officially, only class placings were awarded but the No 21 Ford Falcon driven by Harry Firth and Bob Jane was recognised as "First across the line". This was the third and last Armstrong 500 to be held at Phillip Island prior to the race being moved to the Mount Panorama Circuit at Bathurst in New South Wales where it later became known as the Bathurst 1000.


1962 Armstrong 500, Class structure
For the 1962 race the division of classes was changed from engine capacity, used in the previous two Armstrong 500s, to the purchase price (in Australian pounds, the currency of the era) of the vehicle on the Australian market, with the intent to allow members of the public to make comparisons between cars which they could personally afford. An upper limit of £2000 was established to prevent the race from being dominated by purpose-built sports cars. These changes saw the Renault Gordinis move up from Class D to Class C, while the Volkswagens dropped from C to D. Volkswagen would break through for their first class victory this year.


1962 Armstrong 500, Class structure, Class A
Class A was for cars with a purchase price of between £1251 and £2000. The class featured Chrysler Valiant, Citroën ID19, Ford Zephyr, Studebaker Lark and Vauxhall Velox.


1962 Armstrong 500, Class structure, Class B
Class B was for cars with a purchase price of between £1051 and £1250. The class was dominated by the new Ford Falcon XL but also feature Austin Freeway and Holden EJ.


1962 Armstrong 500, Class structure, Class C
Class C was for cars with a purchase price of between £901 and £1050. The class featured Hillman Minx, Morris Major, Renault Gordini and Simca Aronde.


1962 Armstrong 500, Class structure, Class D
Class D was for cars with a purchase price of less than £900. The class featured Ford Anglia, Morris 850, Triumph Herald and Volkswagen.


1962 Armstrong 500, Race
The race was dominated by the XL series Ford Falcon, three of which were amongst the first four finishers, led by the factory-supported car of defending winners Harry Firth and Bob Jane. On the same lap as Firth and Jane was the Class A winning Studebaker of Fred Sutherland and Bill Graetz, who won the class by four laps, defeating the factory-supported Ford Zephyr being driven by Geoff Russell and David Anderson, denying them a third consecutive class victory. This was as close as a Studebaker would get to an outright victory in the history of the event.


1962 Armstrong 500, Race
In Class C a Renault Gordini won despite being moved up from Class D with Rex Emmett, John Connolly and 1975 winner Brian Sampson winning by four laps. The Renault Gordini driven by Emmett, Connolly and Sampson which covered the most laps in Class C was initially disqualified after the race along with the Morris 850 driven by Allen and Hooker which crossed the line in second place in Class D. Appeals were lodged in both cases. Later published results show the cars as first in Class C and second in Class D respectively.


1962 Armstrong 500, Race
Jim McKeown, an emerging star in small capacity touring cars, and George Reynolds took their Volkswagen to the Class D victory, beating the leading Mini by a lap. Reynolds too had an outright victory in store in just two years time in 1964.


1962 Armstrong 500, Aftermath
The toil placed on the cold mix bitumen surface by the race, with the largest entry the race had seen, overwhelmed the Phillip Island racetrack. Dangerous potholes formed all around the circuit, leaving a hefty repair bill, and an ominous threat to the future growth of the race. Staying at Phillip Island, as attractive as other factors presented, was plainly impossible and the search began by the promoters for a new home for the increasingly popular endurance production car race. Earlier the same year the Bathurst Six Hour Classic had been held at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst (won by a Daimler not eligible to run in the Armstrong), and that circuit immediately entered speculation.


1962 Army Cadets football team
The 1962 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. In their first year under head coach Paul Dietzel, the Cadets compiled a 6–4 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 152 to 104. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen by a 34 to 14 score. The Cadets also lost to Michigan, Oklahoma State, and Pittsburgh.


1962 Army Cadets football team
No Army players were selected on the 1962 College Football All-America Team.


1962 Asian Badminton Championships
The 1962 Asia Badminton Championships was the 1st tournament of the Badminton Asia Championships. It was held May 1962 in Kuala lumpur, Malaysia.


1962 Asian Baseball Championship
The 1962 Asian Baseball Championship was the fourth continental tournament held by the Baseball Federation of Asia. The tournament was held in Taipei, Taiwan for the first time. It was the third time Japan had won the tournament, having won all three Asian Championships in a row. Taiwan (2nd), South Korea (3rd) and Philippines (4th) were the other participants.


1962 Asian Baseball Championship, Bibliography
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1962 Asian Games
The 1962 Asian Games (Indonesian: Asian Games 1962, Asian Games IV, Asian Games ke-4) also known as the 4th Asian Games, IV Asiad, and Jakarta 1962, was the fourth edition of pan-Asian multi-sport event sanctioned by the Asian Games Federation (AGF). The games were held from 24 August to 4 September 1962, in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was the first international multi-sport event hosted by the then-17-year-old Southeast Asian country. This was the first of two Asian Games hosted by the city: the second was held in 2018, with Palembang as the co-host.


1962 Asian Games
Israel and the Republic of China (ROC) were excluded from the Games, as in solidarity with People's Republic of China and fellow-Muslim majority countries in the Middle East, Indonesian immigration officials refused to issue entry visas for the Israeli and Taiwanese delegations.


1962 Asian Games
It was a breach of the rules of the AGF, and Indonesia's own promise to invite all AGF members, including those with whom it had no diplomatic relations (Israel, ROC and the Republic of Korea).


1962 Asian Games
As a result, Indonesia was suspended from the International Olympic Committee, and were subsequently excluded from the 1964 Summer Olympics. Indonesia responded to this punishment by hosting the Games of the New Emerging Forces in 1963.


1962 Asian Games
A total number of 1,460 athletes, coming from 17 countries, competed in this Asiad, where badminton made its debut.


1962 Asian Games, Bid
On 23 May 1958, voting for the 1962 host took place in Tokyo, Japan, before the 1958 Asian Games. The Asian Games Federation council voted 22–20 in favour of the Indonesian capital over Pakistani city of Karachi, the only other candidate.


1962 Asian Games, Venues
All but three official sports were held inside or around the Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex, temporarily called the Asian Games Complex. The shooting event was held in Cibubur Shooting Range, in what is now lies within East Jakarta. The weightlifting and wrestling events were held at Ikada Sports Hall, now demolished to make way for the National Monument. The nearby Ikada Stadium was also used for football event, as well as Tebet football pitch, located southeast of the complex. The archery demonstration event was held at Menteng Stadium.


1962 Asian Games, Sports
While Weightlifting was in the program, the IWF withdrew recognition of the Asian Games competition after the Indonesian federation barred Taiwan and Israel from taking part.


1962 Asian Games, Participating nations
Athletes from 17 nations competed at the Jakarta Games. Sarawak made its first Asian Games appearance in 1962.


1962 Asian Games, Medal table
The top ten ranked NOCs at these Games are listed below. The host nation, Indonesia, is highlighted.


1962 Asian Games, Broadcasting
In Indonesia, a television station TVRI was established by the Indonesian government to broadcast the games for the general public, which was the first in the country. The station would become the main channel of TVRI network; and its first airdate, which coincides with the opening ceremony, become the network's founding date.


1962 Asian Games medal table
The 1962 Asian Games, officially known as the Fourth Asian Games, was a multi-sport event held in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 24 August to 4 September 1962. This edition of the Asian Games was a subject of major international controversy when the host nation denied two Asian Games Federation members, Republic of China and Israel, to participate in the Games. Consequently, the International Olympic Committee revoked the Indonesia's membership and barred it from participating in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The Games and related infrastructure development projects in Jakarta were heavily funded by the Soviet Union and were given "top priority" by the then-President of Indonesia, Sukarno.


1962 Assam Legislative Assembly election
Elections to the Assam Legislative Assembly were held in 1962. A total of 409 candidates contested the 105 constituencies. 101 men and four women were elected. The Indian National Congress won 79 seats, the All Party Hill Leaders Conference won eleven seats and independent contestants won eight seats.


