1960 Pittsburgh Steelers season

1960 Pittsburgh Steelers season
Head coach	Buddy Parker
Owner	Art Rooney
Home field	Forbes Field
Results
Record	5–6–1
Division place	5th NFL Eastern
Playoff finish	did not qualify

The 1960 Pittsburgh Steelers season involved the team's fifth-place finish in the Eastern Conference. They compiled a 5–6–1 record under head coach Buddy Parker, while playing their home games at Forbes Field.

Preseason

Among the Steelers' preseason games in 1960 was an exhibition match with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League; the Steelers won handily, 43–16. Forty-eight years later, the Steelers will return to Toronto to face the Buffalo Bills as the first game in the Toronto Series.

Regular season

Schedule

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Record
1	September 24	at Dallas Cowboys	W 35–28	1–0
2	October 2	at Cleveland Browns	L 28–20	1–1
3	October 9	New York Giants	L 19–17	1–2
4	October 16	St. Louis Cardinals	W 27–14	2–2
5	October 23	at Washington Redskins	T 27–27	2–2–1
6	October 30	Green Bay Packers	L 19–13	2–3–1
7	November 6	at Philadelphia Eagles	L 34–7	2–4–1
8	November 13	at New York Giants	L 27–24	2–5–1
9	November 20	Cleveland Browns	W 14–10	3–5–1
10	November 27	Washington Redskins	W 22–10	4–5–1
11	December 4	Bye
12	December 11	Philadelphia Eagles	W 27–21	5–5–1
13	December 18	at St. Louis Cardinals	L 38–7	5–6–1

• A bye week was necessary in 1960, as the league expanded to an odd-number (13) of teams (Dallas); one team was idle each week.

Game summaries

Week 1 (Saturday September 24, 1960): Dallas Cowboys

	1	2	3	4	Total
Steelers	7	7	14	7	35
Cowboys	14	7	7	0	28

at Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas

• Game time:
• Game weather:
• Game attendance: 30,000
• Referee:
• TV announcers:
• Dallas – Doran 75 pass from LeBaron (Cone kick)
• Dallas – Dugan 7 pass from Lebaron (Cone kick)
• Pittsburgh – Carpenter 28 pass from Layne (Layne kick)
• Dallas – McIlhenny 5 run (Cone kick)
• Pittsburgh – Orr 6 pass from Layne (Layne kick)
• Pittsburgh – Dial 70 pass from Tracy (Layne kick)
• Dallas – Doran 54 pass from LeBaron (Cone kick)
• Pittsburgh – Carpenter 49 pass from Layne (Layne kick)
• Pittsburgh – Tracy 65 pass from Layne (Layne kick)

Scoring Drives:

Week 2 (Sunday October 2, 1960): Cleveland Browns

	1	2	3	4	Total
Steelers	0	0	7	13	20
Browns	7	14	0	7	28

at Cleveland Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio

• Game time:
• Game weather:
• Game attendance: 67,692
• Referee:
• TV announcers:

Scoring Drives:

• Cleveland – Plum 1 run (Baker kick)
• Cleveland – Mitchell 5 run (Baker kick)
• Cleveland – Kreitling 60 pass from Plum (Baker kick)
• Pittsburgh – Tracy 40 pass from Layne (Layne kick)
• Pittsburgh – Tracy 1 run (kick failed)
• Cleveland – Brown 2 run (Baker kick)
• Pittsburgh – Dial 3 pass from Layne (Rechichar kick)

Week 3 (Sunday October 9, 1960): New York Giants

	1	2	3	4	Total
Giants	0	12	0	7	19
Steelers	7	0	7	3	17

at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Game time:
• Game weather:
• Game attendance: 40,323
• Referee:
• TV announcers:

Scoring Drives:

• Pittsburgh – Orr 22 pass from Tracy (Rechichar kick)
• New York Giants – FG Summerall 41
• New York Giants – Safety, Johnson tackled in end zone by Grier
• New York Giants – Rote 9 pass from Shaw (Summerall kick)
• Pittsburgh – Dial 30 pass from Layne (Rechichar kick)
• Pittsburgh – FG Rechichar 11
• New York Giants – Gifford 44 pass from Conerly (Summerall kick)

Week 4 (Sunday October 16, 1960): St. Louis Cardinals

	1	2	3	4	Total
Cardinals	0	0	0	14	14
Steelers	6	7	7	7	27

at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Game time:
• Game weather:
• Game attendance: 22,971
• Referee:
• TV announcers:

Scoring Drives:

• Pittsburgh – FG Rechichar 42
• Pittsburgh – FG Rechichar 31
• Pittsburgh – Tracy 4 run (Rechichar kick)
• Pittsburgh – Dial 26 pass from Layne (Rechichar kick)
• St. Louis – Crow 6 run (Conrad kick)
• St. Louis – Mestnik 2 run (Conrad kick)
• Pittsburgh – Orr 51 pass from Tracy (Rechichar kick)

Week 5 (Sunday October 23, 1960): Washington Redskins

	1	2	3	4	Total
Steelers	7	3	7	10	27
Redskins	7	3	7	10	27

at Griffith Stadium, Washington, DC

• Game time:
• Game weather:
• Game attendance: 25,292
• Referee:
• TV announcers:

Scoring Drives:

• Washington – Olszewski 1 run (Khayat kick)
• Pittsburgh – Tracy 5 pass from Bukich (Layne kick)
• Washington – FG Khayat 15
• Pittsburgh – FG Layne 17
• Pittsburgh – Lewis recovered fumble in end zone (Layne kick)
• Washington – Walton 35 pass from Guglielmi (Khayat kick)
• Washington – Anderson 12 pass from Guglielmi (Khayat kick)
• Pittsburgh – FG Layne 15
• Pittsburgh – Dial 27 pass from Bukich (Layne kick)
• Washington – FG Khayat 43

