1960 CFL season

The 1960 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the seventh season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the third Canadian Football League season.

1960 CFL season
Regular season
DurationJune – October, 1960
Playoffs
Start dateNovember 2, 1960
East ChampionsOttawa Rough Riders1960-11-20
West ChampionsEdmonton Eskimos1960-11-19
48th Grey Cup
DateNovember 26, 1960
SiteEmpire Stadium, Vancouver
ChampionsOttawa Rough Riders
CFL seasons

CFL News in 1960

The IRFU changed its name to become the Eastern Football Conference.

The CFL allowed unlimited blocking on interception returns.

The Calgary Stampeders moved into McMahon Stadium on Monday, August 15, after it took only 103 days to be built.

On September 14, four of the six directors of the Montreal Alouettes abruptly resigned their positions. The resignations of Lucien Beauregard, Morgan N. Johnston, David C. McConnell and W. Heard Wert left only owner-president Ted Workman and general manager-coach Perry Moss on the board.

Rosters were reduced from 40 players to 34 on September 15.

Ottawa's Ron Stewart rushed for 287 yards on 16 carries in a game in Montreal against the Alouettes on Monday, October 10. He rushed for four touchdowns, one in each quarter, on runs of 39, 51, 51 and 37 yards. He broke the single-game record of 217 yards held previously by Hamilton's Gerry McDougall.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers honored their 11-year veteran guard with "Buddy Tinsley Night" at half-time during their Thursday, October 13, 1960, game versus the BC Lions. The Winnipeg crowd of 16,773 was delighted when Tinsley lined up at fullback and took a hand-off from quarterback Kenny Ploen over from the BC one-yard line for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter.

At league meetings during Grey Cup week, Western teams dropped their insistence on sharing in the lucrative television rights payments received by the Big Four (Eastern) teams as a condition of accepting an interlocking schedule. It was agreed to begin a partially interlocking schedule in 1961, with travel costs to be offset by an across-the-board surcharge of 25 cents on the price of every ticket sold (each team, every seat, every game).

1960 Preseason

The CFL played an unbalanced schedule of Exhibition games.

Four teams (Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and Hamilton) played their annual split-squad scrimmages at the conclusion of their preliminary training camps.

25 players received skin burns during an Edmonton–Calgary game played at Mewata Stadium in Calgary on July 20. Two Eskimos, Roger Nelson and Jim Shipka, were treated in a Calgary hospital. Two Stampeders, Doug Brown and Ernest Warlick, filed damage claims with the City of Calgary. The lime used for field markings initially was suspected as being the cause, although laboratory tests later determined it was fully hydrated and should not have been the culprit. Fertilizer also was suggested as a possible cause of the skin burns.

On July 28, the Saskatchewan Roughriders played the London Lords of the Senior Ontario Rugby Football Union in London, Ontario, and beat their hosts 38–0.

On July 29, the BC Lions played the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Part of the local appeal was the presence on three former University of Iowa stars, Kenny Ploen and Ray Jauch of the Blue Bombers, and Willie Fleming of the BC Lions.

After playing (and losing to) the NFL Chicago Cardinals in 1959, the Toronto Argonauts hosted the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers at CNE Stadium on August 3 and lost 43–16. Both teams used 12 players, with a handful of NFL rules (blocking, punt returns) blended into the Canadian game.

Toronto also played host to an NFL exhibition game between the Chicago Bears and the New York Giants, at Varsity Stadium on Monday, August 15. Top ticket price was $10, which was the most ever charged for a non-Grey Cup game in Toronto. George Halas of the Bears, who also served as chairman of the NFL's expansion committee, admitted that in 1961 the NFL would have 14 teams, an awkward number, and that 16 teams would be more convenient for scheduling. It was suggested that this game was a trial balloon for a possible expansion team in Toronto. Chicago defeated the Giants by a 16–7 score, but the paid attendance was only 5,401, handing the promoters a $30,000 loss and effectively ending any chance of an NFL team north of the border.

Day Date Visitor Home Location Attendance
Fri 15 July Montreal 0 Edmonton 38 Edmonton 9,000
Tue 19 July Ottawa Red 14 Ottawa White 7 Ottawa –
Wed 20 July Montreal 29 BC 29 Vancouver 24,392
Wed 20 July Edmonton 4 Calgary 17 Calgary –
Thu 21 July Toronto Blue 14 Toronto White 27 Aurora, Ontario –
Thu 21 July Winnipeg Blue 19 Winnipeg Gold 27 Winnipeg 17,000
Tue 26 July BC 49 Montreal 7 Montreal 19,999
Tue 26 July Saskatchewan 6 Ottawa 20 Ottawa –
Wed 27 July Calgary 30 Toronto 51 Toronto 12,692
Wed 27 July Hamilton Black 20 Hamilton Gold 20 Hamilton –
Thu 28 July Saskatchewan 38 London Lords (ORFU) 0 London, Ontario –
Fri 29 July BC 7 Winnipeg 13 Cedar Rapids, Iowa 12,583
Mon 1 August Winnipeg 16 Montreal 26 Montreal 19,395
Tue 2 August Saskatchewan 14 Hamilton 17 Hamilton 7,000
Tue 2 August Ottawa 26 BC 27 Vancouver 18,156
Wed 3 August Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) 43 Toronto 16 Toronto 23,570
Thu 4 August Ottawa 14 Winnipeg 18 Winnipeg –
Mon 8 August Edmonton 14 Montreal 28 Montreal 19,570
Wed 10 August Edmonton 29 Ottawa 24 Ottawa 8,350
Wed 10 August Hamilton 7 Toronto 14 Toronto 10,282