1962 Assam Legislative Assembly election
Of the 105 seats in the Legislative Assembly, 77 were general, 23 were for scheduled tribes and five were for scheduled castes.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1962 Atlantic hurricane season featured Hurricanes Daisy and Ella – two tropical cyclones that showed the latest dates for the fourth and fifth named storms on record since tropical cyclones were first named in the North Atlantic ocean, starting in 1950, when they both formed on September 29 and October 14. On the same hand, it was the least active since 1939, with only five named storms. Although the season officially began on June 15, the first named storm did not form until August 26, the third-latest date.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season
Hurricane Alma brushed the Outer Banks before becoming extratropical southeast of New England, destroying hundreds of boats and producing beneficial rainfall. In late August, Tropical Storm Becky developed unusually far east in the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the easternmost storm on record to recurve to the northeast. Celia followed in the September, forming east of the Lesser Antilles and executing a loop near Bermuda before dissipating. Hurricane Daisy, the latest fourth named storm, was the costliest of the season, leaving about $1.1 million in damage in New England (1962 USD). The storm dropped the highest rainfall total on record in Maine, and its precipitation caused 22 traffic fatalities. The final hurricane – Ella – the latest fifth named storm – was also the strongest, remaining offshore of the eastern United States but causing two deaths.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season
In addition to the five named storms, there were three non-developing tropical depressions. The first struck Texas in August, causing street flooding and killing three. The second of three formed off the west coast of Florida and flooded widespread areas after 1 in 100 year rainfall. The floods affected 5,000 houses and caused millions in damage. The third of three non-developing storms moved across the Caribbean before striking Nicaragua in October. The season officially ended on November 15.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Season activity
The hurricane season officially began on June 15, 1962. The National Hurricane Center began operations with no new equipment, and the warning agency instead opted to improve with the existing equipment. The agency had access to a system of radars that extended from Brownsville, Texas, to Eastport, Maine, which was set up in 1961. Although satellite imagery technology was available, the system was not fully active to provide daily images of Atlantic hurricanes. The season officially ended on November 15.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Season activity
During the season, three hurricanes developed from five named storms. This was below the average of 10 storms per season, and represented the fewest tropical storms since 1939. Four of the five storms developed from the Intertropical Convergence Zone. The decreased activity is partially due to the westerlies extending further south than usual, as well as a persistent ridge. In addition, temperatures in the eastern United States were cooler than usual. Activity through September 10 was the quietest in 30 years.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Season activity
The only region of the United States threatened by hurricanes was New England, although no stations recorded hurricane-force winds in the country. This was the first such occurrence during the 20th century that no tropical storms or hurricanes hit the country. Overall damage was the lowest in several years.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One
The first storm of the season originated from a cold front that stalled over the western Atlantic Ocean on June 28. A frontal low developed a day later off the coast of South Carolina. The low moved northward and northward, gradually acquiring tropical characteristics. The Atlantic hurricane reanalysis committee assessed that the system transitioned into a tropical storm by late on June 30, while moving over the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The storm at the time was co-located with an upper-level low, suggesting characteristics of a subtropical cyclone.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One
Based on reports from ships and land stations, the maximum sustained winds were estimated at 65 mph (100 km/h). On July 1, an approaching cold front steered the storm away from the coast. The storm gradually weakened and transitioned back into an extratropical cyclone late on July 2. Turning to the north, the storm moved across Newfoundland, and curved to the west and southwest, striking New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The storm turned back to the northeast, remaining offshore Nova Scotia until it was absorbed by an approaching extratropical storm on July 6.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm One
While in its formative stages, the storm dropped torrential rainfall in coastal portions of North Carolina, causing locally heavy crop damage. Cedar Island reported 17 in (430 mm) of rainfall in an 18-hour period; at the time, it was the second-highest single-day rainfall total.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Alma
A tropical wave developed into a tropical depression along the southeast Florida coast on August 26. It moved northward along the coast, located beneath an anticyclone that aided in its intensification. The depression began a motion to the northeast on August 27, and that day it strengthened into Tropical Storm Alma about 150 mi (240 km) east of the Florida/Georgia border. This marked the latest development of the first storm since 1941. Alma steadily intensified as it paralleled the coastline of the Carolinas, becoming a hurricane on August 28 a few miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Alma
Despite its proximity, the storm produced peak wind gusts of only 53 mph (85 km/h) in Nags Head. Wind gusts downed a power pole in Hatteras, which caused an hour long power outage for one-third of the town. There, the storm tide was 3 ft (0.91 m) above normal, which resulted in some erosion. The highest rainfall total from Alma in the United States was a report of 10.38 in (264 mm) in Cape Hatteras. Damage in the state amounted to $35,000.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Alma
After passing the Outer Banks, Alma continued to intensify further, reaching peak winds of 85 mph (140 km/h) about 85 mi (140 km) south of Nantucket. Despite its intensity, the hurricane never developed a well-defined eye. Alma quickly weakened to a tropical storm as it made its closest approach to New England, due to cooler water temperatures. In Rhode Island and Massachusetts along the coast, the storm produced northerly winds of 60 mph (97 km/h), and one house was damaged by a fallen tree. Tides reached 2 ft (0.61 m) above normal, which resulted in minor coastal flooding.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Alma
However, Alma produced strong waves that destroyed over 100 boats. Damage from the storm was estimated at less than $1 million, though its rains were beneficial to drought-stricken areas of New England. Precipitation extended northward through Maine, and storm damage was reported as far north as Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Slick roads resulted in several traffic accidents, although there were no deaths. After moving by the region, Alma turned to the southeast due to a high-pressure system to its north. It became extratropical on August 30.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Three
On August 26, a tropical depression formed in the western Gulf of Mexico about 280 mi (450 km) northeast of Tampico, Tamaulipas. It moved slowly to the north-northwest around a ridge without intensifying beyond winds of 30 mph (45 km/h). The system encountered wind shear throughout its duration, which displaced the convection from the center to its northeast. The depression struck just west of the Texas/Louisiana border on August 29 before dissipating on August 30. Rainfall in Texas was minimal, estimated around 1 in (25 mm).


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Three
However, heavy amounts of precipitation fell across Louisiana, peaking at 23.13 in (588 mm) near Hackberry. Rainfall extended northeastward through Arkansas and Missouri. On August 29 as the depression moved ashore, heavy rainfall caused street flooding in Cameron, Louisiana. Two tornadoes were reported in the town, one of which produced winds of 80 mph (130 km/h). The storms damaged 115 houses or trailers, of which one was destroyed. There were 30 people injured, of whom 18 required hospital attention, and there were three deaths.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Becky
A tropical disturbance emerged from Africa in late August and developed into a weak tropical depression on August 27. For about 30 hours, the system affected the Cape Verde islands with rainfall, during which it moved slowly to the west and west-northwest. Late on August 28, it was estimated that the depression intensified into a tropical storm. The next day, satellite imagery observed a well-developed tropical cyclone in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean. In addition, a ship reported winds of force 9 on the Beaufort scale, suggesting winds of 50 mph (80 km/h).


