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The 1960 New York Giants season was the franchise's 36th season in the National Football League. The Mara family was opposed to the AFL adding a team in New York, but received an indemnity fee of ten million dollars. [1]
Hugh McElhenny put on a Giants uniform for the first time in 1963 after 11 years as a star fullback with the San Francisco 49ers and Minnesota Vikings. McElhenny stayed with the Giants for one season, and of the 12 new players on the Giants' roster in 1963, only Hillebrand and John Lo Vetere spent more than two seasons with the team.
The game was played November 20, 1960 between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Giants at the original Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York. On the play, Chuck Bednarik , a linebacker with the Eagles , tackled Frank Gifford , a running back for the Giants , in the game's fourth quarter, knocking Gifford unconscious.
The game was a match-up of the Eastern Conference champion New York Giants (10–3–1) and the Western Conference champion Green Bay Packers (11–3). [6] The home team Packers were a 3 + 1 ⁄ 3-point favorite. [1] Packers Ray Nitschke, Boyd Dowler, and Paul Hornung, were on leave from the U.S. Army. [1]
Daniel Jones (1−1) * - Prior to 1933, the NFL Championship was won by the team with the best win–loss record in the regular season. Team career passing records
At the time, Lombardi was better known as an assistant coach (offense) for the New York Giants. Hired by the Packers in January 1959, [13] he led them to a 7–5 record in his first season as a head coach, a vast improvement over the 1958 season (1–10–1), their worst ever.
Tim Mara founded the Giants in the year 1925. Benny Friedman with the Giants. The Giants were founded in 1925 by original owner Tim Mara with an investment of $500. [1] Legally named "New York Football Giants" (which they still are to this day) to distinguish themselves from the baseball team of the same name, they became one of the first teams in the then five-year-old National Football League.
The 1962 NFL Championship Game was the 30th NFL title game, played on December 30, 1962, at Yankee Stadium in New York City.It matched the New York Giants (12–2) of the Eastern Conference and Green Bay Packers (13–1) of the Western Conference, the defending league champions.