| 1960Washington Huskies football | |
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| Conference | Athletic Association of Western Universities |
| Ranking | |
| Coaches | No. 5 |
| AP | No. 6 |
| Record | 10–1 (4–0 AAWU) |
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| Captain | Game captains |
| Home stadium | University of Washington Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 6Washington $ | 4 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USC | 3 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UCLA | 2 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| California | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stanford | 0 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 10 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The1960 Washington Huskies football team represented theUniversity of Washington during the1960 college football season. Home games were played on campus inSeattle atHusky Stadium, known at the time as University of Washington Stadium. Under fourth-year head coachJim Owens,[1] Washington was 9–1 in the regular season, 4–0 in theAthletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU), defeated top-rankedMinnesota in theRose Bowl, and outscored its opponents 272 to 107.[2][3] TheHelms Athletic Foundation, which considered bowl games in its ranking, awarded the Huskies thenational championship.[4][5][6][7]
The University of Washington officially recognized the 1960 football team as national champions in2007,[8] wearingthrowback uniforms in their game vs. USC. A flag was raised overHusky Stadium honoring the team as national champions.[9][10]
Led on the field by senior quarterbackBob Schloredt, anAll-American theprevious year, the Huskies started the season ranked third. Schloredt broke hiscollarbone in the fifth game, againstUCLA,[11] and did not play again in the regular season.[12][13] Bob Hivner took over as quarterback and won the game plus the next five.
A one-point loss on a last-minute field goal byOrange Bowl-boundNavy two weeks earlier in Seattle was the season's onlyblemish.[14][15] The Huskies returned to theRose Bowl to meet the top-rankedMinnesota Golden Gophers of theBig Ten Conference on January 2. Aseven-point underdog,[16]sixth-ranked Washington upset Minnesota17–7 for consecutive Rose Bowlwins.[13][17][18] Schloredt returned at quarterback and was the player of the game for a second straightyear.[13][19]
The final rankings in this era were released at the end of the regular season (in late November), prior to thebowl games.[20][21] Washington was ranked fifth and sixth in the respective polls.
| Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 17 | Pacific (CA)* | No. 3 | W 55–6 | 39,047 | [22] | |
| September 24 | Idaho* | No. 3 |
| W 41–12 | 35,996 | [23] |
| October 1 | No. 17Navy* | No. 3 |
| L 14–15 | 57,379 | [14][15] |
| October 8 | atStanford | No. 12 | W 29–10 | 23,500–24,032 | ||
| October 15 | No. 15UCLA | No. 13 |
| W 10–8 | 54,152 | [11] |
| October 22 | at No. 18Oregon State* | No. 8 | W 30–29 | 36,833 | [24] | |
| October 29 | Oregon* | No. 9 |
| W 7–6 | 55,235 | [25] |
| November 5 | atUSC | No. 7 | W 34–0 | 43,475 | [26] | |
| November 12 | California | No. 6 |
| W 27–7 | 55,884 | [27] |
| November 19 | atWashington State* | No. 5 | W 8–7 | 28,750 | [28][29] | |
| January 2, 1961 | vs. No. 1Minnesota* | No. 6 | W 17–7 | 97,314 | [17][13][18] | |
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Six University of Washington Huskies were selected in the1961 NFL draft, which lasted 20 rounds with 280 selections.[30] Four Huskies were selected in the1961 AFL draft, which lasted 30 rounds with 240 selections;[31] three of the four were also selected in the NFL draft.
| = Husky Hall of Fame[32] |
| League | Player | Position | Round | Pick | Franchise |
| NFL | Ben Davidson | Tackle | 4th | 46 | New York Giants |
| NFL | George Fleming | Halfback | 6th | 76 | Chicago Bears |
| NFL | Lee Folkins | End | 6th | 82 | Green Bay Packers |
| NFL | Bill Kinnune | Guard | 11th | 148 | St. Louis Cardinals |
| NFL | Chuck Allen | Guard | 17th | 228 | Los Angeles Rams |
| NFL | Don McKeta | Back | 20th | 277 | New York Giants |
| AFL | George Fleming | Halfback | 2nd | 12 | Oakland Raiders |
| AFL | Bill Kinnune | Guard | 26th | 207 | Los Angeles Chargers |
| AFL | Bob Schloredt | Quarterback | 27th | 214 | Dallas Texans |
| AFL | Chuck Allen | Guard | 28th | 223 | Los Angeles Chargers |
Owen's best just had baffled the Rose Bowl oddsmakers for the second straight year—tarnishing the Golden Gophers, acclaimed national champions, 17–7. [...] "I felt then," Owens said, "that they could do just about anything they wanted. And they did, didn't they? They beat the national champions. When you beat the champion, what does that make you?"
Jim Owens' Rose Bowl retreads tomorrow will return home to a triumphal welcome as the first national champions of college football in University of Washington history. The jubilant Huskies carry with them the unforgettable gratification of a 17–7 upset of the Minnesota Gophers to add to their 44–8 humiliation of Wisconsin on the same pleasant lea a year before. The 1961 victory was sweeter because the Golden Gophers were acclaimed as the nation's supreme team. And what the Huskies did to the Gophers before more than 100,000 awed and roaring onlookers on "legal" New Year's Day stamped Owens and his staff of midnight-oilers as spoilers without peer.
The Helms Athletic Foundation yesterday selected the University of Washington's Huskies as the college football champions of the 1960 season. The foundation always withholds its selections until after the New Year's bowl games. Washington and Mississippi were the finalists in the Helms selection.The Huskies were selected by a narrow margin. They beat Minnesota in the Rose Bowl and finished the season with a 10-1-0 record.
Washington's two-time Rose Bowl winners have been chosen College Football National Champions for 1960. The announcement was made by the Helms Athletic Foundation, which annually withholds its National Champion team choice until after the bowl games are played on New Year Day. [...] Before citing Washington, the Foundation queried a great number of football authorities, coaches and sportswriters, seeking their opinions.The majority heavily favored the Huskies from Seattle, coached by Jim Owens. In making the announcement, the Helms Foundation said the final decision narrowed down to two teams, Washington and Mississippi.
University of Washington Huskies crushed the Minnesota Gophers, rated as the number one team in the nation in both major polls, by a score of 17–7. [...] Following the results of the post-season bowl games, the Huskies were given the Helms Athletic Foundation Award as the nation's outstanding team.
In 1948, the Helms Athletic Foundation decided to name a national champion [...] and name past champions. The director of Helms since its beginning, Bill Schroeder, did the work, and he now heads the committee that selects No. 1 after the bowl games. 'A committee of one—me,' he says.
On Sept. 29, 2007, in a ceremony at a game vs. USC, Washington made an official claim to the 1960 national championship
The 1960 team, which lost only to Navy by a score of 15-14, will be honored the week of Washington's home game against USC on Sept. 29. The Huskies will wear throwback uniforms from that season, and a flag will be raised honoring the team as national champion.
Almost 47 years after they played their last game together, the players from that 1960 team will be recognized as national champions by UW this weekend. The team will be honored with a banquet on Friday night – 37 players and coach Jim Owens are expected to attend – and again at halftime of the UW-USC game on Saturday. A flag signifying the team as national champs will be unfurled, and the current Huskies will wear throwback uniforms modeled on the 1960 team.
Coach Owen's dashing, slashing speedsters beat the No. 1 team in the nation, and if that doesn't make the Huskies national champions, thenFloyd Patterson didn't win the title when he flattenedIngo.