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Becky
On that basis, the Weather Bureau initiated advisories on Tropical Storm Becky, despite the agency only issuing advisories for storms west of 35° W. Around that time, the storm moved over an area of anomalously warm water temperatures, which allowed for its intensification. On August 30, Becky turned to the north and northeast due to an approaching trough, becoming the easternmost cyclone since 1886 that a storm began a motion to the north. A hurricane hunters flight on August 31 indicated that Becky became extratropical about 70 mi (115 km) south of Santa Maria Island in the Azores. The storm's remnants continued to the northeast, dissipating on September 1 about 320 mi (515 km) west of Spain.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Celia
A tropical wave developed into a tropical depression on September 12, about 1,000 mi (1,610 km) east of the Lesser Antilles. However, satellite imagery indicated that it could have become a tropical cyclone a day earlier. Late on September 12, a ship reported winds of 40 mph (64 km/h), which provided the basis for the San Juan Weather Bureau to initiate advisories on Tropical Storm Celia. The storm quickly attained peak winds of 70 mph (110 km/h), and on September 13 a hurricane watch was issued for the northern Leeward Islands.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Celia
However, Celia passed beneath a mid- to upper-level trough and quickly weakened. By late on September 14, a hurricane hunters flight indicated that the storm's structure no longer resembled that of a tropical cyclone. The next day, Celia weakened to a tropical depression, and the Weather Bureau discontinued tropical cyclone advisories. It turned to the north and later to the east, passing well southeast of Bermuda. On September 18, Celia began executing a loop to the north, during which it re-intensified into a tropical storm, as reported by ships. It attained winds of 45 mph (70 km/h) on September 19, but again weakened to a tropical depression the next day. Celia became extratropical on September 21, without having affected land.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Six
An upper-level low spawned a tropical depression off the west coast of Florida on September 20. The depression moved very slowly to the north-northwest, which produced heavy rainfall from Naples to Tampa, Florida. The highest total was 16.60 in (422 mm) in Sarasota, although precipitation of over 1 in (25 mm) extended into Georgia and extreme southern South Carolina. A developing cyclone off the Carolinas caused the dissipation of the depression on September 23.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Six
The rains in Sarasota were the highest since 1945, and some locations experienced 1 in 100 year rainfall totals. The rains resulted in 3 ft (0.91 m) of floodwaters across western Florida, and both the Manatee River and the Phillippi Creek experienced record crests. The flooding entered over 5,000 houses, which forced the evacuation of more than 100 families. The floods also caused schools to close in three counties. In addition, floodwaters affected thousands of acres of farmlands in six counties, and some did not dry out for several weeks. Wind gusts reached 58 mph (93 km/h) in eastern Florida, and more than 20,000 people were left without power. There was one death in the state related to the storm, and damage was estimated at $2.78 million.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Daisy
On September 29, reconnaissance aircraft indicated the formation of a tropical depression to the east of the Lesser Antilles. For several days it moved to the west-northwest, passing just north of the islands without intensifying further. This was due to its presence beneath an upper-level trough, although the system began intensifying as the trough dissipated. On October 2, after turning to the northwest between two high-pressure areas, the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Daisy. Developing an anticyclone aloft, the storm continued to gradually intensify, reaching hurricane strength on October 3.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Daisy
Two days later, Daisy turned to the north-northeast and attained peak winds of 105 mph (165 km/h). Cool air imparted weakening as Daisy turned northwestward, and on October 7, the storm transitioned into an extratropical about 185 mi (300 km) east of Chatham, Massachusetts. On the following day, the extratropical remnants of Daisy struck Nova Scotia just south of Yarmouth and later re-emerged into the Atlantic, before dissipating south of Newfoundland on October 9.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Daisy
In New England, Hurricane Daisy's outer rainbands combined with an approaching nor'easter to drop torrential rainfall over the region for 65 hours, producing upwards of 12 in (300 mm) in portions of Massachusetts. The highest total from Daisy alone was 9.47 in (241 mm) at Portland International Jetport in Maine; this was the state's highest tropical cyclone rainfall total between 1950 and 2011. Across the region, the rains caused widespread flood damage. In Maine, wind gusts reaching 70 mph (110 km/h) destroyed hundreds of small boats, along with high waves from the storm.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Daisy
In New England, Daisy left five injuries, one direct death, and about $1.1 million in damage. Slick roads, however, resulted in 22 traffic fatalities. In Nova Scotia, winds gusted to 85 mph (137 km/h), which destroyed three boats and left two towns without power service. Rough seas killed six people in the province.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ella
In the middle of October, an area of disturbed weather persisted across the Turks and Caicos Islands, associated with an upper-level low. On October 14, a tropical depression developed and moved northward. A day after forming, it intensified into Tropical Storm Ella as it began a track to the northwest, located east of a weakening upper-level trough. On October 17, Ella strengthened further into a hurricane as an anticyclone was gradually developing.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ella
An approaching trough turned the hurricane to the east-northeast on October 19, and later that day Ella attained its peak intensity of 110 mph (175 km/h); that made it the strongest hurricane of the season. It gradually weakened over cooler waters while accelerating to the northeast, and its eye grew to an unusually large diameter of 100 mi (160 km). Ella became extratropical on October 22 over the northern Atlantic as it interacted with an approaching cold front. Shortly thereafter its remnants moved over Newfoundland before dissipating on October 23.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ella
Ella is historically notable for its role in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The storm greatly complicated naval operations relating to the 'quarantine' blockade of Cuba and badly damaged several Soviet nuclear-armed submarines en route to the island, contributing to the escalation of the B-59 Incident. Early in its duration, Hurricane Ella briefly threatened to strike the North Carolina coastline. Although it remained offshore, the hurricane produced significant beach erosion along the coast. There were two associated deaths from a missing motor boat that left Charleston, South Carolina. The crew of two was declared deceased after a Coast Guard, Navy, and Air Force search failed to locate their bodies. There was no damage in Canada from its remnants.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ten
On November 25, a cold front was stalled over the western Atlantic Ocean. A day later, an extratropical storm producing hurricane-force winds developed about 200 mi (320 km) south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The storm remained nearly stationary for several days near the coast, drifting westward and later to the south. On November 27, the storm's wind structure became more symmetric, with an inner core developing inside the larger extratropical low.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ten
Based on ship reports near the center, the system transitioned into a hurricane early on November 28; due to its interaction with the extratropical storm, the system was potentially a subtropical cyclone, although the lack of satellite imagery prevented such a classification. By later on November 28, the hurricane weakened to a tropical storm, affected by wind shear. By that point, the storm had turned to the east, followed by a turn to the northwest and later west-southwest on the next day. Late on November 30, satellite imagery indicated an eye-like feature in the center of the storm.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ten
A day later, the storm re-intensified into a hurricane, reaching its peak intensity of 90 mph (150 km/h). On December 2, the hurricane turned back to the southwest as it made its closest approach to the Outer Banks. Stronger wind shear caused the hurricane to weaken to a tropical storm again on December 3, as an approaching cold front steered the storm northeastward. Two days later, the storm transitioned back into an extratropical storm to the east of the Outer Banks, briefly regaining hurricane intensity on December 5. A day later, a larger extratropical storm over the northeastern United States absorbed the former hurricane.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ten
For several days, the storm meandered off the southeast coast of the United States, producing high tides and beach erosion from Florida to Virginia; many of these areas were affected by a severe nor'easter in March 1962. The storm's interaction with a ridge to its northeast produced a strong pressure gradient, resulting in gale-force winds across the Virginia and North Carolina coast. In Virginia, a dredge involved in the construction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel broke loose and rain aground. During the storm's formative stages, it produced wind gusts of 89 mph (143 km/h) on Oak Island, North Carolina.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ten
High waves washed away dunes, wrecked coastal houses, and sank several boats, including a ferry. The storm washed out a temporary bridge and deepened a temporary inlet on Hatteras Island north of Buxton, both the aftermath of the March 1962 storm. As a tropical cyclone, the hurricane produced tropical storm force winds along the North Carolina coast. Rainfall associated with the storm was generally light, except for portions of the Outer Banks and in Georgia.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other systems
On April 28, a trough existed north of Puerto Rico, spawning a tropical depression on April 30. The system moved northeastward, potentially developing into a tropical storm. An approaching cold front absorbed the system on May 3.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other systems
On September 27, a tropical depression developed east of the Lesser Antilles. It moved through the islands without intensifying beyond winds of 30 mph (45 km/h). The depression later crossed the entirety of the Caribbean Sea. On October 3, it struck northeastern Nicaragua, before becoming a remnant low-pressure area the following day over Guatemala.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Storm names
The following names were used for named storms (tropical storms and hurricanes) that formed in the North Atlantic in 1962. Names that were not assigned are marked in gray. Because of the season's relatively low impact, no storms were retired during the 1962 season, and the name Celia was used for the first time.


1962 Atlantic hurricane season, Season effects
The following table lists all of the storms that have formed in the 1962 Atlantic hurricane season. It includes their duration, names, landfall(s) (in parentheses), damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a wave, or a low, and all of the damage figures are in 1962 USD.


1962 Auburn Tigers football team
The 1962 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. It was the Tigers' 71st overall and 29th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan, in his 12th year, and played their home games at Cliff Hare Stadium in Auburn and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished with a record of six wins, three losses and one tie (6–3–1 overall, 4–3 in the SEC).


1962 Auckland City mayoral election
The 1962 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1962, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty-one city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.


1962 Auckland City mayoral election, Background
Incumbent Mayor Dove-Myer Robinson was re-elected against past president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce Edgar Faber, who despite possessing a low public profile and comparative lack of local body experience did better than expected. The election also saw the Labour Party split from the Civic Reform ticket.


1962 Auckland City mayoral election, Background
Faber was a reluctant candidate from the beginning, who was only persuaded to run for the mayoralty after a group of Citizens & Ratepayers (C&R) councillors (Fred de Malmanche, Charlie Passmore and Reg Savory) told him exaggerated stories of Robinson's personal conduct and his behaviour during council business. During the campaign Faber began to regret his candidacy and when it began to adversely affect his health he planned to withdraw from the contest, but the C&R trio were insistent that he stay in the race. Shortly after the election ended Faber discovered that he was in fact dying of cancer and confided to Robinson that the C&R councillors had used him against Robinson for "purely mercenary ends".


1962 Australia Cup
The 1962 Australia Cup was the first season of the Australia Cup, which was the main national association football knockout cup competition in Australia. 16 teams from around Australia entered the competition. The competition consisted of four clubs from Victoria and Sydney's competition, three from Queensland and South Australia and two from Northern New South Wales. The winner of the Australia Cup received £5,000.


1962 Australia Cup
The inaugural season of the Cup was won by Yugal who defeated St George Budapest 8–1 at Wentworth Park in the final. The third place playoff, between Juventus (now Brunswick Zebras from Melbourne) and Juventus (now Adelaide City), was won by the South Australian team on penalty kicks.


1962 Australia Cup Final
The 1962 Australia Cup Final was the first Australia Cup Final, the final match of the 1962 Australia Cup. It was played at Wentworth Park in Sydney, Australia, on 9 December 1962, contested by Yugal and St George Budapest. Yugal won the match 8–1, with four goals from Tiko Jelisavčić, two goals from Eric Schwarts and one goal each for Tony Nincevich and Slavko Pacanin.


