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1961 FA Charity Shield

The 1961 LPGA Championship was the seventh LPGA Championship, held October 12–15 at Stardust Country Club in Las Vegas, Nevada.Defending champion Mickey Wright won the third of her four LPGA Championships, nine strokes ahead of runner-up Louise Suggs, the 1957 winner. It was Wright's third major title of the year and the seventh of her thirteen career majors.

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Browns

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Phil Hill

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Race 43 of 52 in the 1961 NASCAR Grand National Series season

Willie Davis

Charlie Bivins 30 yard run

Second leg

Harris

did not qualify

ITA

CUST

Gainesville, FL

Buffalo Bills

Willie Wood

First Round

Tottenham Hotspur

WR1 SchoolName

1961 British Grand Prix

Kilkenny

Houston

Jim Taylor 1-yard run

1961 Intercontinental Cup
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Dublin

F-84 Thunderstreak incident

Oregon State Beavers

The 45th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Tuesday, May 30, 1961. For the first time since 1949, the Indianapolis 500 was not recognized on the World Championship calendar. The race celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first Indy 500 in 1911.Eddie Sachs and A. J. Foyt were battling for 1st-2nd in the latter stages of the race.

Dening

1961 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship

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1961 Cleveland Indians season

Giants

Ferrari

Boyd Dowler

1961 Houston Oilers season

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the Cold War

Green Bay Packers

Mississippi State
#2 Alabama

The 1961 Chicago Bears season was their 42nd regular season completed in the National Football League. The club posted an 8–6 record under George Halas, which was an improvement over the 5–6–1 record of the previous season.

Mary Carter Reitano

Structural failure

Dyson

IV Bolivarian Games

Roberson

Stardust Country Club

The 1961 German Grand Prix was the 23rd time the German Grand Prix (or Grosser Preis von Deutschland) motor race was held. The race also held the honorary designation of the 21st European Grand Prix. It was run to Formula One regulations as race 6 of 8 in both the 1961 World Championship of Drivers and the 1961 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers It was held on 6 August 1961 over 15 laps of the giant 14.2 mile Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit for a race distance of almost 213 miles. The race also celebrated the 100th race since the establishment of the World Championship in 1950.The race was won by British driver Stirling Moss, driving a Lotus 18/21 for privateer outfit the Rob Walker Racing Team. Moss started from the second row of the grid and lead every lap of the race. It was the first German Grand Prix victory for a rear-engined car since Bernd Rosemeyer's Auto Union Type C took victory in 1936. Moss finished just over 20 seconds ahead of Ferrari 156 drivers Wolfgang von Trips and Phil Hill, breaking a four-race consecutive run of Ferrari victories. The result pushed Moss into third place in the championship points race, becoming the only driver outside of Ferrari's trio of von Trips, Hill and Richie Ginther still in contention to become the 1961 World Champion with two races left.Jack Brabham's Cooper took full advantage of the new Coventry-Climax V-8 in qualifying. Brabham qualified second, and shot to the lead by the first corner. However, Brabham crashed before the end of the first lap due to a sticking throttle. It was the last home country appearance for points leader von Trips before his death at the Italian Grand Prix five weeks later. His second-place finish saw Ferrari secure the constructors' championship. The remaining championship points scorers were all from British racing teams. Scottish driver Jim Clark (Lotus 21) was fourth for Team Lotus; former motorcycle World Champion John Surtees (Cooper T53) was fifth for Yeoman Credit Racing and young New Zealander Bruce McLaren was sixth in his factory-run Cooper T58.Of the race's 26 starters, 17 finished the race with 16 of them classified finishers. Bernard Collomb (Cooper T53) did not complete the 75% race distance in order to be classified as a finisher.

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Packers 24–0

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Packers seasons
Bart Starr

Los Andes

The 1961 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 13th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix season. The season consisted of eleven Grand Prix races in five classes: 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 125cc and Sidecars 500cc. It began on 23 April, with Spanish Grand Prix and ended with Argentine Grand Prix on 15 October.

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Colts seasons

Packers
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Cornell University

Paul Hornung 22-yard field goal

Rex White

The 1961 Green Bay Packers season was their 42nd season in the National Football League. The club posted an 11–3 record under coach Vince Lombardi, earning them a first-place finish in the Western Conference. The Packers ended the season by defeating the New York Giants 37–0 in the NFL Championship Game, the first title game ever played in Green Bay. This was the Packers 7th NFL league championship.The 1961 season was the first in which the Packers wore their trademark capital "G" logo on their helmets.

Tulane Stadium

* 28 Willie Galimore

LG Starter

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Leicester City

Walt Novick and Joe Morlan

Robberds

* 50 Mike Pyle C
* 63 Bob Wetoska T

Colts 7–3

Alabama Crimson Tide

The 1961 Bandy World Championship was contested between four men's bandy playing nations. The championship was played in Norway from 22–26 February 1961. The Soviet Union became champions.This was the second world championship in bandy. Norway, having boycotted the first championship in 1957, made its championship début on home turf but lost all its games and came in last of the four participating nations.

