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The position names in the winglines were retained for a while but eventually replaced by the American nomenclature, although it was not until the 1960s, that Canadian rules required seven players on the offensive line, unless they were playing short handed. Before that, only five were required on plays in which no forward pass was thrown, so it ...
1950s; 1960s; 1970s; ... Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. 0–9. 1950 in North American football (1 C) 1951 in North ...
1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. 0–9. 1960 in North American ...
The 1960 NFL season was the 41st regular season of the National Football League. Before the season, on January 26, 33-year-old Pete Rozelle , the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams , was elected NFL commissioner as a compromise choice on the twenty-third ballot.
He was a running back for the Giants from 1952 through the 1960 injury, after which he announced his retirement. In 1962, he mounted a comeback with the Giants before announcing his permanent retirement following the 1964 season. In 1977, a decade after Bednarik's 1967 induction, Gifford was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. [7]
This is a list of National Football League (NFL) players who had outstanding performances throughout the 1960s and have been compiled together into this fantasy group. The team was selected by voters of the Pro Football Hall of Fame at the end of the decade.
When the rival American Football League (AFL) began in 1960, it signed a 5-year television contract with ABC. This became the first ever cooperative television plan for professional football, through which the proceeds of the contract were divided equally among member clubs. ABC and the AFL also introduced moving, on-field cameras (as opposed ...
It was the first time that National Football League games were televised live, coast-to-coast, in prime time, for the entire season. This predated Monday Night Football on ABC by 17 years. [4] Several of the games in 1953 and 1954 originated in New York , Pittsburgh , or Washington .