1962 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand
The 1962 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand was a series of thirteen matches played by the Wallabies in August and September 1962.


1962 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand
This tour was made two months after the All Blacks had toured Australia. The result of the first test was a draw but the Wallabies were defeated in the other two tests. So the Bledisloe Cup, contested for the first time since 1962 remained with New Zealand.


1962 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand
The tour marked the commencement of the successful "Thornett Era" of Australian Rugby, buoyed by the leadership skills of skipper John Thornett and the outstanding skills of greats of the game like Ken Catchpole, Peter Johnson and Rob Heming. It was the debut tour of Dick Marks and Peter Crittle who would later serve as influential administrators of Australian rugby.


1962 Australian Championships
The 1962 Australian Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on outdoor Grass courts at the White City Tennis Club, Sydney, Australia from 5 January to 15 January. It was the 50th edition of the Australian Championships (now known as the Australian Open), the 14th held in Sydney, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. The singles titles were taken by Rod Laver and Margaret Smith. Laver's win was the first step towards his first Grand Slam.


1962 Australian Championships, Champions, Men's Doubles
Roy Emerson /  Neale Fraser defeated  Bob Hewitt /  Fred Stolle 4–6, 4–6, 6–1, 6–4, 11–9


1962 Australian Championships, Champions, Women's Doubles
Robyn Ebbern /  Margaret Smith defeated  Darlene Hard /  Mary Carter Reitano 6–4, 6–4


1962 Australian Championships, Champions, Mixed Doubles
Lesley Turner /  Fred Stolle defeated   Darlene Hard /  Roger Taylor 6–3, 9–7


1962 Australian Championships – Men's Singles
First-seeded Rod Laver defeated Roy Emerson 8–6, 0–6, 6–4, 6–4 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1962 Australian Championships.


1962 Australian Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Rod Laver is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1962 Australian Championships – Women's Singles
First-seeded Margaret Smith defeated Jan Lehane 6–0, 6–2 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1962 Australian Championships.


1962 Australian Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Margaret Smith is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1962 Australian Drivers' Championship
The 1962 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers  of Formula Libre racing cars. The winner of the title, which was the sixth Australian Drivers' Championship, was awarded the 1962 CAMS Gold Star.


1962 Australian Drivers' Championship, Points system
Championship points were awarded on a 12-7-5-3-2-1 basis for the six best placed Australian license holders. Each driver could count his/her results from the Australian Grand Prix plus the best four results from the remaining races. Ties in the award were determined by the relevant drivers placings in the Australian Grand Prix.


1962 Australian Formula Junior Championship
The 1962 Australian Formula Junior Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title  open to Formula Junior racing cars. The championship was contested over a single 30 lap, 60 km race, staged at the Catalina Park circuit at Katoomba in New South Wales, Australia on 28 October 1962. The title, which was the inaugural Australian Formula Junior Championship, was won by Frank Matich, driving an Australian built Elfin.


1962 Australian GT Championship
The 1962 Australian GT Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title  for drivers of Appendix K GT cars. The title, which was the third Australian GT Championship, was contested over a single race held at the Lakeside circuit, in Queensland, Australia on 8 July 1962.


1962 Australian GT Championship
The championship was won by John French driving a Centaur Waggott.


1962 Australian Grand Prix
The 1962 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race for Formula Libre cars, held at the Caversham circuit in Western Australia, Australia on 18 November 1962. It was the twenty seventh Australian Grand Prix and the sixth and final race in the 1962 Australian Drivers' Championship. The Grand Prix meeting was organised by the Western Australian Sporting Car Club Inc.


1962 Australian Grand Prix
Held at the former United States Navy air base in still remote Western Australia, the race had just ten starters, seven of which had made the long journey across the Nullarbor Plain from the eastern states, and three of which were local entries. It was the third of only four Australian Grands Prix to be contested in Western Australia with the next held in 1979.


1962 Australian Grand Prix
Bruce McLaren won his first Australian Grand Prix, beginning a new era for the race in which the results would be dominated by professional drivers and teams rather than the gentleman amateurs who had won most of the post-war AGP races. It also began an AGP rivalry between the two senior drivers from the region, McLaren and Jack Brabham who were already long-time rivals in Formula One racing.


1962 Australian Touring Car Championship
The 1962 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title for Appendix J Touring Cars. It was contested as a single race, staged at the Longford Circuit, in Tasmania, Australia, on 3 March 1962. The title, which was the third Australian Touring Car Championship, was won by Bob Jane, driving a Jaguar Mark 2 3.8.


1962 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race
Jaguars continued their domination of the championship in 1962. Four were entered for the event, though Ian Geoghegan was forced to withdraw his after breaking a rear axle during practice. This left the Jaguars of Bob Jane, defending champion Bill Pitt and Bill Burns to take the front row of the grid. Norm Beechey had been racing a Chevrolet Impala in other events in Australia but was unable to attend Longford.


1962 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race
Jane led away from the start with Pitt in pursuit. However, Pitt suffered an overdrive problem during the race which allowed Jane to take an easy win, while Burns completed the podium. West was running in fourth during the final lap, but a burned piston meant he had to limp to the finish. He was passed by Brigden, who then went straight ahead at the final corner with fading brakes. West retook fourth heading onto pit straight but Brigden was able to turn around and repass West in the final 400 metres. Ross Farmer finished sixth ahead of Bob Holden, Peter Manton, who had made contact with a lapped car and pitted to check for damage, and George Maguire, the last finisher.


1962 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race
The domination of the Jaguars was proven in the speeds taken from the flying-eighth: Jane was recorded at 134 mph while West and Brigden only managed 117 and 106 mph respectively.


1962 Australian Tourist Trophy
The 1962 Australian Tourist Trophy was a motor race staged at the Mallala circuit in South Australia on 28 December 1962. It was the sixth annual Australian Tourist Trophy race, and was recognized by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as the Australian championship for sports cars.


1962 Australian Tourist Trophy
The race was won by Bib Stillwell driving a Cooper Monaco.


1962 Austrian legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 18 November 1962. The result was a victory for the Austrian People's Party, which won 81 of the 165 seats. Voter turnout was 93.8%. Although the People's Party had come up only two seats short of an outright majority, Chancellor Alfons Gorbach (who had succeeded Julius Raab a year earlier) retained the grand coalition with the Socialists under Vice-Chancellor Bruno Pittermann.


1962 Avensa Fairchild F-27 accident
The 1962 Avensa Fairchild F-27 accident occurred on 25 February 1962 when a Fairchild F-27 twin-engined turboprop airliner registered YV-C-EVH of Avensa crashed into San Juan mountain on Venezuela's Margarita Island in the Caribbean Sea. All 20 passengers and three crew were killed.


1962 Avensa Fairchild F-27 accident, Accident
The F-27 was on a scheduled flight from Porlamar Airport to Cumaná Airport, when a few minutes after departure from Portamar, the aircraft impacted San Juan Mountain and was destroyed.


1962 Avensa Fairchild F-27 accident, Aircraft
The aircraft, a Fairchild F-27 twin-engined turboprop airliner had been built in the United States in 1958 and delivered new to Avensa on 18 September 1958.


1962 BC Lions season
The 1962 BC Lions finished the season in fourth place in the Western Conference with a 7–9 record and failed to make the playoffs.


1962 BC Lions season
Dave Skrien's first full season as head coach saw drastic improvement from the one win team in 1961. Joe Kapp lead the CFL in passing yards (3279), completions (197) and TD passes (17). Bruising fullback Nub Beamer had a terrific season rushing for 1161 yards and duo threat tailback Willie Fleming had 925 yards rushing and 525 yards receiving.


1962 BC Lions season
Linebacker Tom Brown was the lone Lion on the CFL All-star team.


1962 BC Lions season
The Lions changed their helmets to include the now classic mountain lion claw logo.


1962 BRDC International Trophy
The 14th BRDC International Trophy was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 12 May 1962 at the Silverstone Circuit, England. The race was run over 52 laps of the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit, and was won by British driver Graham Hill in a BRM P57.


1962 BYU Cougars football team
The 1962 BYU Cougars football team represented Brigham Young University in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. In their second season under head coach Hal Mitchell, the Cougars compiled a 4–6 record (2–2 against conference opponents), tied for second place in the WAC, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 197 to 170.


1962 BYU Cougars football team
The team's statistical leaders included Eldon Fortie with 814 passing yards, 1,149 rushing yards, 1,963 yards of total offense, and 86 points scored, Bruce Smith with 230 receiving yards, and Gene Frantz with nine interceptions.


1962 Bahamian general election
General elections were held in the Bahamas on 26 November 1962, the first under universal suffrage. Whilst the Progressive Liberal Party won the most votes, the United Bahamian Party won the most seats, largely as a result of gerrymandering.


