Air Force at Miami

Friday, December 2, 1960

Miami beat Air Force 23–⁠14. It was their first meeting; after it, Miami led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayAir Force4–⁠6 in 1960
14
HomeMiami6–⁠4 in 1960
23

FinalAttendance 29,678

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: ! HURRICANES. WIN, 1914 Moyos Aerial Display Couldn' Sove FoIcons

    Evening star, District of Columbia, December 3, 1960, page 10

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    ! HURRICANES. WIN, 1914 Moyos Aerial Display Couldn’ Sove FoIcons MIAMI. Fla. Dec. 8 CAP.- Eddie Johns and his Uniyersit, OF Miami Hurricanes. .endeC their 1860 football season will q 23–⁠14 victory last night but 1t was Rich Mayo and the All Force Academy who put on { sparkling aeerial show befor, they ran out Of gas. Mayo. q 6-foot l77.pount senior from Eureka. Calf. com. pleted Q Of 10 pass attempts fol lat yards to place him fiftl smcng all college passers on record. Mayo’s 3o-yard pass to Dicl Brown set up the Air Force: flrst touchdown and he passes to Brown for another in thu third quarter, Another Of hi. passes, to DON BaucoIn, ,wenl for 10 yards and one to Brown was good for IL late in the game. Mayo joined 0 select erour Of college passers headed BY Don Kolsterman Of LoyoIa .oi Los Angeles. Zeke Bratkowsk of Georgia. Don Heinrich oi Washington and Babe Parilll of Kentucky. w standSus Ban Carriers Mike Quinlan. Nick Arshinkof and Bob McDonough stood out among bail carriers for the Air Force. Quinlan carried II times for So net yards. Arshin. koff picked up S.. in 13 tries and McDonough, smallest mar on the field at l40 pounds gained 20 yards In three carries ,Quinlan picked up q bad pass from center on the 10. and ran over the. goal line to give Miami q two point automatic safety in the first period. Miami moved ahead. 9–⁠6 opening the second quarter. Al Dangel faxed Q field goal at. tempt from the nine and George MacIntyre passed Il Bill Miller for the score. DANCE then converted to make Il Miami Q, Air Force 6. Johns. . brilliant. 194-pount sophomore from Bovard. Pa. ran 66 yards to the Air Force before Quinlan caught him Johns scored on q fourth down and four to go and passes to. Ted Sausselle for two NOR points. Nick Ryder Scores Nick Ryder then ran ovel from the six for the fina score. -.f4.tF In all, Johns picked up II yards Of the 375. Miami gaipet rushing. The Hurricanes nettet

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)

Miami 59% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Miami leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.

Recent meetings
1962Miami 21, Air Force 3
1960Miami 23, Air Force 14

Around this game

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