Navy vs. Missouri
Monday, January 2, 1961, Orange Bowl Share
No. 5 Missouri beat No. 7 Navy 21–14. It was their second meeting; after it, Missouri led the series 2–0.
FinalTV: CBSAttendance 71,218Referee: W. P. Astle (Big Eight; split crew: Big Eight, EAIFO)The game on Wikipedia
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, January 3, 1961, page 12
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Tigers Cage Be|Iino, but LoRose Labels Him Genuine AII-Americo guessing over Bellino’s fair catch Of a Missouri punt late in the game with Navy trailing, 21–14. 1t looked like Joe had running room. Coach Wayne Hardin said. and many of the fans expected lin to try cne of his fancy returns. 1T was a judgment play” Bellino said. IF let the ball roll, it might’ve taken a bad bounce. AS for trying to run, it looked like they were coming at me pretty good” y && Bellino says he will go into the Marine Corps or the sub marine service, and LaRose is having trouble making up his mind. too. He’ll go either with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League or the Boston Patriots of the rival American League, both OF which drafted him. II won’t make up my mind for a while yet,” LaRose says Both of them are pretty close in what they’re offering, and there are a lot of things you have to consider” II u u ~ halftime pageant was fantastic. 1t had a Roman holiday motif, complete with horse drawn chariots, trumpet .ers, smartly dressed soldiers in blazing red and white, spear bearers, etc. And just for realism, live lions brought in on Gagged floats. 1t was so good that someone said that the only way they’ll be able to top it next year will be to let the lions loose. FUCHS.
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
- THE BOWL GAMES ORANGE BOWLAt Miami, over 71,000 including President-elect Kennedy, see the Missouri Tigers battle Navy. Holding Navy star Joe Bellino down most of the way, the Tigers claw to a 21-14 victory
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.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Missouri 51% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Navy–Missouri gameMissouri leads 2–1 in three meetings, counting the one since this game.
| 2009 | Navy 35, Missouri 13 | Texas Bowl |
| 1960 | Missouri 21, Navy 14 | Orange Bowl |
| 1948 | Missouri 35, Navy 14 |
Around this game
Navy
- Next gameat Penn StateSept. 23, 1961
- SeasonNavy in 1960
- ProgramNavy history and records
Missouri
- Next gamevs. Washington StateSept. 23, 1961
- SeasonMissouri in 1960
- ProgramMissouri history and records