1962 Ball State Cardinals football team
The 1962 Ball State Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented Ball State College (later renamed Ball State University) in the Indiana Collegiate Conference (ICC) during the 1962 NCAA College Division football season. In its first season under head coach Ray Louthen, the team compiled a 4–3–1 record (2–3–1 against ICC opponents) and finished in sixth place out of seven teams in the ICC.


1962 Ballon d'Or
The 1962 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Josef Masopust.


1962 Baltimore Colts season
The 1962 Baltimore Colts season was the tenth for the team in the National Football League. They finished the  1962 season with a record of 7 wins and 7 losses, in fourth place in the Western Conference, six games behind the Green Bay Packers.


1962 Baltimore Colts season
The Colts lost twice each to Green Bay, Detroit, and Chicago.


1962 Baltimore Colts season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1962 Baltimore Orioles season
The 1962 Baltimore Orioles season involved the Orioles finishing 7th in the American League with a record of 77 wins and 85 losses.


1962 Baltimore Orioles 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


1962 Baltimore Orioles 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


1962 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1962 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1962 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1962 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1962 followed a new system for even-number years. Since 1956 the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) and Veterans Committee had alternated in their duties, but the BBWAA, voting by mail to select from recent major league players, had elected no one for 1958 and no one for 1960. Now there would be a second, "runoff" election in case of no winner. At the same time, the Veterans Committee resumed meeting annually to consider executives, managers, umpires, and earlier major league players.


1962 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
The provision for a runoff was not necessary for this election, as the writers elected two new candidates on their first ballot, Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson. The Veterans Committee selected Bill McKechnie and Edd Roush, both of whom were still alive to be interviewed and invited to the induction ceremonies. A formal induction ceremony was held in Cooperstown, New York, on July 23, 1962, with Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick presiding.


1962 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
The BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1932 or later, but not after 1956. All 10-year members of the BBWAA were eligible to vote.


1962 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Voters were instructed to cast their votes for up to 10 candidates; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall. A total of 78 players received votes; 160 ballots were cast, with 120 votes required for election. A total of 1,090 individual votes were cast, an average of 6.81 per ballot—the first election to average fewer than 8 votes per ballot, and a record low which would stand until 1987 (6.61 votes per ballot).


1962 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Eligible for the final time were: Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Burleigh Grimes, Hack Wilson, Kiki Cuyler, Red Faber, Jim Bottomley, Lefty Gomez, Waite Hoyt, Heinie Manush, Goose Goslin, Lefty O'Doul, Tony Lazzeri, Chick Hafey, Freddie Lindstrom, Earle Combs, Jimmie Dykes, Jimmie Wilson, Earl Averill, Jesse Haines, Charlie Grimm, Firpo Marberry, Wes Ferrell, Freddie Fitzsimmons, Travis Jackson, George Kelly, Red Rolfe, Luke Sewell, Riggs Stephenson and Glenn Wright.


1962 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Many of the above candidates would lose eligibility before the 1964 election due to a rule change affecting the retirement qualifications of those voted on by the BBWAA. While the BBWAA had previously been able to consider those who had been retired between 5 and 30 seasons, after this election the BBWAA were to consider those who had been retired between 5 and 20 seasons. Among the candidates who were affected by this rule change and would not appear on the 1964 BBWAA ballot, the top two vote receivers (Sam Rice and Eppa Rixey) were elected by the Veterans Committee in 1963.


1962 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Candidates who were eligible for the first time are indicated with a dagger (†).


1962 Basque Pelota World Championships
The 1962 Basque Pelota World Championships were the 4th edition of the Basque Pelota World Championships organized by  the FIPV.


1962 Basque Pelota World Championships, Events
A total of 12 events were disputed, in 4 playing areas.


1962 Bathurst 100
The 1962 Craven Filter Bathurst 100 was a motor race staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia on 23 April 1962. The race was contested over 26 laps at a total distance of approximately 100 miles and it was Round 2 of the 1962 Australian Drivers' Championship.


1962 Bathurst 100
The race was won by Bib Stillwell driving a Cooper T53 Climax.


1962 Bathurst Six Hour Classic
The 1962 Bathurst Six Hour Classic was an endurance race for production touring cars and  production sports cars. The event was staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst, New South Wales, on 30 September 1962.


1962 Bathurst Six Hour Classic
There was no outright winner of the race, official results being declared only for the six divisions.


1962 Batman by-election
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Batman in Victoria (Australia) on 1 September 1962. It was triggered by the death of Labor MP Alan Bird.


1962 Batman by-election
The by-election was won by Labor candidate Sam Benson. The governing Liberal Party did not nominate a candidate, leaving the Liberal Forum, formed in opposition to Australian involvement in the Vietnam War and one of the earliest precursors to the Australia Party (itself a predecessor of the Australian Democrats), to take second place.


1962 Baylor Bears football team
The 1962 Baylor Bears football team represented Baylor University in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. In their fourth season under head coach John Bridgers, the Bears compiled a 4–6 record (3–4 against conference opponents), tied for fourth place in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 169 to 159. They played their home games at Baylor Stadium in Waco, Texas.


1962 Baylor Bears football team
The team's statistical leaders included Don Trull with 1,627 passing yards, Tom Davies with 230 rushing yards, Ronnie Goodwin with 414 receiving yards, and Trull, Goodwin, and Larry Elkins each with 24 points scored. Robert Black was the team captain.


1962 Baylor Bears football team, After the season
The 1963 NFL Draft was held on December 3, 1962. The following Bears were selected.


1962 Belgian Grand Prix
The 1962 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Spa-Francorchamps on 17 June 1962. It was race 3 of 9 in both the 1962 World Championship of Drivers and the 1962 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. This race was notable for being the first Grand Prix win for Jim Clark, and the first of four consecutive victories at Spa for the Scotsman (despite thoroughly disliking the circuit) and Team Lotus. It was also the first win for the famous Lotus 25, and the beginning of the famous 6-year-long rivalry between Clark and Graham Hill. This race was held the same day as the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final in Santiago, Chile, but that event took place later in the day from this Grand Prix.


1962 Belgian Grand Prix
Ricardo Rodríguez became the youngest driver to score championship points (20 years, 123 days), a record which stood for 38 years before Jenson Button, aged 20 years, 67 days, broke it at the 2000 Brazilian Grand Prix. Trevor Taylor and Willy Mairesse were fighting for 2nd place until the 2 cars touched, crashed into a ditch and Mairesse's car landed upside down and caught fire. Both drivers were thrown out of their cars, but were unhurt.


1962 Bermondsey Borough election
Elections to Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey were held in 1962. These were the last elections before the borough became part of the London Borough of Southwark in 1965.


1962 Bermondsey Borough election
The borough had 13 wards which returned between 3 and 5 members. Of the 13 wards 9 of the wards had all candidates elected unopposed. Labour won all the seats and the Conservatives, the only opposition, only stood in 4 wards.


1962 Big Ten Conference football season
The 1962 Big Ten Conference football season was the 67th season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference and was a part of the 1962 NCAA University Division football season.


1962 Big Ten Conference football season
The 1962 Wisconsin Badgers football team, under head coach Milt Bruhn, compiled an 8–2 record, won the Big Ten championship, led the conference in scoring offense (32.2 points per game), and was ranked No. 2 in the final AP Poll. After losing only one game in the regular season, the Badgers lost to USC in the 1963 Rose Bowl. Quarterback Ron Vander Kelen led the Big Ten with 1,582 passing yards and 1,839 total yards and won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the conference's most valuable player. End Pat Richter led the conference with 694 receiving yards and was a consensus first-team All-American.


1962 Big Ten Conference football season
The 1962 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, under head coach Murray Warmath, compiled a 6–2–1 record, led the conference in scoring defense (6.8 points allowed per game), finished in second place in the Big Ten, and was ranked No. 10 in the final AP Poll. Tackle Bobby Bell was a consensus first-team All-American, won the Outland Trophy as college football's best interior lineman, and finished third in the voting for the 1962 Heisman Trophy.


1962 Big Ten Conference football season
The 1962 Northwestern Wildcats football team, under head coach Ara Parseghian, compiled a 7–2 record and finished in third place in the conference. The Wildcats were ranked No. 1 in the AP Poll before losing consecutive games late in the season. They remained ranked No. 16 in the final Coaches' Poll. Quarterback Tom Myers totaled 1,537 passing yards, and center Jack Cvercko was a consensus first-team All-American.


1962 Big Ten Conference football season
The conference's other statistical leaders included Michigan State fullback George Saimes with 642 rushing yards and Wisconsin's Lou Holland with 72 points scored.