1960 Regular Season

Coaching Changes

Calgary

  • Fri 19 August – Otis Douglas resigns as head coach of the Calgary Stampeders, after the club started the season with a tie and two losses. General Manager Jim Finks acts as co-ordinator of coaches for Calgary's August 22 game versus the BC Lions (a loss).
  • Tue 23 August – Steve Owen is appointed head coach for the remainder of the 1960 season.

General Manager Changes

Edmonton

  • Sat 10 September – Keith Rolfe resigns as General Manager of the Edmonton Eskimos, to take a position with an oil company in Calgary. Joe Ryan, formerly with the Toronto Argonauts, is named as his successor.

Regular season standings
BC Lions vs. Winnipeg Blue Bombers, August 11

Final regular season standings

Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points

Western Interprovincial Football Union
TeamGPWLTPFPAPts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers16142045323928
Edmonton Eskimos16106031822520
Calgary Stampeders1668237440414
BC Lions1659229635612
Saskatchewan Roughriders1621222054226
Eastern Football Conference
TeamGPWLTPFPAPts
Toronto Argonauts14104037026520
Ottawa Rough Riders1495040028318
Montreal Alouettes1459034045810
Hamilton Tiger-Cats1441002733778
  • Bold text means that they have clinched the playoffs.
  • Winnipeg and Toronto have first round byes.

Grey Cup playoffs

Note: All dates in 1960

Conference Semi-Finals
Western Semi-Finals
Calgary Stampeders vs Edmonton Eskimos
Game DateAwayHome
1 November 2Calgary Stampeders 7Edmonton Eskimos 30
2 November 5 Edmonton Eskimos 40 Calgary Stampeders 21
Edmonton won the total-point series by 70–28
Eastern Semi-Finals
Montreal Alouettes @ Ottawa Rough Riders
DateAwayHome
November 5Montreal Alouettes 14Ottawa Rough Riders 30

Conference Finals
Western Finals
Winnipeg Blue Bombers vs Edmonton Eskimos
Game DateAwayHome
1 November 12Winnipeg Blue Bombers 22Edmonton Eskimos 16
2 November 14 Edmonton Eskimos 10 Winnipeg Blue Bombers 5
3 November 19 Edmonton Eskimos 4 Winnipeg Blue Bombers 2
Edmonton wins the best of three series 2–1
Eastern Finals
Toronto Argonauts vs Ottawa Rough Riders
Game DateAwayHome
1 November 12Toronto Argonauts 21Ottawa Rough Riders 33
2 November 20 Ottawa Rough Riders 21 Toronto Argonauts 20
Ottawa won total-point series 54–41

Playoff bracket
  Semifinals     Finals     48th Grey Cup
                           
  East     E1 Toronto Argonauts 41
(21+20)		  
  E2 Ottawa Rough Riders 30     E2 Ottawa Rough Riders 54
(33+21)		    
  E3 Montreal Alouettes 14         E2 Ottawa Rough Riders 16
      W2 Edmonton Eskimos 6
  West     W1 Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1
(22,5,2)		    
  W2 Edmonton Eskimos 70
(30+40)		     W2 Edmonton Eskimos 2
(16,10,4)		  
  W3 Calgary Stampeders 28
(7+21)		  

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Grey Cup Championship
November 26

48th Annual Grey Cup Game: Empire Stadium – Vancouver, British Columbia

Western ChampionEastern Champion
Edmonton Eskimos 6Ottawa Rough Riders 16
The Ottawa Rough Riders are the 1960 Grey Cup Champions
  • Ron Stewart (RB), Ottawa Rough Riders – Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player.

CFL Leaders
  • CFL Passing Leaders
  • CFL Rushing Leaders
  • CFL Receiving Leaders [2]

1960 Eastern All-Stars

Offence

Defence

1960 Western All-Stars

Offence

Defence

1960 CFL Awards

1960 Miss Grey Cup
  • Miss Edmonton Eskimos Mary-Jo Powell was named Miss Grey Cup 1960
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References
  1. "1960".
  2. "CFLapedia".
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