Jets’ Win Streak Halted, Tie Broncos 35-35
Oct. 26, 1963 - The New York Jets failed to extend their Polo Grounds win streak to four games tonight and had to settle for a 35-35 tie...
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Oct 26, 2023
Navy Wins Impressive Victory over Pitt as Staubach Shines
Oct. 26, 1963 - The strongest Panthers football team in years came to its undoing today at the hands of Roger Staubach and its own...
Oct 23, 2023
Lombardi Hits Back at Cardinal Coach Wally Lemm
Oct. 23, 1963 - An angry Vince Lombardi, reacting to a personal attack on Green Bay Packer fullback Jim Taylor (left) by St. Louis head...
Oct 23, 2023
Dick Butkus a Force in College Football
Oct. 23, 1963 - You could hear the groans all the way from the Los Angeles campus of UCLA when Bob Nicolette, varsity trainee at the...
Oct 21, 2023
Packers’ Bart Starr Has Fractured Hand
Oct. 21, 1963 - Green Bay’s hopes for an unprecedented third straight NFL title were dealt a severe blow today when X-rays disclosed that...
Oct 21, 2023
49ers Score Massive Upset Against Bears, 20-14, at Kezar Stadium
Oct. 21, 1963 - The 49ers upset the Chicago Bears, 20-14, yesterday before 35,837 shocked and delighted fans at San Francisco’s Kezar...
Oct 21, 2023
Giants Come Back to Beat Cowboys, 27-21
Oct. 21, 1963 - Did the 62,889 fans see two games for the price of one in Yankee Stadium yesterday? It certainly appeared that way as the...
Oct 20, 2023
Packers Trounce Cardinals at Busch Stadium
Oct. 20, 1963 - The Green Bay Packers scored the first five times they had the ball and trounced the Cardinals, 30-7, today at Busch...
Oct 20, 2023
Browns Destroy Eagles for Sixth Straight Victory
Oct. 20, 1963 - It’s true what they say about Jim Brown and the revitalized Cleveland Browns. They’re murder. The Eagles found this out...
Oct 19, 2023
Crimson Tide Beats Tennessee as Namath Shines
Oct. 19, 1963 - Joe Namath threw three touchdown passes today to steer Alabama to a 35-0 victory over Tennessee at Legion Field in...
Oct 18, 2023
Cappelletti Outscores entire Broncos Team as Patriots Win in Boston
Oct. 18, 1963 - Gino Cappelletti, the American Football League scoring leader, went on a 22-point spree tonight to personally outscore...
Oct 14, 2023
Brown Runs Roughshod Over Giants at Yankee Stadium
Oct. 14, 1963 - “Jim Brown is the greatest runner I ever saw.” Blanton Collier, the Cleveland coach, and Al Sherman, his New York...
Oct 14, 2023
Bears Destroy Rams in L.A., 52-14
Oct. 14, 1963 - The Chicago Bears scored 14 points in 55 seconds yesterday as they romped off to a 52-14 triumph over the hapless Rams....
Oct 13, 2023
Cowboys Top Lions at Cotton Bowl for First Victory of 1963
Oct. 13, 1963 - Linebacker Chuck Howley’s interceptions of two passes set up a field goal and a touchdown pass from Eddie LeBaron...
Oct 13, 2023
Colts Hand 49ers 12th Straight Loss
Oct. 13, 1963 - Johnny Unitas pitched the Colts to a touchdown the first time they had the ball today, and the Colts survived a shoddy...
Oct 12, 2023
Longhorns Upset Sooners at Cotton Bowl
Oct. 12, 1963 - Texas laid claim to the No. 1 ranking among the nation’s college football teams today by toppling Oklahoma, king of the...
Oct 11, 2023
Patriots Come Back To Defeat Raiders at Fenway
Oct. 11, 1963 - Babe Parilli, the Boston Patriots quarterback, regained his early season form tonight and passed for two touchdowns in a...
Oct 8, 2023
Giants’ Sam Huff Prepares for Jimmy Brown
Oct. 8, 1963 - Shortly before 2 p.m. today, a large young man with a baby face and a slight bulge around his middle sat in front of his...
Oct 8, 2023
NFL Holds Its Own Against World Series
Oct. 8, 1963 - Pro football has reached an elevation from which it can ignore, or even jeer, at baseball’s jewel, the World Series....
Oct 7, 2023
Giants Score 11th Straight NFL Victory Over Redskins
Oct. 7, 1963 - Over recent seasons, the New York Giants have scalped the Washington Redskins with consistent, consummate ease. The...
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