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The 1960 NFL season was the 41st regular season of the National Football League. ... 1960, with the Dallas Cowboys selecting 36 players from the other 12 teams.
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.
The franchise was allowed to retain both players, but had to give their third-round and ninth-round choices in the 1962 NFL draft to the Bears and Colts, respectively. On March 13, 1960, the franchise selected 36 players in an expansion draft. Each of the other 12 NFL teams were allowed to protect 25 players from their 36-man roster.
The 1960 NFL draft and the 1960 AFL Draft were held separately for college players (the common draft was initiated in 1967). The NFL Draft was a draft of 20 rounds with 12 teams picking. The Eagles rotated having the 7th, 8th or 9th pick in the draft rounds, with Chicago and Cleveland.
The 1960 Green Bay Packers season was their 42nd season overall and their 40th season in the National Football League. The team finished with an 8–4 record under second-year head coach Vince Lombardi to win the Western Conference and a berth in the NFL championship game .
Selectors of All-Pros for the 1960 National Football League season included the Associated Press (AP), [1] United Press International (UPI), [2] New York Daily News (NYDN), Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), [3] and The Sporting News (SN).
The rival NFL staged their own draft one week later, beginning a bidding war for the services of players. [39] Including Stickles, eight of the Chargers' initial thirty-three selections played for NFL teams in 1960. Only three were with the Chargers on opening day.
The 1960 NFL expansion draft was the first National Football League (NFL) draft in which a new expansion team, which eventually became known as the Dallas Cowboys, selected its initial players. The NFL awarded Dallas, Texas a franchise to compete for revenue with Lamar Hunt's Dallas Texans of the upstart American Football League. [1] However ...