Hugh McElhenny 81 yard punt return

* 58 Dan Currie
* 71 Bill Forester
* 66 Ray Nitschke ILB

#5 Alabama

The 1961 Boston Red Sox season was the 61st season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished sixth in the American League (AL) with a record of 76 wins and 86 losses, 33 games behind the AL and World Series champion New York Yankees.

George Halas

The 1961 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 10 September 1961 at Monza. It was race 7 of 8 in both the 1961 World Championship of Drivers and the 1961 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.The race was marked by one of the most terrible accidents in the history of Formula One, when on the end of lap 2 at the approach to the Parabolica the German driver Wolfgang von Trips lost control of his Ferrari and crashed into a stand full of spectators, killing 15 and himself. The race was not stopped, allegedly to assist the rescue work for the injured. This was also the last Formula One race ever to be held on the full 10 km (6.213 mi) Monza circuit, with the 2 bankings and the straight between the bankings included.The race was won by von Trips' American team mate Phil Hill, who – since the German was the only one who could challenge him – thus won the World Championship with one race to go.

Tie 14–14

Forrest Gregg
Ray Nitschke

XXXIIo Gran Premio d'Italia

1961 LPGA Championship

Denny Stadium

Lotus-Climax

Bevis Hawton

#3 Alabama

USA

LDT Starter

Lions 14–7

The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 Crash was an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, on January 24, 1961. A B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3-4 megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. The pilot in command ordered the crew to eject at 9,000 feet (2,700 m). Five men successfully ejected or bailed out of the aircraft and landed safely. Another ejected but did not survive the landing, and two died in the crash.

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Athens, Georgia

The 1961 Buffalo Bills season was the team's second year in the American Football League. The Bills played in the Eastern division, winning six games, losing eight, and missing the postseason.The Bills didn't have a winning record at any point in the season; they played their final five games of the season on the road.

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1961 Australian Championships – Women's Singles
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The 1961 Census of India was the 10th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871.The population of India was counted as 438,936,918 people.

Fiorentina

Colts 14–7

The 1961 Australian Tourist Trophy was a motor race open to Sports Cars and invited GT Cars, staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia on 1 October 1961. It was the fifth in a sequence of annual Australian Tourist Trophy races, and was recognized by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as the Australian championship for sports cars. The race was won by Bib Stillwell driving a Cooper Monaco.

Lions 6–0

1961 Dutch Grand Prix

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1961 Grand National

Georgia

Illinois

The 1961 Houston Oilers season was their second. For the second consecutive season, the Oilers scored a triumph in the AFL championship game over the San Diego Chargers (12–2), the Western Division champions.The Oilers started slowly in 1961, with a 1–3–1 record. After a tie on October 13 with the Boston Patriots, head coach Lou Rymkus was fired by owner Bud Adams.

The 1961 Individual Speedway World Championship.

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The 1961 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1961 college football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 67th overall and 28th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bear Bryant, in his fourth year, and played their home games at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Legion Field in Birmingham and Ladd Stadium in Mobile, Alabama.

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Italy

Jan Lehane

The 1961 F-84 Thunderstreak incident, occurring on 14 September 1961, was an incident during the Cold War, in which two Republic F-84F Thunderstreak fighter-bombers of JaBoG 32 of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) crossed into East German airspace because of a navigational error, before landing at Berlin Tegel Airport.

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Detroit Lions

Ebbern
Coghlan

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* 87 Willie Davis DE
* 74 Henry Jordan DT
* 83 Bill Quinlan

1961 German Grand Prix

Colts

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Carl Yastrzemski's Rookie Season

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The 1961 Grand National was the 115th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 25 March 1961.The winner was 28/1 shot Nicolaus Silver who became the first grey winner for 90 years. He was ridden by jockey Bobby Beasley and trained by Fred Rimell. In second place was last year's winner Merryman II. O'Malley Point finished third, whilst Scottish Flight was fourth. The favourite, Jonjo, finished 7th.

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FB Starter

Bills seasons

Alex Hawkins 1-yard run

RT Backup

Charles Vaughan

Oregon State

Sugar Bowl champion

Margaret Smith

MIN 7–0

Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

Rangers

Indiana Hoosiers

Auburn

The 1961 LPGA Championship was the seventh LPGA Championship, held October 12–15 at Stardust Country Club in Las Vegas, Nevada.Defending champion Mickey Wright won the third of her four LPGA Championships, nine strokes ahead of runner-up Louise Suggs, the 1957 winner. It was Wright's third major title of the year and the seventh of her thirteen career majors. It was her tenth tour victory of the 1961 season.Stardust Country Club opened earlier in the year and hosted the LPGA Championship for six consecutive years, through 1966. After several ownership and name changes, it became Las Vegas National Golf Club in 1998.The purse was substantially increased in 1961 to $15,000 with a winner's share of $2,500, up from $8,500 and $1,500 in 1960.

Birmingham, Alabama

The 1961 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race, held on 15 July 1961 at the Aintree Circuit, near Liverpool. It was race 5 of 8 in both the 1961 World Championship of Drivers and the 1961 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.Following a wet weekend, with torrential rain affecting both qualifying and the race start, the Grand Prix was ultimately dominated by Scuderia Ferrari, with their drivers taking all three podium positions.