1962 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics
KeyAP final = Team's rank in the final AP Poll of the 1962 seasonAP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1962 seasonPPG = Average of points scored per gamePAG = Average of points allowed per gameMVP = Most valuable player as voted by players on each team as part of the voting process to determine the winner of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy; trophy winner in bold


1962 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Preseason
There were no changes in the conference's head football coaches between the 1961 and 1962 seasons.


1962 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games
On January 1, 1963, USC (ranked No. 1) defeated Wisconsin (ranked No. 2), 42–37, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. This was the first No. 1 versus No. 2 match-up to occur in a bowl game. Ron Vander Kelen, the Wisconsin quarterback and Pete Beathard, the USC quarterback, were both named the Rose Bowl Player of the Game. Down 42–14 in the fourth quarter, Vander Kelen put together a number of drives to score 23 unanswered points and put the Badgers in position to win the game.


1962 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Post-season developments
There were no changes in the conference's head football coaches between the 1962 and 1963 seasons.


1962 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders
The Big Ten's individual statistical leaders for the 1962 season include the following:


1962 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Big Ten honors
The following players were picked by the Associated Press (AP) and/or the United Press International (UPI) as first-team players on the 1962 All-Big Ten Conference football team.


1962 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-American honors
At the end of the 1962 season, Big Ten players secured four of the 11 consensus first-team picks for the 1962 College Football All-America Team. The Big Ten's consensus All-Americans were:


1962 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-American honors
Other Big Ten players who were named first-team All-Americans by at least one selector were:


1962 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, Other awards
Bobby Bell of Minnesota won the Outland Trophy as the best interior lineman in college football. He also finished third in the voting of the Heisman Trophy.


1962 Big Ten Conference football season, 1963 NFL Draft
The following Big Ten players were among the first 100 picks in the 1963 NFL Draft:


1962 Bihar Legislative Assembly election
This is a list of the results of the 1962 general election to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar, a state in India, including a list of successful candidates. After the elections, the Congress emerged as the largest party, and Pandit Binodanand Jha was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Bihar. Satyendra Narayan Sinha was designated as his second-in-command with the educational portfolio.


1962 Birthday Honours
The Queen's Birthday Honours 1962 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. The appointments were made "on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty's Birthday", and were published in supplements to the London Gazette of 25 May 1962.


1962 Birthday 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.


1962 Birthday 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.


1962 Birthday 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.


1962 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The 1962 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 2 June 1962.


1962 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1962 Blackpool North by-election
The by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Blackpool North, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, was held on 13 March 1962. This was the last parliamentary by-election in England to be held on a day other than Thursday.


1962 Bluebonnet Bowl
The 1962 Bluebonnet Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 22, 1962 at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas. The game pitted the Missouri Tigers and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.


1962 Bluebonnet Bowl, Background
After a 1-1 start (with a tie to Minnesota that dropped them from #10 to unranked), the Tigers won six straight games, rising to #6 in the rankings before a matchup with Oklahoma, the eventual Big Eight Conference champion. A 13-0 loss dropped them out permanently, with a tie to rival Kansas ending their season, though it was their sixth straight winning season. Missouri was invited to their third bowl game in four seasons. Georgia Tech won their first two games to rise to #5 in the polls, before a 10-7 loss to LSU at home dropped them out. The Yellow Jackets went 5-1-1, with a 7-6 win over #1 ranked Alabama being a highlight win. The Yellow Jackets were invited to their third bowl game in four seasons.


1962 Bluebonnet Bowl, Game summary
In a game where Missouri did not complete a single pass, it was halfback Bill Tobin who led the Tigers on the rushing attack with 117 yards (while the rest of the Tigers had 141 yards), with Tobin scoring the go-ahead touchdown from 77 yards out with 5:54 to go in the third quarter. Georgia Tech had 13 first downs to Missouri's 10 and 68 passing yard to Missouri's 0, though they were outrushed 258 to 169. Both teams had four turnovers (Georgia Tech had four passes intercepted while Missouri had two passes intercepted and two fumbles).


1962 Bluebonnet Bowl, Aftermath
Neither team reached the Bluebonnet Bowl ever again. Both teams reached bowl games twice in the remainder of the decade.


1962 Bolivian Primera División
The 1962 Bolivian Primera División, the first division of Bolivian football (soccer), was played by 8 teams. The champion was Chaco Petrolero.


1962 Bolivian legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bolivia on 4 June 1962. The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) received 85% of the vote, and retained its large majority in both houses of Congress.


1962 Boston College Eagles football team
The 1962 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College as an independent during the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. The team compiled an 8–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 250 to 123.


1962 Boston College Eagles football team
In January 1962, Jim Miller was signed to a three-year contract as the team's head coach. Miller had led the Detroit Titans football team to an 18–10 record from 1959 to 1961. The Eagles opened their 1962 season with a 27–0 victory over Miller's old team.


1962 Boston College Eagles football team
The team's defense gave up only 236.2 yards of total offense per game, a figure that ranks fourth best in school history. The defense also recorded a school record 26 interceptions (45 total turnovers) in only 10 games.


1962 Boston College Eagles football team
The Eagles' sole losses were to Syracuse (0–12) and Navy (6–26). Navy's sophomore quarterback Roger Staubach threw two touchdown passes against Boston College. In the team's October 27 victory over Houston, the defense set a single-game record by allowing the Cougars to gain only 72 yards of total offense.


1962 Boston College Eagles football team
The team played its home games at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.


1962 Boston College Eagles football team, Individual statistics and awards
Quarterback Jack Concannon completed  97 of 181 passes for 1,450 passing yards, 15 touchdowns, and six interceptions. Concannon's 15 touchdown passes tied for the most among NCAA major college players.


1962 Boston College Eagles football team, Individual statistics and awards
End Art Graham was the team captain and led the team with 823 receiving yards and 42 points scored. His 823 receiving yards set a Boston College, single-season record that stood for Graham also 21 years. Graham also received the Thomas F. Scanlan Memorial Trophy as the senior player outstanding in scholarship, leadership, and athletic ability.


1962 Boston College Eagles football team, Individual statistics and awards
The team's other statistical leaders included fullback Harry Crump with 641 rushing yards and Jim McGowan with seven interceptions and 182 interception return yards. McGowan's 182 return yards remains a Boston College, single-season record. McGowan also set the school's single-game record with 136 interception return yards (on two returns for touchdowns) against Texas Tech on November 10, 1962.


1962 Boston College Eagles football team, Individual statistics and awards
Two Eagles (Harry Crump and Art Graham) were named to the 1962 All-East football team selected based on voting conducted by the Eastern College Athletic Conference. Three Eagles (Crump, Graham, and guard Lou Cioci) were also named to the 1962 All-New England football team; quarterback Jack Concannon and end Dave O'Brien were named to the second team.


1962 Boston Patriots season
The 1962 Boston Patriots season was the franchise's third season in the American Football League. The Patriots ended with a record of nine wins and four losses and one tie, second in the AFL's Eastern Division.


1962 Boston Patriots season
This was the Patriots' third and final season at Boston University Field, with the home opener at Harvard Stadium; they moved to Fenway Park in 1963 and played there for six seasons, through 1968.


1962 Boston Patriots season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1962 Boston Patriots season, Roster
All of the following players appeared in at least one game for the 1962 Boston Patriots.


1962 Boston Red Sox season
The 1962 Boston Red Sox season was the 62nd season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished eighth in the American League (AL) with a record of 76 wins and 84 losses, 19 games behind the AL pennant winner and eventual World Series champion New York Yankees.


1962 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season
Bill Monbouquette and Earl Wilson each threw no-hitters for the Red Sox. Monbouquette threw his no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox, while Wilson no-hit the Los Angeles Angels.


1962 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season
On September 3, Don Gile hit a home run in the last at-bat of his career.


1962 Boston Red Sox 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


1962 Boston Red Sox 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


1962 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1962 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1962 Boston Red Sox season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1962 Boston University Terriers football team
The 1962 Boston University Terriers football team was an American football team that represented Boston University as an independent during the 1962  NCAA University Division football season. In its sixth season under head coach Steve Sinko, the team compiled a 2–7 record and was outscored by a total of 156 to 94.


1962 Bowling Green Falcons football team
The 1962 Bowling Green Falcons football team was an American football team that represented Bowling Green State University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. In their eighth season under head coach Doyt Perry, the Falcons compiled a 7–1–1 record (5–0–1 against MAC opponents), won the MAC championship, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 204 to 91.


1962 Bowling Green Falcons football team
The team's statistical leaders included Tony Ruggiero with 393 passing yards, Don Lisbon with 481 rushing yards, and Jay Cunningham with 259 receiving yards.


1962 Brabantse Pijl
The 1962 Brabantse Pijl was the second edition of the Brabantse Pijl cycle race and was held on 5 April 1962. The race started and finished in  Brussels. The race was won by Ludo Janssens.


