Though downplayed by the NFL as inferior, the AFL signed half of the NFL's first-round draft choices in 1960, including All-American Billy Cannon, perennial All-Star Johnny Robinson, and Hall of Famer Ron Mix.

He then moved to the ranks of professional football, where he headed the NFL's Los Angeles Rams ( 1955 – 1959 ), the American Football League's Los Angeles and San Diego Chargers ( 1960 – 1969 ), and the NFL's Chargers ( 1971 ), and Houston Oilers ( 1973 – 1974 ), amassing a career record of 123 – 104 – 7 in the National Football League and the American Football League.

He returned to professional football as a head coach with the Los Angeles Rams, leading the team to the NFL's championship game, and then moved to the American Football League ( 1960 – 1969 ), where he coached the Los Angeles and San Diego Chargers to five Western Division titles and one league championship in the first six years of the league's existence.

The NFL's Dallas Cowboys called the Cotton Bowl home for 11 years, from the team's formation in 1960 until 1971, when the Cowboys moved to Texas Stadium.

A member of the " Ole Miss " Athletic Hall of Fame, he was a linebacker of the University of Mississippi who came to the American Football League's New York Titans in the 1960 college draft and helped form the backbone of a New York Jets defense that reached the playoffs in 1968 and 1969, and in 1968 captured the AFL Championship and the World Championship, over the NFL's Baltimore Colts.

They did use the 1960 – 63 away jerseys for the NFL's 75th season of 1994 for one game under mandatory league rules, but they used silver helmets.

His professional career began with the AFL's first training camp in 1960, and was capped the day the New York Jets stunned the NFL's Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III on January 12, 1969.

In 1960, the AFL's first year, its teams signed half of the NFL's first-round draft choices.

Fletcher Joseph " Joe " Perry ( January 22, 1927 – April 25, 2011 ) was a professional American football fullback for the San Francisco 49ers from 1948 to 1950 ( while the 49ers were a member of the NFL's rival league, the AAFC ), then 1950 to 1960 when the 49ers were absorbed into the NFL, the Baltimore Colts from 1961 to 1962, and finally back to the 49ers for his final year in football, 1963.

* Morten Andersen ( b. 1960 ), former NFL player and NFL's all time leading scorer.

Waters injured his left knee in the last game of the 1960 season.

Mazeroski, whose homer beat the Yankees in the final series game, will receive the Babe Ruth Award as the outstanding player in the 1960 world series.

During the same season, the Cowboys also wore their 1960 – 63 road jersey with a silver helmet for one game as part of a league-wide " throwback " policy.

The two teams met in the first regular season game the Cowboys ever played in 1960 ( a 35 – 28 loss to the Steelers ), the first-ever regular season victory for the expansion Cowboys in 1961, and would later meet in three Super Bowls, all of them closely contested events.

The first game ever played between the Giants and Cowboys was a 31 – 31 tie on December 4, 1960.

The Eagles won the first game in this rivalry 27 – 25 on September 30, 1960.

The Pirates have had many ups and downs during their long history, most famously winning the 1960 World Series on a game winning homerun by Bill Mazeroski, the only time that Game 7 of the World Series has ever ended with a home run.

Since the AFL Championship Game originally was scheduled for Monday, December 26 and the NFL Championship Game for Sunday, January 1 ( the reverse of the situation following the 1960 season ), it was suggested the " new " championship game be played Sunday, January 8.

Under Head Coach Dick Vermeil, Philadelphia advanced to their first ever Super Bowl in team history, and had not played in a league championship game since their 1960 NFL championship.

Williams ' final home run did not take place during the final game of the 1960 season, but rather in the Red Sox's last home game that year.

The chess game between " Kronsteen " and " McAdams " in the early part of the James Bond movie From Russia With Love is based on a game in that opening played between Spassky and David Bronstein in 1960 in which Spassky (" Kronsteen ") was victorious.

Attendance outpaced the first week of the American Football League in 1960, averaging just under 43, 000 a game, but the box office numbers proved to be the beginning of the WFL's undoing.