Kansas City Athletics

Because another league was in competition for the class of 1961 college stars, the American Football League draft for 1961 graduates was held in 1960, with a six-round telephone draft on November 21 and 22, that saw the Denver Broncos select New Mexico State's Bob Gaiters as the overall first draft pick. The draft was completed on December 5 and 6th, with rounds seven through thirty.

Bob Skoronski

#1 Alabama

Athens, GA

Smith

The 1961 Baltimore Colts season was the ninth season for the team in the National Football League. The Baltimore Colts finished the National Football League's 1961 season with a record of 8 wins and 6 losses and finished tied for third in the Western Conference with the Chicago Bears. There weren't any tiebreakers until 1967.

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1961 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

Bears 21–20

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Lions seasons

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1961 Iowa Hawkeyes football team

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RDE Starter

Johnny Morris 41-yard pass from Bill Wade

Big Ten Conference

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Legion Field

Lions 14–10

Bill Herring and Walt Novick

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First leg

LT Starter

Seventeenth Street Stadium

Vanderbilt

The 1961 Big Ten Conference football season was the 66th season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference and was a part of the 1961 college football season.The 1961 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, under head coach Woody Hayes, compiled an 8–0–1, won the Big Ten championship, and was recognized as the national champion by the Football Writers Association of America. Fullback Bob Ferguson was a consensus first-team All-American and won the Maxwell Award and the UPI and Sporting News College Football Player of the Year awards.The 1961 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, under head coach Murray Warmath, compiled an 8–2, was ranked No. 6 in the final AP Poll, and defeated UCLA in the 1962 Rose Bowl. Quarterback Sandy Stephens was a consensus first-team All-American and won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football award as the Big Ten's most valuable player.Ron Miller of Wisconsin received the Sammy Baugh Trophy as the nation's top collegiate passer.

Robyn Ebbern
Kaye Dening

Tommy Heath and Bill Werle

Carter Reitano
Lorraine Coghlan

The 1961 F-84 Thunderstreak incident, occurring on 14 September 1961, was an incident during the Cold War, in which two Republic F-84F Thunderstreak fighter-bombers of JaBoG 32 of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) crossed into East German airspace because of a navigational error, before landing at Berlin Tegel Airport. The two planes successfully evaded a large number of Soviet fighter planes by finding cover in a heavy layer of clouds, but also by the actions of an airman at the United States Air Force air route traffic control center at Berlin Tempelhof Airport who ordered the planes on to Berlin rather than forcing them to turn around and face the pursuing fighter planes. The event came at a historically difficult time in relations between the two Germanies. Only a month before, the Berlin Wall had been built, which completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. It also came three days before the West German federal election, held on 17 September 1961.

Good to Firm

The 1961 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1961 Big Ten Conference football season. This was Jerry Burns' first season as head coach.

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Mobile, Alabama

Won NFL Championship Game 37-0

Denver Broncos

The 45th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Tuesday, May 30, 1961. For the first time since 1949, the Indianapolis 500 was not recognized on the World Championship calendar. The race celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first Indy 500 in 1911.Eddie Sachs and A. J. Foyt were battling for 1st-2nd in the latter stages of the race. On Foyt's final scheduled pit stop, his crew was unable to properly engage the fuel mechanism, and his car did not take on a full load of fuel. Foyt returned to the track, and was pulling away from Sachs. Foyt's car was running faster due to the light fuel load, but his crew signaled him that he would be unable to make it to the finish without another pit stop. The crew borrowed a fuel feed mechanism from Len Sutton's team, and signaled Foyt to the pits.Foyt gave up the lead on lap 184 for a splash-and-go. That handed the lead to Sachs, who was now leading by 25 seconds. With three laps to go, the warning tread showed on Sachs' rear tire and Sachs decided to play it safe. Rather than nurse the car around, he pitted to replace the worn tire on lap 197. Foyt took the lead with three laps to go and won his first (of four) Indy 500 victories by a margin of 8.28 seconds.A notable story included the appearance of two-time defending Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham from Australia, who drove the race in a low-slung, British built Cooper powered by a Coventry Climax engine. Dubbed the "British Invasion," it would be the first notable post-war appearance of a rear-engined car, and within five years the rear-engined revolution would take over the Speedway. The venerable front-engined roadsters with their larger and more powerful engines were much faster down the long straights, but the superior handling of Brabham's Cooper in the corners kept his car competitive. Brabham qualified 17th at 145.144 mp/h and drove the car to a respectable 9th-place finish, completing all 200 laps. He had planned to run conservatively and make only two pit stops, but tire wear and fuel consumption forced him to make a 3rd stop, negating his strategy. Had he driven more aggressively with three pit stops, he might have been much closer to the lead serial.Five months after the race in October 1961, the front straight of the track was paved over with asphalt, and thus the entire track was now paved in asphalt and only a single yard of bricks at the start/finish line was left exposed from the original 1909 brick surface. The remainder of the original 3,200,000 bricks now lie underneath the asphalt surface. This meant that the 1961 race was the last 500 in which cars raced on the original bricks other than those at the start/finish line.

