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The 1960 American Football League Championship Game was the first AFL title game, played on New Year's Day 1961 at Jeppesen Stadium in Houston, Texas.^[2]^[3]^[4] With New Year's on Sunday, the major college bowl games were played on Monday, January 2.^[5]

The game matched the Eastern Division champion Houston Oilers (10–4), against the Western Division champion Los Angeles Chargers (10–4), in the first championship game of the new American Football League. The host Oilers were a 6½-point favorite.^[2]^[6]

The AFL had established a format in which championship games would be alternated each year between the Western Division winners and the Eastern Division. The first game was originally scheduled to be played in the cavernous Los Angeles Coliseum but with the Chargers drawing less than 10,000 a game in the 100,000+ seat coliseum it was feared ABC would pull its contract because of empty seats so the game was moved^[7] to the smaller Jeppesen Stadium in Houston, where it drew 32,183. It rained the five days prior to the game.^[2]

Oilers' quarterback George Blanda had retired after ten seasons in the NFL and did not play during the {{nfly|1959}} season; he threw three touchdown passes (and kicked a field goal and three extra points) to lead Houston to the first AFL title, 24–16.^[3]

Game summary

The Chargers led 6–0 in the first quarter on two field goals by Ben Agajanian, one of only two players (Hardy Brown) who played in the AAFC, the NFL and the AFL. In the second period, Houston scored on a 17-yard George Blanda pass to All-AFL fullback Dave Smith, then answered a 27-yard Agajanian field goal with a 17-yard kick by Blanda.

In the final quarter, Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon caught a short toss from Blanda and went for an 88-yard touchdown scamper. The Chargers, down by eight points, tried to reach the end zone on their final possession. Had they scored they could have gone for the two-point conversion, but the clock ran out with the Chargers at the Oilers' 22-yard line. The Oilers won the first American Football League championship, 24–16.

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See also

References

1. ^1960 NFL-AFL Commentator Crews{{dead link|date=September 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
2. ^¹²{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1961/01/01/page/20/article/houston-faces-los-angeles-in-title-battle |newspaper=Chicago Sunday Tribune |agency=Associated Press |title=Houston faces Los Angeles in title battle |date=January 1, 1961 |page=6, part 2}}
3. ^¹{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1961/01/02/page/189/article/oilers-rally-to-win-a-f-l-title-24-to-16 |newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune |agency=Associated Press |title=Oilers rally to win AFL title, 24 to 16 |date=January 2, 1961 |page=1, part 2}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7slRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZWwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5560%2C775952 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |title=Blanda paces Oilers to AFL title |agency=Associated Press |date=January 2, 1961 |page=44}}
5. ^{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1961/01/02/page/189/article/329-000-to-attend-4-bowl-games-today |newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune |last=Smith |first=Wilfrid |title=329,000 to attend 4 bowl games today |date=January 2, 1961 |page=1, part 6}}
6. ^{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7clRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZWwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6981%2C97674 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |agency=Associated Press |title=Houston, Los Angeles play for AFL title |date=January 1, 1961 |page=2, section 2}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17218818/la_times_19850917_p46_chargers_history/|title=LA Times 1985-09-17 P46 Chargers History - Newspapers.com|author=|date=|website=newspapers.com|accessdate=April 13, 2018}}
8. ^1960 NFL-AFL Commentator Crews{{dead link|date=September 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}