* March 12, 1960, the Pistons hosted a playoff game against the Minneapolis Lakers at Grosse Pointe High School when no other facility was available.

* 1960 ( Yankees – Pirates )-Game 7 ( with Bill Mazeroski's series-clinching walk-off home run ) was found intact on kinescope in December 2009 in the wine cellar of Pirates ' part-owner Bing Crosby, who had the game recorded at his own expense.

William Ralph " Will " Wright ( born January 20, 1960, in Atlanta, Georgia ) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, now part of Electronic Arts.

In 2007, their version of " Bei Mir Bist Du Schön " was included in the game BioShock, a first-person shooter that takes place in an alternate history 1960, and later in 2008, their song " Civilization " ( with Danny Kaye ) was included in the Atomic Age-inspired video game Fallout 3.

In September 2010, a kinescope of game 7 of the 1960 World Series was found in the wine cellar of Bing Crosby.

It was inaugurated in 1960, with a maximum sitting capacity of 120, 000 people, but now its maximum capacity is only 80, 000 seats, and only 75, 000 tickets are sold each game for safety reasons.

A perpetual check saved a draw for Mikhail Tal against Bobby Fischer in this 1960 game, played in the 14th Chess Olympiad, while Tal was the World Champion.

His last game was the final game of the 1960 – 61 season on 29 April 1961.

February's volume was 1 per cent above January's for the first pickup since last October, although it's still 1.5 per cent off from February 1960.

The establishment, by the Holy Father, of a permanent Secretariat for Christian Unity in 1960 was the most dramatic mark of this concern.

But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

What made these new location figures particularly impressive was the fact that although 1960 was a year of mild business recession throughout the nation, Rhode Island scored marked progress in new industry, new plants, and new jobs.

During the period from 1 July 1960 through 31 January 1961, the Medical Museum was required to move to Temporary Building `` S '' on the Mall from Chase Hall.

Replacing the discontinued Medical Technicians Bulletin, publication of which was suspended with the November-December 1959 issue, a section called `` Technical Notes '' was inaugurated on a bimonthly basis beginning with the April 1960 issue.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

In January, 1960, the first issue of The Carleton Miscellany, a quarterly literary magazine, was published by the College.

Reflecting the largest percentage of high-end sets such as consoles and combinations since 1953, dollar value of home entertainment electronics in 1960 was about $1.9 billion, compared to $1.7 billion in 1959.

The impact rate on 1958 Alpha for 153 events was Af for particles of mass greater than Af ( Dubin, 1960 ) ; ;

and for the next nine days, the impact rate was less than Af ( Nazarova, 1960 ).

In June, 1960, an early draft of the questionnaire, along with a cover letter, was mailed to fourteen companies in the state of Washington.

The revised draft was mailed in July, 1960, to 100 firms throughout the United States.

The first test mailing ( to 14 companies ) was made in June, 1960.

The second test mailing ( to 100 companies ) was made in July, 1960.

The final mailing of the questionnaire was made late in August, 1960, to 4,900 firms consisting of 3,450 from the AIA list and 1,450 from the TR list.

Even though in civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 the provision for the Attorney General to act was eliminated, should we nevertheless support such a clause??

The final step was a vote for a $230,000 bond issue for the construction of a sewage system by the 1959 town meeting, later confirmed by a two-thirds vote at a special town meeting June 21, 1960.

Another veteran telephone operator was Edith Fleming Blackmer, who had been in the office forty years at the time of her death in 1960.

It was September 20, 1960, in a lavishly decorated apartment littered with liquor bottles.

The big, 22-year-old shortstop, the 1960 American league `` rookie-of-the-year '', flew here late this afternoon from Baltimore, signed his contract for an estimated $15,000 and was a spectator at tonight's 5-to-3 loss to Kansas City -- the winless Birds' sixth setback in a row.

As a result, it is not easy to find a stock priced as the Morton issue was priced ( at roughly 10 times 1960 earnings, to yield a little over 5 per cent on the 64-cent anticipated dividend ).

However, compared with March 1960 new car sales of 4,441, this March was off 23 per cent.