Fuzzy Thurston

1961 Dallas Cowboys season

The 1961 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race, held on 15 July 1961 at the Aintree Circuit, near Liverpool. It was race 5 of 8 in both the 1961 World Championship of Drivers and the 1961 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.Following a wet weekend, with torrential rain affecting both qualifying and the race start, the Grand Prix was ultimately dominated by Scuderia Ferrari, with their drivers taking all three podium positions. The race was won by German Wolfgang von Trips, who had led for much of the race after starting from fourth place on the grid. This was von Trips's second but also his final Grand Prix victory as two races later he was killed in an accident during the 1961 Italian Grand Prix. Pole position winner Phil Hill drove to second place, on his way to winning the World Drivers' Championship at the end of the season, and third place was taken by Hill's American compatriot Richie Ginther.The 1961 British Grand Prix is also notable as being the first occasion on which a four-wheel drive car, and the last at which a front engined car was entered for a World Championship race. These two accomplishments were achieved by the same vehicle: the experimental Ferguson P99-Climax run by the Rob Walker Racing Team. Although the car was disqualified for receiving assistance on the track, in the hands of Stirling Moss – who took over the car from first driver Jack Fairman after his own Lotus's brakes failed – it showed some promise. Unfortunately for Moss, the 1961 British Grand Prix also marked the last occasion on which the local hero would contest a Grand Prix race on home soil, as his career was ended by an accident during a non-Championship race prior to the 1962 season.

The 1961 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 12th season with the National Football League.

The 1961 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 10 September 1961 at Monza.

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Byrne

Jesse Whittenton

1961 Georgia Bulldogs football team
Georgia Bulldogs

Thiele

The 1961 American Football League season was the second regular season of the American Football League. After having spent its inaugural season in Los Angeles, the Chargers moved to San Diego, California, before the 1961 season, becoming the San Diego Chargers.The season ended when the Houston Oilers defeated the San Diego Chargers in the AFL Championship game.

Richmond Spiders

XXIII Grosser Preis von Deutschland

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Tied 7–7

DB1 Starter

Rae

1961 Boston Red Sox season

The 1961 Kansas City Athletics season was a season in American baseball. In their seventh season in Kansas City, the 61st overall for the franchise, the A's finished with a record of 61–100, tying the expansion Washington Senators for ninth place, last in the newly expanded 10-team American League, 47½ games behind the World Champion New York Yankees.

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Tegart

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Dave Hanner

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Bears 24–10

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NASCAR Grand National Series Season

Rice Stadium

Mickey Wright

American League

Colts 7–0
Colts 20–7

Accident

1961 European Cup Winners' Cup Final

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* 84 Gary Knafelc
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Bloomington, IN

North Carolina

West Germany

The 1961 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the 31st staging of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1928.Kilkenny entered the championship as the defending champions.On 3 September 1961 Kilkenny won the championship following a 3-13 to 0-15 defeat of Tipperary in the All-Ireland final. This was their second All-Ireland title in-a-row and their sixth title overall.

Johnny Morris 8-yard pass from Ed Brown

Southeastern Conference

1961 Chicago Bears season
CHI 31–21

Ockerby

1961 FA Cup Final

Dutch

Stroke play – 72 holes

Nashville, Tennessee

CHI 21–14

The 1961 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1961 college football season. The Bulldogs completed the season with a 3–7 record.

The 1961 Buddy Shuman 250 was a NASCAR Grand National Series (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) event that was held on September 8, 1961, at Hickory Speedway in Hickory, North Carolina.

XIV RAC British Grand Prix

Kick Returner

Florida Field

1961 American Football League draft

Val Wicks

The 1961 FA Cup Final took place on 6 May 1961 at Wembley with Tottenham Hotspur beating Leicester City 2–0. Tottenham had already won the League and were chasing the League and Cup Double. Spurs became the first club to secure the Double since Aston Villa achieved it in 1897.

Noel Horgan

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Iowa Hawkeyes

Henry Jordan

Houston, Texas

Toohey

SEC

Sturm

The 1961 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1961 college football season. The season was Ray Graves' second as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team, and the Gators posted their only losing season in Graves' ten years as their coach. Graves' 1961 Florida Gators finished with a 4–5–1 overall record and a 3–3 record in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), placing sixth among the twelve SEC teams.

F.A. XI

T-3rd NFL Western

CHI 28–21

San Diego Chargers

1961 Indianapolis 500

The 1961 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was a football match contested between Fiorentina of Italy and Rangers of Scotland. It was the final of the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup the first UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final. It was the only time that the final was played over two legs. The first leg was played at Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow and the second leg at the Stadio Comunale in Florence.

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Wally Lemm and

Houston Cougars

Bears 3–0

Bill Vanderwater

WR1 Starter

Jerry

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Front Office

1961 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

Semi-final

Rams

Birmingham, AL

Al Hinton

Colts 20–14

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Cox

Bears 17–10

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The 1961 Detroit Tigers won 101 games but finished in second place, eight games behind the Yankees. The team's 1961 record tied the 1934 Tigers team record of 101 wins, and only twice in team history have the Tigers won more games: 1968 (103 wins) and 1984 (104 wins).

Paul Hornung 19-yard field goal

Detroit Tigers

#9 Arkansas

LOLB Starter

Bears
Tie 10–10
Mike Ditka 19-yard pass from Bill Wade

The 1961 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1961 season in Camogie. The championship was won by Dublin who defeated Tipperary by a ten-point margin in the final.