Week 6 (Sunday October 30, 1960): Green Bay Packers

	1	2	3	4	Total
Packers	9	3	0	7	19
Steelers	0	7	0	6	13

at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Game time:
• Game weather:
• Game attendance: 30,155
• Referee:
• TV announcers:

Scoring Drives:

• Green Bay – FG Hornung 35
• Green Bay – FG Hornung 35
• Green Bay – FG Hornung 45
• Green Bay – FG Hornung 17
• Pittsburgh – Tracy 37 pass from Layne (Layne kick)
• Pittsburgh – Dial 48 pass from Layne (pass failed)
• Green Bay – Taylor 1 run (Hornung kick)

Week 7 (Sunday November 6, 1960): Philadelphia Eagles

	1	2	3	4	Total
Steelers	0	0	0	7	7
Eagles	14	3	7	10	34

at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Game time:
• Game weather:
• Game attendance: 58,324
• Referee: John Pace
• TV announcers:

Scoring Drives:

• Philadelphia – Barnes 9 run (Walston kick)
• Philadelphia – McDonald 24 pass from Van Brocklin (Walston kick)
• Philadelphia – FG Walston 21
• Philadelphia – McDonald 39 pass from Van Brocklin (Walston kick)
• Philadelphia – FG Walston 11
• Pittsburgh – Dial 50 pass from Tracy (Layne kick)
• Philadelphia – McDonald 26 pass from Van Brocklin (Walston kick)

Week 8 (Sunday November 13, 1960): New York Giants

	1	2	3	4	Total
Steelers	14	10	0	0	24
Giants	7	7	3	10	27

at Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York

• Game time:
• Game weather:
• Game attendance: 63,321
• Referee:
• TV announcers:

Scoring Drives:

• Pittsburgh – Layne 1 run (Layne kick)
• Pittsburgh – Tracy 1 run (Layne kick)
• New York Giants – Gifford 6 run (Summerall kick)
• Pittsburgh – FG Layne 10
• Pittsburgh – Dial 7 pass from Layne (Layne kick)
• New York Giants – Gifford 57 pass from Conerly (Summerall kick)
• New York Giants – FG Summerall 43
• New York Giants – Gifford 27 pass from Conerly (Summerall kick)
• New York Giants – FG Summerall 37

Week 9 (Sunday November 20, 1960): Cleveland Browns

	1	2	3	4	Total
Browns	0	0	3	7	10
Steelers	7	0	0	7	14

at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Game time:
• Game weather:
• Game attendance: 35,215
• Referee:
• TV announcers:

Scoring Drives:

• Pittsburgh – Johnson 3 run (Layne kick)
• Cleveland – FG Baker 19
• Cleveland Kreitling 6 pass from Plum (Baker kick)
• Pittsburgh – Tracy 4 run (Layne kick)

Week 10 (Sunday November 27, 1960): Washington Redskins

	1	2	3	4	Total
Redskins	0	0	7	3	10
Steelers	6	7	3	6	22

at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Game time:
• Game weather:
• Game attendance: 22,234
• Referee:
• TV announcers:

Scoring Drives:

• Pittsburgh – FG Tracy 37
• Pittsburgh – FG Tracy 31
• Pittsburgh – Tracy 28 run (Layne kick)
• Washington – James 49 pass from Guolielmi (Khayat kick)
• Pittsburgh – FG Layne 23
• Washington – FG Khayat 9
• Pittsburgh – FG Tracy 28
• Pittsburgh – FG Layne 11

Week 12 (Sunday December 11, 1960): Philadelphia Eagles

	1	2	3	4	Total
Eagles	0	0	0	21	21
Steelers	13	14	0	0	27

at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Game time:
• Game weather:
• Game attendance: 22,101
• Referee:
• TV announcers:

Scoring Drives:

• Pittsburgh – Layne 6 run (Layne kick)
• Pittsburgh – Johnson 7 pass from Layne (kick failed)
• Pittsburgh – Johnson 87 run (Layne kick)
• Pittsburgh – Dial 15 pass from Johnson (Layne kick)
• Philadelphia – Brown 53 pass from Jurgensen (Walston kick)
• Philadelphia – Brown 7 run (Walston kick)
• Philadelphia – McDonald 19 pass from Jurgensen (Walston kick)

Week 13 (Sunday December 18, 1960): St. Louis Cardinals

	1	2	3	4	Total
Steelers	0	7	0	0	7
Cardinals	0	7	17	14	38

at Busch Stadium I, St. Louis, Missouri

• Game time:
• Game weather:
• Game attendance: 20,840
• Referee:
• TV announcers:

Scoring Drives:

• St. Louis – Mestnik 1 run (Perry kick)
• Pittsburgh – Orr 49 pass from Layne (Layne kick)
• St. Louis – FG Perry 16
• St. Louis – Randle 14 pass from Roach (Perry kick)
• St. Louis – Randle 8 pass from Roach (Perry kick)
• St. Louis – Roach 1 run (Perry kick)
• St. Louis – Randle 33 pass from Roach (Perry kick)

Standings

NFL Eastern Conference
	W	L	T	PCT	CONF	PF	PA	STK
Philadelphia Eagles	10	2	0	.833	8–2	321	246	W1
Cleveland Browns	8	3	1	.727	6–3–1	362	217	W3
New York Giants	6	4	2	.600	5–4–1	271	261	L1
St. Louis Cardinals	6	5	1	.545	4–5–1	288	230	W1
Pittsburgh Steelers	5	6	1	.455	4–5–1	240	275	L1
Washington Redskins	1	9	2	.100	0–8–2	178	309	L8

Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.

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