1962 Brazilian legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Brazil on 7 October 1962. Voter turnout was 79.6%.


1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
The 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games were held in Perth, Western Australia, from 22 November to 1 December 1962. Athletic events were held at Perry Lakes Stadium in the suburb of Floreat and swimming events at Beatty Park in North Perth. They were held after the 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games for wheelchair athletes.


1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Venues
Most venues other than the specifically constructed Beatty Park, and Perry Lakes Stadium, were existing facilities.


1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Participating teams
35 teams were represented at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. (Teams competing for the first time are shown in bold).


1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Medals by country
Note: The medals used at these Games were the first to have a neck chain. All previous games had their medals in presentation boxes.


1962 British Formula Three season
The 1962 British Formula Junior season was the 13th season of the British Formula Junior season. This was replaced by Formula Three specification cars in 1964. Peter Arundell took the B.A.R.C. Championship, while John Fenning took the B.R.C.S.S. Championship, as well as the B.R.S.C.C. John Davy British Championship.


1962 British Grand Prix
The 1962 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Aintree on 21 July 1962. It was race 5 of 9 in both the 1962 World Championship of Drivers and the 1962 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. This was the last race at Aintree. From 1963 onwards, the race would be held at Silverstone. Scotsman Jim Clark dominated the race, driving a Lotus 25. It was considered a power track, benefitting the light and powerful Lotus and Lola cars in particular. Ferrari were still sidelined due to the Italian metal workers' strike but managed to send one car for Phil Hill.


1962 British Grand Prix, Race
It was not a particularly exciting race, with Clark leading from start to finish and fairly large gaps between the cars. Out of the twentyone starters, six still had four-cylinder engines while the rest were multi-cylinder cars. These cars were in a sort of class of their own, with Jackie Lewis finishing best of the four-cylinder cars. John Surtees' Lola started and finished in second place, in spite of having lost second gear on the tenth lap. Dan Gurney was hopeful after winning in France and at the non-championship Solitude race in the preceding two weeks.


1962 British Grand Prix, Race
He began the race in third but had a slipping clutch and slid steadily down the field, ending in ninth position. His teammate Jo Bonnier had to retire with a broken transmission. Bruce McLaren (Cooper) passed Gurney after twelve laps and finished in third. Graham Hill pushed his BRM hard but had to settle for fourth, and was threatened by Jack Brabham in the closing stages. Brabham, however, had burns on his right foot since lap 40 and was in a lot of pain. He finished fifth, ahead of Tony Maggs' Cooper.


1962 British Grand Prix, Race
Brabham had hoped to start in his own car after his mechanics had worked days and nights, but at 3 am the morning before the race it was discovered that they had been supplied with the wrong exhaust system. The Brabham BT3 had to wait until Nürburgring two weeks later to make its first appearance.


1962 British Grand Prix, Race
Innes Ireland had perhaps the day's biggest disappointment. After having qualified his Climax-engined UDT/Laystall Lotus 24 on the first row, the gear shifter bent on his first lap, leaving him with only three gears. He had to pit immediately after start and finished last, after having spent several laps repairing the car. Trevor Taylor was anxious to have a good race after several recent collisions and started well. Soon, however, he had to pit with a loose carburettor, and only managed an eighth place in his Lotus 24. Phil Hill's Ferrari, meanwhile, was totally outclassed by the British cars in spite of its new six-speed gearbox. He never ran higher than tenth and had to retire with ignition troubles.


1962 British Lions tour to South Africa
In 1962 the British Lions rugby union team toured Southern and Eastern Africa. Overall the tourists played twenty-five matches, winning sixteen, losing five and drawing four.


1962 British Lions tour to South Africa
The Lions were unsuccessful in the test series against South Africa, losing by three matches to nil with one match drawn. The first three tests were close; the first match was drawn 3–3 and South Africa won the second 3–0 and the third 8–3. The fourth test resulted in a bigger win for South Africa, 34–14.


1962 British Lions tour to South Africa
The tour included games against Rhodesia (which would become Zimbabwe), South West Africa (future Namibia, then part of South Africa) and East Africa in Kenya; winning all three. The Lions won all their non-international matches except for those against Northern Transvaal and Eastern Transvaal.


1962 British Lions tour to South Africa
The touring party was captained by Arthur Smith. The manager was Brian Vaughan and the assistant manager was Harry McKibbin.


1962 British Saloon Car Championship
The 1962 BRSCC British Saloon Car Championship, was the fifth season of the championship. It began at Snetterton on 14 April and finished at Oulton Park on 1 September. Rhodesian driver John Love became the first non-British BSCC winner, driving a Morris Mini Cooper and an Austin Mini Cooper, making it the second consecutive championship win for a Mini driver.


1962 British Saloon Car Championship, Calendar & Winners
All races were held in the United Kingdom. Overall winners in bold.


1962 Brown Bears football team
The 1962 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University during the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. Brown finished last in the Ivy League.


1962 Brown Bears football team
In their fourth season under head coach John McLaughry, the Bears compiled a 1–6–2 record and were outscored 188 to 116. N.J. Spiezio was the team captain.


1962 Brown Bears football team
The Bears' 0–6–1 conference record placed eighth in the Ivy League standings. They were outscored by Ivy opponents 174 to 89.


1962 Brown Bears football team
Brown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.


1962 Brownlow Medal
The 1962 Brownlow Medal was the 35th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Alistair Lord of the Geelong Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-eight votes during the 1962 VFL season.


1962 Bruneian district council election
District council elections were held for the first time in Brunei 30 and 31 August 1962. A total of 55 seats on the four district councils were contested by the Brunei People's Party (55 candidates), the Brunei National Organisation (6), the Brunei United Party (1) and eighteen independents. The BPP won 54 seats (32 uncontested), whilst the sole independent elected later joined the party. Voter turnout was around 89%.


1962 Bruneian district council election
The 1959 constitution had created a 33-seat Legislative Council, of which 16 were to be indirectly elected by the district councils (nine were to be appointed by the Sultan, whilst eight were ex officio). As all district council seats were held by BPP members, it was expected that the party would take up all 16 seats. However, the government postponed the opening of the Council, and suspended it after the outbreak of the Brunei Revolt in December.


1962 Brussels Grand Prix
The 1962 Brussels Grand Prix was a motor race run to Formula One rules, held on 1 April 1962 at Heysel Park, Belgium. The race was run in three heats of 22 laps each and the results were aggregated. The race was won by Belgian driver Willy Mairesse in a Ferrari 156. The course was somewhat altered over previous years, as part of the area that had held spectators was now in commercial use. This was the debut for BRM's new V8 engine, as well as the first race for the upgraded Coventry-Climax V8 used in Jim Clark's Lotus.


1962 Brussels Grand Prix, Qualifying
1Vaccarella was 'bumped' to make way for the invited home-country drivers Pilette and Bianchi2car burnt out in practice accident3entry taken by Campbell-Jones


1962 Bucknell Bison football team
The 1962 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University during the 1962 NCAA College Division football season. Bucknell finished second in the University Division of the Middle Atlantic Conference.


1962 Bucknell Bison football team
In its fourth season under head coach Bob Odell, the team compiled a 6–3 record, 5–1 against division opponents. Richard Tyrrell was the team captain.


1962 Bucknell Bison football team
The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium on the university campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.


1962 Buffalo Bills season
The 1962 Buffalo Bills season was the team’s third season in the American Football League. The Bills finished the season with a 7–6–1 record, third place in the AFL East; it was the Bills' first-ever season finishing with a winning record.


1962 Buffalo Bills season
The Bills lost their first five games of the season, but finished the final nine games with only one loss (and one tie).


1962 Buffalo Bills season, Season summary
The Bills were a run-heavy offense in 1962; they led the league in rushing yards, with 2,480. The Bills ran the ball 58.8 percent of the time on offense. The Bills gained 5.0 yards per carry as a team, tied for the league lead.


1962 Buffalo Bills season, Season summary
Bills running back Cookie Gilchrist, who came to the Bills in 1962 from the Canadian Football League, led the AFL in rushing yards with 1,096 yards. and 13 rushing touchdowns. Running back Wray Carlton ran for 530 yards, but led the league with 5.6 yards per rushing attempt.


1962 Buffalo Bills season, Season summary
The Bills' defense got a major infusion of talent on defense, as rookies Tom Sestak, Mike Stratton, Ray Abruzzese, and Booker Edgerson won starting jobs.


1962 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason
During the offseason, the Bills removed former coach Buster Ramsey and hired Lou Saban to helm the team.


1962 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason
The Bills also picked up former Chargers quarterback Jack Kemp off the waiver wire. Kemp had a broken hand, and as such could not play until the twelfth game of the season, but he would prove to be the best Bills quarterback of the 1960s.