The IV Bolivarian Games (Spanish: Juegos Bolivarianos) were a multi-sport event held between December 3–16, 1961, at the Estadio Municipal in Barranquilla, Colombia. The Games were organized by the Bolivarian Sports Organization (ODEBO). Bolivia was the only eligible country not to send a delegation.The Games were officially opened by Colombian president Alberto Lleras Camargo. Torch lighter was hurdler Jaime Aparicio. The athlete's oath was sworn by local athlete Rafael Cotes.A detailed history of the early editions of the Bolivarian Games between 1938 and 1989 was published in a book written (in Spanish) by José Gamarra Zorrilla, former president of the Bolivian Olympic Committee, and first president (1976-1982) of ODESUR. Gold medal winners from Ecuador were published by the Comité Olímpico Ecuatoriano.

1961 Auburn Tigers football team

The 1961 Dallas Cowboys season was their second in the National Football League. The team finished with 4 wins, 9 losses, and 1 tie, placing them 6th in the Eastern Conference.

The 1961 FA Charity Shield was the 39th FA Charity Shield. The match was contested on 12 August 1961 between double winners Tottenham Hotspur and a Football Association (F.A.) representative eleven. Tottenham won the match 3–2.In the 1960–61 season, Tottenham had become the first club since Aston Villa in 1897 to complete the Double, that is, to win the FA Cup and Division One in the same season. The Charity Shield, which was first contested in 1908, is conventionally held between the previous season's league champions and the FA Cup winners. Thus Tottenham's double victory in 1960–1961 presented a new problem for the FA in organising the 1961 Charity Shield. By way of resolution, Tottenham competed against a representative side who played under the banner of the FA. This team was, in practice, the contemporary England national team, without the Tottenham players who might usually have played. Tottenham started the match poorly when Johnny Haynes scored the opening goal after ten minutes. Tottenham equalised five minutes before half time through Bobby Smith, and Les Allen scored two second half goals for Spurs to put them 3–1 ahead. Johnny Byrne scored the second goal for the F.A., resulting in a 3–2 victory for Tottenham. The 1961 Charity Shield was the last time, to date, that the match has featured a team that was not a club side. The 1971 Double winning Arsenal team were unable to compete, so FA Cup runners-up Liverpool played against Division Two champions Leicester City. In the 1986 Charity Shield, following Liverpool's Double-winning 1985–1986 season, league runners-up Everton were chosen as opponents. This practice has been followed in all subsequent years where a team has won the Double.

Richie Ginther

ESP

* 9 Billy Wade

Nick Pietrosante 15-yard run

1961-62 Untied States network television schedule (Saturday morning)

1961 French Grand Prix

McKee

Ladd Stadium

Center

Hamrin

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Lions 3–0

Dudley Field

New Zealand

Jim Taylor

Tulane

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Location in the United States

Colts 14–0

NC State Wolfpack

José Luis Praddaude

Cleveland Indians

MIN 14–7
Joe Perry 21 -yard pass from Johnny Unitas
* 47 Johnny Morris
Lenny Moore 68-yard pass from Johnny Unitas

Max McGee
Jim Martin 16-yard field goal

Tipperary

Chargers

Torrential rain, drying later

Florida Gators

Packers 14–0

* Offensive Backs – Red Cochran
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* Offensive Line – Bill Austin

Big Ten

Roger LeClerc 14-yard field goal
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The 1961 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 2 July 1961 at Reims. It was race 4 of 8 in both the 1961 World Championship of Drivers and the 1961 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.By winning the race, Giancarlo Baghetti became only the third driver to win his first World Championship race, the other two being Nino Farina, who won the first World Championship race (the 1950 British Grand Prix) and Johnnie Parsons, who won the 1950 Indianapolis 500 (the Indianapolis 500 was part of the World Championship from 1950 to 1960), though both Farina and Parsons had competed at future World Championship races before the creation of the championship, while this was Baghetti's first start at a major Grand Prix. This was Baghetti's only World Championship race win. He would never finish in the top 3 again.

Herman Franks and Freddie Fitzsimmons

Richmond

The 1961 Intercontinental Cup was a football match between Uruguayan club Peñarol, winners of the 1961 Copa Libertadores, and Portuguese club Benfica, winners of the 1960–61 European Cup. Peñarol won the Intercontinental Cup for the first time.A play-off was needed due to the rules at the time that awarded 2 points for each victory and both teams having won one game each.

Dan Currie

1961 Giro d'Italia

A F-84 Thunderstreak of the German Air Force

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CHI

Bill Forester

The 1961 Detroit Lions season was the 32nd season in franchise history. Detroit won a second Playoff Bowl game against the Philadelphia Eagles that was played in the Orange Bowl, 38–10.

Elmer Yoter and Matt Sczesny

Hicks

Sanford Stadium

Second game

Wide receiver

Dallas Cowboys

1961 Australian Tourist Trophy

Gugeri

Angelo Coia 16 yard pass from Bill Wade

RB1 Starter

Champion

Permanent road course

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

The 1961 Green Bay Packers season was their 42nd season in the National Football League. The club posted an 11–3 record under coach Vince Lombardi, earning them a first-place finish in the Western Conference. The Packers ended the season by defeating the New York Giants 37–0 in the NFL Championship Game, the first title game ever played in Green Bay.

