Arkansas vs. Duke

Monday, January 2, 1961, Cotton Bowl

No. 11 Duke beat No. 6 Arkansas 7–⁠6. It was their only meeting on record.

Neutral site6Arkansas8–⁠3 in 1960
6
Neutral site11Duke8–⁠3 in 1960
7

FinalTV: CBSAttendance 74,000Referee: Carl Bredt (SWC; split crew: SWC, ACC)

MVPs Lance Alworth (Arkansas HB); Dwight Bumgarner (Duke T)Wikipedia

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: ARKANSAS ONE-POINT LOSER Lonesome End Is Ace In Dukes Late Rally

    Evening star, District of Columbia, January 3, 1961, page 12

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    ARKANSAS ONE-POINT LOSER Lonesome End Is Ace In Dukes Late Rally DALLAS. Jan. 3 tAP).- Lonesome End Tee Norman, the toe of Art Browning and some little things turned into breaks vindicated Dukes angry Blue Devils with a 7–⁠6 victory over Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl yesterday. The dogged Blue Devils, driving to atone for defeats in their last two games of the regular season. waited until the clock had nearly run its course before they rolled 73 yards for the touchdown that gave them the triumph in their first appearance in the Cotton Bowl When the game ended, they were back down on the Ar kansas 1-yard line. For a month the lonesome end Of Duke, a big fellow who lined up IS yards away from his mates on every down. hac been the major topic. Coach Frank BroyleS had told how he feared this maneuver and how tough it would be to stop it. Coach Was So Right Broyles was a soothsayerit was Norman, the lonesom, end who kept that desperate drive going and it was Moor man, a lonely man in the enC zone, who caught Don Altman 9-yard pass for the touchdown that broke Arkansas heart. Browning, a big guard planted the ball between tn goal posts for the point tina won the game. 1t was NOR than Mickey Cissell, the Ar kansas place-kicking ace. coult do after his teams touchdown But Cissell had to contenI with chunky Dave Unser, tn surging Duke wingman VIII smashed through to block tn

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.

On the newsreel

  • COTTON BOWL74,000 in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas see the Duke Blue Devils battle from behind to edge out Arkansas in a squeaker, 7-6. (Charlotte and Memphis only)Universal Newsreel, January 5, 1961. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Photos from the game

  • Scanned from the 1961 edition of the Chanticleer, the yearbook of Duke University
    Scanned from the 1961 edition of the Chanticleer, the yearbook of Duke UniversityPhoto: Duke University, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Scanned from the 1961 edition of the Chanticleer, the yearbook of Duke University
    Scanned from the 1961 edition of the Chanticleer, the yearbook of Duke UniversityPhoto: Duke University, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  • Scanned from the 1961 edition of the Chanticleer, the yearbook of Duke University
    Scanned from the 1961 edition of the Chanticleer, the yearbook of Duke UniversityPhoto: Duke University, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Arkansas 59% to win. Duke pulled the upset.

Duke leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

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