1962 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, AFL Draft
Defensive lineman Tom Sestak and linebacker Mike Stratton started for the Bills on defense as rookies; both would go on to be AFL All-Stars multiple times.


1962 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, AFL Draft, Ernie Davis
The Bills selected Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis from Syracuse with their first draft pick, and Davis may have very well signed with his hometown Bills (Davis grew up in nearby Elmira), since the National Football League team that drafted him, the Washington Redskins, was led by avowed racist George Preston Marshall and had only drafted Davis as a token black to avoid losing the Redskins' stadium lease; Davis refused to play for the Redskins. The Redskins traded Davis's rights to the Cleveland Browns, and Davis instead signed with the Browns.


1962 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, AFL Draft, Ernie Davis
Unfortunately for all parties, Davis was diagnosed with acute monocytic leukemia in the summer of 1962, and the Browns barred him from playing for the team (despite the cancer being in remission by the time the preseason began). The cancer later returned, and Davis died May 18, 1963, having never played a down of professional football.


1962 Buffalo Bills season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1962 Buffalo Bulls football team
The 1962 Buffalo Bulls football team represented the University at Buffalo in the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. The Bulls offense scored 159 points while the defense allowed 148 points.


1962 Buin Zahra earthquake
The 1962 Buin Zahra earthquake occurred on September 1 in the area of Buin Zahra, Qazvin Province, Iran. The shock had a Richter magnitude of 7.1 and resulted in 12,225 fatalities. Qazvin Province lies in an area of Iran that experiences large earthquakes. The 1962 event originated on one of many faults in the area, called the Ipak Fault. Believed to have been reactivated multiple times, the fault is extensive and could still pose a threat to locals. Iran's building codes, renowned for performing poorly during earthquakes, were recently evaluated by multiple world organizations. Most hope that the Iranian government will implement a better quality of design, highlighting that Iran is among the most seismically active countries in the world.


1962 Buin Zahra earthquake, Geology
Iran is a seismically active zone, lying between the converging Eurasian and Arabian Plates. Because it has both  strike-slip and reverse faults, earthquakes often proceed so that if one fault is overwhelmed by movement, the movement will branch off to another fault, creating a separate earthquake.


1962 Buin Zahra earthquake, Geology
Buin Zahra County lies within a zone of active thrust faults, complemented by folds, that extends south from the Alborz mountains. Despite the presence of faults, Qazvin Province does not regularly experience earthquakes. However, the space between earthquakes allows pressure to build up on faults, increasing the power – and magnitude – of the earthquakes.


1962 Buin Zahra earthquake, Geology
Specifically, the 1962 event originated on the Ipak Fault of northern Iran, along which it and aftershocks cut roughly 64 miles (103 km) of west-northwest trending surface faulting. A feature that extends for 64 miles (103 km) with its connected, smaller faults, the fault runs from the village of Ipak to Takhrijin. Iranian geologist Manuel Berberian's research indicates that the Ipak Fault is at least as old as the Carboniferous period, and has probably been reactivated several times since its formation.


1962 Buin Zahra earthquake, Geology
On the fault's south side, Carboniferous material is visible; this debris is not evident on the north side, which suggests that the fault was acting as a "dividing fault" while the area around it underwent sedimentation. Berberian could find no trace of Upper Guadalopian or Julfian sediments north of the fault. Another possible reason for this anomaly could be erosion; uplift could have exposed the northern portion of the fault but not the south.


1962 Buin Zahra earthquake, Damage and casualties
12,225 fatalities resulted from the earthquake. An additional 2,776 people were injured, along with 21,310 houses either destroyed or too damaged to repair. 35 percent of domestic livestock was also killed, and several landslides and rock falls followed the rupture. 21,000 houses were destroyed, mainly because they were made up of mud and brick. Over 7,500 were buried in 31 individual villages, followed by reports from 60 additional villages. In these villages, however, 26,618 survived. One hospital in Tehran was "packed" with over 2,500 victims.


1962 Buin Zahra earthquake, Damage and casualties
Slight damage was experienced in Tehran, the nation's capital. Cities as far away as Tabriz, Esfahan and Yazd reported the tremor. Sandblows also formed along the rupture zone. The earthquake was also declared the largest rupture in the region since approximately 1630. Multiple reports came from the Rudak area of earthquake lights.


1962 Buin Zahra earthquake, Relief efforts
Rescue operators suggested that an aerial and on-land search should be initiated to help victims. Officials expressed worries that people had gone for over a week with no aid. Iranian wrestling star Gholamreza Takhti gathered blankets, money, and food for victims and transported them by trucks. Because government response was slow, students at the University of Tehran took matters into their own hands. After gathering supplies, the students organized an effort to dispatch medical students and interns to the site of the disaster.


1962 Buin Zahra earthquake, Relief efforts
Their teams were however blocked by Iranian National Guard members who had been commanded to kill any civilians who tried to help victims; writer Marcello di Cintio cites in Poets and Pahlevans: A Journey into the Heart of Iran that the "Shah was not about to let a crowd of students draw attention to his inept relief efforts".


1962 Buin Zahra earthquake, Future threats
Since roughly 90 percent of Iran lies within seismically active land, the threat from earthquakes is high. In 2002, an earthquake in Buin Zahra killed more than 250 people and left roughly 25,000 without homes.


1962 Buin Zahra earthquake, Future threats
In addition to its geological threat, Iran has poor earthquake engineering. In a 2004 report by ScienceDaily, it was listed as "the worst offender" globally for poor earthquake engineering. Professor Roger Bilham of the University of Colorado at Boulder, a geophysicist who specializes in earthquake-related deformation and hazards, blames construction practices for the fact that since the start of the 20th century, 1 in 3,000 Iranians has died in an earthquake-related incident. Bilham adds, "Most of Iran needs rebuilding.


1962 Buin Zahra earthquake, Future threats
If the population of Iran had a choice between spending oil revenues on munitions or houses that won't kill them, I suspect they would choose a safe home. It's all a matter of earthquake education." A Common Country Assessment by The United Nations for Iran has similar results, stating that, "While adequate building regulations exist for large cities, it is generally believed that they are not rigorously adhered to... most of those who have suffered in recent major earthquakes have lived in small towns and villages. Earthquake-proof construction is very rare in those areas and adequate building regulations are not yet in place".


1962 Bulgarian Cup Final
The 1962 Bulgarian Cup Final was the 22nd final of the Bulgarian Cup (in this period the tournament was named Cup of the Soviet Army), and was contested between Botev Plovdiv and Dunav Ruse on 12 August 1962 at Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia. Botev won the final 3–0.


1962 Bulgarian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 25 February 1962. Voters were presented with a single list from the Fatherland Front, dominated by the Bulgarian Communist Party. As the Fatherland Front was the only organisation to contest the election and all candidate lists had to be approved by the Front, voters only had the option of voting for or against the Front list. Only 1,668 of the 5,462,892 valid votes were cast against the Front list. Voter turnout was reportedly 99.7%.


1962 Buller by-election
The Buller by-election 1962 was a by-election held in the Buller electorate in the West Coast during the term of the 33rd New Zealand Parliament, on 7 July 1962.


1962 Buller by-election
The by-election was caused by the death of incumbent MP Jerry Skinner of the Labour Party (and a likely future leader) on 26 April 1962. The by-election was won by Bill Rowling, also of the Labour Party (and a future leader). The Social Credit candidate P. H. Matthews was also the leader of the party.


1962 Buller by-election, Date
The initial date of the by-election announced by the Prime Minister Keith Holyoake was 21 July, contrary to expectations it would be early to mid June, by extending the time allowed for the issue of the writ in order to coincide with another by-election in Timaru. The Leader of the Opposition Walter Nash criticized the decision saying it was a "nullification of democracy" and motivated to place the election after the budget to allow the government to spend its money electioneering.


1962 Buller by-election, Date
The Social Credit Party were also critical of the decision claiming National were frightened following its decreased majorities at the recent by-elections in Hurunui and Waitaki. The decision to delay was later threatened on legal grounds by the Labour Party who challenged it in the Supreme Court. The government backed down and changed the date to 7 July.


1962 Buller by-election, Candidates, Labour
There were several names put forward as potential Labour nominees for the Labour Party candidacy:


1962 Buller by-election, Candidates, Labour
Rowling was chosen after winning a ballot of local party members at a meeting of party members in Murchison.


1962 Buller by-election, Candidates, National
King was chosen as the National candidate after winning a ballot of members at a members in Motueka.


1962 Buller by-election, Candidates, Social Credit
The Social Credit Party chose P. H. Matthews as their candidate. Matthews was leader of the party and had contested Buller in both 1957 and 1960.


1962 Buller by-election, Campaign
The New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation announced there would be no pre-election addresses broadcast in the by-election but would have full coverage of the polling results.