Carlos Nai Foino

Illinois Fighting Illini

Report 2

* 10 John Roach
* 15 Bart Starr

The 1961 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was a football match contested between Fiorentina of Italy and Rangers of Scotland. It was the final of the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup the first UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final. It was the only time that the final was played over two legs. The first leg was played at Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow and the second leg at the Stadio Comunale in Florence. It was Rangers first European final and in doing so became the first British team to reach the final of a European football competition. It was Fiorentina's second European final having previously reached the 1957 European Cup final.Fiorentina won the first leg 2-0 at Ibrox. Fiorentina won the second leg 2-1 in Florence to win the final and the tournament 4–1 on aggregate.

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Chicago Bears

Individual Speedway World Championship

Jerry Reichow 24 yard pass from Fran Tarkenton

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Shipton

The 1961 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 22 May 1961 at Zandvoort. It was race 2 of 8 in both the 1961 World Championship of Drivers and the 1961 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.Taking place one week after the Monaco GP, there was not time for Innes Ireland to heal from his injury in the previous race, so he was replaced by Trevor Taylor. The front row was taken up by three Ferraris. Von Trips took the lead from the start and led every lap. Phil Hill was a solid second but was soon pressured by Jim Clark, who made a great start from the fourth row. The two would trade second place often with the Ferrari quicker on the straight and the Lotus faster in the corners. This continued until about 20 laps from the end when Clark's handling allowed the Ferrari to pull away. Fourth place was also a hard fought battle. Moss and Ginther, who made a terrible start, battled nose-to-tail until the very end with Moss passing Ginther on the final lap. The race was also historic as the first of seven races in which every car was classified as a finisher. In fact, in this race no driver even made a pit stop.

DET

Second Round

Donnie

* 33 Lew Carpenter
* 5 Paul Hornung
* 25 Tom Moore
* 22 Elijah Pitts
* 31 Jim Taylor

Packers 17–9

1961-62 Welsh Cup

Wet

* President – Dominic Olejniczak
* Director of Player Personnel – Dick Voris

Steve Myhra 32-yard field goal

Won NFL Playoff Bowl 38-10

Faro, Nahunta Township, Wayne County, north of Goldsboro, North Carolina

Browns seasons

The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 Crash was an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, on January 24, 1961. A B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3-4 megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. The pilot in command ordered the crew to eject at 9,000 feet (2,700 m). Five men successfully ejected or bailed out of the aircraft and landed safely. Another ejected but did not survive the landing, and two died in the crash. Information newly declassified in 2013 showed that one of the bombs came very close to detonating.

The 1961 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1961 college football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 67th overall and 28th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bear Bryant, in his fourth year, and played their home games at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Legion Field in Birmingham and Ladd Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. They finished season undefeated with eleven wins (11–0 overall, 7–0 in the SEC), with a victory over Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl and as consensus national champions. The 1961 national championship was the first of the six that Bear Bryant would win as head coach of the Crimson Tide.Alabama opened the season with a win over Georgia on the road in week one, and then defeated Tulane in their home game at Ladd Stadium in week two. After they won their second road game of the season at Vanderbilt, Alabama returned to Tuscaloosa where they defeated NC State in the first Denny Stadium game of the season. The next week, Alabama defeated Tennessee for the first time since the 1954 season in the first Legion Field game of the year.The Crimson Tide then defeated Houston in their final road game of the season and then returned home and defeated Mississippi State on homecoming in Tuscaloosa. The next week Alabama scored their most points in a game since the 1951 season when they defeated Richmond 66–0. They then closed the regular season with wins over Georgia Tech and Auburn in the Iron Bowl and captured the national championship as awarded by the major wire services. The Crimson Tide then closed the season with a victory over Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl.

Defensive Coaches

* 31 Joe Fortunato
* 61 Bill George

Auburn Tigers

Dainard

West German fighters landed safely

w/o

One of the Mk 39 nuclear weapons at Goldsboro, largely intact, with its parachute still attached.

Eagles

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1961 Belgian Grand Prix

Herb Adderley

United States

Head Coaches

The 1961 Houston Oilers season was their second. For the second consecutive season, the Oilers scored a triumph in the AFL championship game over the San Diego Chargers (12–2), the Western Division champions.The Oilers started slowly in 1961, with a 1–3–1 record. After a tie on October 13 with the Boston Patriots, head coach Lou Rymkus was fired by owner Bud Adams. Wally Lemm was hired, and the team went undefeated for the remainder of the season, including the championship game, a winning streak of ten games.The Oilers set the AFL record for points scored in 1961, with 513 (36.6 points per game). They also set an American Football League record with a +271 point differential, by allowing only 242 points. The 1961 Oilers are the only team in AFL or NFL history to score 45 points or more six times in a single season.

W 10–3 vs. Arkansas

Milan

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Peñarol

1961 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

Iowa City, IA

Arkansas Razorbacks

Jerry Reichow 30 yard pass from Fran Tarkenton

Boston Red Sox

Paul Hornung 9-yard field goal

The 1961 County Championship was the 62nd officially organised running of the County Championship. Hampshire won their first ever Championship title.

