Air Force at Navy

Saturday, October 15, 1960

No. 5 Navy beat Air Force 35–⁠3. It was their first meeting; after it, Navy led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayAir Force4–⁠6 in 1960
3
Home5Navy9–⁠2 in 1960
35

FinalHigh 81°F, low 56°FAttendance 50,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: NAVY Spooner and BeIIino Tome Fo|cons, 35-3

    Evening star, October 16, 1960, page 86

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    NAVY Spooner and BeIIino Tome Fo|cons, 35–⁠3 Iyard scoring attack in the Sec ond quarter, with Spooner COM pleting five straight passes | to Mather for 8 yards and to Prichard for 6, II, Z and 10 yards. McKeown picked up Is yards on q draw play, and Bellino went the final IS, taking his way completely out Of the arms of Leo johnson while still behind the scrim m q ge line. Mather kicked the point. Later in the second quarter Prichard intercepted q pass by Mayo on the Air Force 46 and returned to the 81. Spooner went to work again, hitting Luper for 10 yards. He was hit by Guard Frank Kiszely for an 8-yard loss on the IS. Then he let go with a high, long one toward the corner. The ball sailed over Brickley’s head and Bellino caught 1t. while getting out Of the way Of Rawlins, for the touchdown. Less than two minutes remained in the half and Navy owned q 21–⁠3 lead. Matalavage Scores The Middies went 81 yards in the third quarter. again on Spooner’s arm. He threw to Vic Meyer for 9 yards. to Ma ther for Is and completed his 10th pass in 20 tries to Nc Keown for II. With fourth and one to go on the two. Bellino came in to make the first down, and Matalavage crashed through for the touchdown. Huffman, one Of Navy’s many defensive standouts today. hit Mayo with a jolt in the fourth quarter just as the Air Force star was throwing. The ball went up in the air, and Dattilo gathered it in with a lunge on the Navy 20 and ran all the way. leaving his last pursuer, Quinlan, sprawled on the Air Force 20. Huffman’s act put a stop to Mayo. who just before had completed passes Of 81 and 7 yards to Quinlan to carry the Falcons to the Navy 20. NV A1H FORCE --------- 3 1s : &sS Air Force-FG, RawIins l32l. Navy-1ellino I. run Oattilo, pass from spooneT): D,.... .,.., EsyyB:nS g. T%n pss. MasE iIo@ spoSnsr sSs (pass failed). /, run Mather Nayy2Dattilo so. interceptiOn (Mather kick. NAVY Left end-Graham, Dattflo, Kellner Left tackle-Driscoll. Testa, Butsko, Left Euard-Hoy. FitSgerald. Easton. Center-Visted, Lucci. Pierce. Right guard-Hewitt, Won Sydow, Rieht tackle-Erchul. Huffman. Mac donald. Right end-Luper. Mather, Mcouade. Quarterbaek-spooner. DietT, Kle- left half-BellinO. strObach. Kisiel. RiGht half-Prichard. HardisOn. Meyer. Zenyuh. Fullbsck-Matalavage, MeKeon. Nc Tntire. AIR FORCE Left end-Brickey. Maxwell, Brown. Left tackle-Rountree. Bobko, Left guard-Cubero, Kiszely. Hent- Center-Newman, Needham. Mac Right suard-Kohl. Woods, oriney. RiGht tackle-walker. wasner. Simpson, Lang. Right end-HardaEe. Tietge. Eckles. Quarterhack-Mayo. Hess, MeNaugh- Left SSlf-saucOm. McDonough, Right hslt-euinlan. Ravlins. j, /, iRpIISaeEsEMoOrbers. johnson. Ar

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Navy 69% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Air Force leads 35–⁠24 in 59 meetings, counting the 58 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Air Force 14, Navy 9
2025Navy 34, Air Force 31
2024Navy 34, Air Force 7
2023Air Force 17, Navy 6
2022Air Force 13, Navy 10
2021Air Force 23, Navy 3

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