The 1961 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1961 college football season. It was the Tigers' 70th overall and 28th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan, in his 11th 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 and four losses (6–4 overall, 3–4 in the SEC).

TE1 Starter

running backs

1961 Green Bay Packers season

New Orleans

Houston Oilers

Bignotti-Bowes Racing Associates

1961 Detroit Lions season

The 1961 FA Charity Shield was the 39th FA Charity Shield. The match was contested on 12 August 1961 between double winners Tottenham Hotspur and a Football Association (F.A.) representative eleven. Tottenham won the match 3–2.In the 1960–61 season, Tottenham had become the first club since Aston Villa in 1897 to complete the Double, that is, to win the FA Cup and Division One in the same season.

Slattery

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Grant Field

New York Giants

John Kelly

Marie Burke

#4 Alabama

The 1961 Cleveland Indians season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fifth in the newly expanded 10-team American League with a record of 78–83, 30½ games behind the New York Yankees. Although the 1961 season ended up being a disappointment, the Indians had a brief flurry of pennant fever early in the 1961 season. After starting 12-13, the Indians started to streak, going 22-4 over their next 26 games to reach a record of 34-17 (were 38-20 after 58 games).

* 89 Mike Ditka

Paul Hornung 15-yard field goal

1961 Buddy Shuman 250

Willie Galimore 60 yard run

AP Poll released prior to game

Hall Hopman
McArthur

QB Starter

CHI 38–21

Packers 7–0

3Deep

The 1961 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1961 Big Ten Conference football season. They participated as members of the Big Ten Conference. The Hoosiers played their home games at Seventeenth Street Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The team was coached by Phil Dickens, in his fourth year as head coach of the Hoosiers.

1961 Florida Gators football team

Because another league was in competition for the class of 1961 college stars, the American Football League draft for 1961 graduates was held in 1960, with a six-round telephone draft on November 21 and 22, that saw the Denver Broncos select New Mexico State's Bob Gaiters as the overall first draft pick. The draft was completed on December 5 and 6th, with rounds seven through thirty. The San Diego Chargers were still the "Los Angeles Chargers" in this draft, as their relocation was not announced until late January 1961.

Whitely
L Turner

1961 F-84 Thunderstreak incident

Lesh

The 1961 Cleveland Indians season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fifth in the newly expanded 10-team American League with a record of 78–83, 30½ games behind the New York Yankees. Although the 1961 season ended up being a disappointment, the Indians had a brief flurry of pennant fever early in the 1961 season. After starting 12-13, the Indians started to streak, going 22-4 over their next 26 games to reach a record of 34-17 (were 38-20 after 58 games). However the Indians cooled off afterwards and were quickly knocked out of first place, as they went 44-66 the rest of the year. For the 2nd year in a row, the Indians had held first place in June, only to slump to a losing record. This would happen again in 1962 as well (47-34 start in early July).

W Ryan 0-12, M Keating 0-3.

Bears seasons

P Starter

Minor

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Carl Erich Steiner

Ross

F.I.M. Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

pink

1961 Intercontinental Cup play-off

* 86 Boyd Dowler
* 85 Max McGee

Yes
Packers 27–0

France

1961 Census of India

The IV Bolivarian Games (Spanish: Juegos Bolivarianos) were a multi-sport event held between December 3–16, 1961, at the Estadio Municipal in Barranquilla, Colombia. The Games were organized by the Bolivarian Sports Organization (ODEBO). Bolivia was the only eligible country not to send a delegation.The Games were officially opened by Colombian president Alberto Lleras Camargo. Torch lighter was hurdler Jaime Aparicio.

Cliff Hare Stadium

Buck

Hank Gremminger

Near Berlin, East Germany

Netherlands
Zandvoort original layout

Arkansas

Public road/Permanent racing facility

Nick Pietrosante 1-yard run

LDE Starter

Vilmos Hernádi

Bears 10–7

Tennessee

1961 Indiana Hoosiers football team

The 1961 Giro d'Italia was the 44th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. The Giro started in Turin, on 20 May, with a 115 km (71.5 mi) stage and concluded in Milan, on 11 June, with a 214 km (133.0 mi) leg. A total of 170 riders from 17 teams entered the 21-stage race, which was won by Italian Arnaldo Pambianco of the Fides team. The second and third places were taken by Frenchman Jacques Anquetil and Spaniard Antonio Suárez, respectively.

Auburn, AL

Roger LeClerc 17 yard field goal

* Defensive Line – Phil Bengtson
* Defensive Backs – Norb Hecker

Paterson

Boyd Dowler 13-yard pass from Bart Starr

Mary Bevis Hawton

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C Foley

José Sanfilippo

1961 Big Ten Conference football season

Paulson

* ← 1960
* AFL draft
* 1962 →

Willie Galimore 8 yard run

Third Round

Packers 37–0

Schacht

Paul Hornung

1961-62 SK Rapid Wien season

Location in Nevada

Paul Hornung 26-yard field goal

Jim Stroud, T

Oilers seasons

SpecialTeams

Jim Martin 13-yard field goal

Jerry Reichow 11 yard pass from Fran Tarkenton

Georgia Tech

Mike Ditka 2 yard pass from Bill Wade

PK Starter

The 1961 Big Ten Conference football season was the 66th season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference and was a part of the 1961 college football season.The 1961 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, under head coach Woody Hayes, compiled an 8–0–1, won the Big Ten championship, and was recognized as the national champion by the Football Writers Association of America.

Permanent racing facility

Punt Returner

Baltimore Colts

Paul Hornung 17-yard field goal

WR2 Starter

CHI 45–28
Rick Casares 5-yard run
CHI 38–28

NC State

Toyne

A camouflaged jet aircraft with a red ring around its nose intake, on display

Bill Quinlan

The 1961 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 22 May 1961 at Zandvoort. It was race 2 of 8 in both the 1961 World Championship of Drivers and the 1961 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.Taking place one week after the Monaco GP, there was not time for Innes Ireland to heal from his injury in the previous race, so he was replaced by Trevor Taylor. The front row was taken up by three Ferraris. Von Trips took the lead from the start and led every lap.

Lions 9–7

Belgium

Ron Kramer 13-yard pass from Bart Starr

Cornell

untelevised

left

Othmar Huber

Iowa Stadium

Lions 14–13

1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash

* 26 Herb Adderley CB
* 46 Hank Gremminger
* 47 Jesse Whittenton
* 24 Willie Wood SS/PR

IInd Bandy World Championship

Pro-Set

Cleveland Browns

FRA

1961 Detroit Tigers season

Atlanta, GA

Oregon State University

1961 Bandy World Championship

1961 Individual Speedway World Championship

The 1961 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 18 June 1961 at Spa-Francorchamps. It was race 3 of 8 in both the 1961 World Championship of Drivers and the 1961 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.The organizers of the race invited 25 entries, but were only going to pay starting money to 19: sixteen pre-selected cars plus the 3 fastest of the remaining 9. Three of the cars without starting money decided not to race after practicing.
Belgian

Quarterfinals

Jim Martin 44-yard field goal

1961 Baltimore Colts season

1961 Argentine Primera División

Oilers

George Wilson

Debug

FS Starter

Cornell Big Red

Jim Martin 34-yard field goal

1961 County Championship

Duldig

1961 Buffalo Bills season

, wind 10 mph

1961 Italian Grand Prix

Sasía
Eusébio
Benfica

Angelo Coia 62 yard pass from Bill Wade

Packers 21–0

Gordie Smith 10 yard pass from Fran Tarkenton
CHI 45–35

The 1961 German Grand Prix was the 23rd time the German Grand Prix (or Grosser Preis von Deutschland) motor race was held. The race also held the honorary designation of the 21st European Grand Prix. It was run to Formula One regulations as race 6 of 8 in both the 1961 World Championship of Drivers and the 1961 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers It was held on 6 August 1961 over 15 laps of the giant 14.2 mile Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit for a race distance of almost 213 miles.

Norm Masters

Mike Ditka 30 yard pass from Bill Wade

Packers 7–6

OffenseRef

1961 American Football League season

Ron Kramer 14-yard pass from Bart Starr

RG Starter

1961 Kansas City Athletics season

CHI 52–35

* 75 Forrest Gregg T
* 64 Jerry Kramer G
* 51 Jim Ringo C
* 76 Bob Skoronski T
* 63 Fuzzy Thurston G

Offensive Coaches

1961 Cleveland Browns season

ROLB Starter

Rick Casares 1-yard run

Rayson

rookie

Plaisted

linebackers

Tony Brooks

MIN 14–0

Paul Hornung 6-yard run

Willie Galimore 84-yard pass from Ed Brown

RT Starter

University of Arkansas

P Freaney 1-4, T Walsh 1-4, M Aylward 1-0, T Barry 0-3, J Delaney 0-1, D Kinsella 0-1.

Packers 34–0

Astley

Consensus national champion

J. Kelly

SEC co-champion

Craig

French
The 1961 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 2 July 1961 at Reims.

United Kingdom

Jerry Kramer

The 1961 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 18 June 1961 at Spa-Francorchamps. It was race 3 of 8 in both the 1961 World Championship of Drivers and the 1961 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.The organizers of the race invited 25 entries, but were only going to pay starting money to 19: sixteen pre-selected cars plus the 3 fastest of the remaining 9. Three of the cars without starting money decided not to race after practicing. A fourth entry was a single car for Cliff Allison and Henry Taylor. The team decided to let the fastest driver in practice compete, but Allison wrecked the car on his first practice lap. The Emeryson cars of Bianchi and Mairesse were also damaged beyond repair in practice, but they competed by using the older Lotus 18s of Marsh and Seidel, who had decided not to race. The race was completely dominated by the Ferrari team, with the four works drivers finishing 1-2-3-4. While Graham Hill made an amazing start to the lead from the third row, he could not hold off the Italian cars and all had passed him by the end of the first lap. There was some excitement for fifth place, with Graham Hill and Surtees passing each other for the position until Hill had to retire with an oil leak on the 24th lap.

Matt Sczesny and Bill Slack

Stone

1961 Bolivarian Games

Packers 14–9
Jim Ringo
Ron Kramer

MLB Starter

Robinson
Gibson