Sports Highlights of 1960! (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1960)

Description

The original release sheet reads: SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS OF 1960! 1960 sees the greatest snow sports spectacle ever held in North America, the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California. Carl Heiss wins America’s first gold medal, and the hockey sextet goes on to a sensational triumph, downing the Soviet to take first place. At San Francisco, Ohio State outscores California to win the NCAA basketball championship. The Kentucky Derby is won by Venetian Way in a stirring come-from-behind finish. In the U.S. Open, Masters’ winner Arnold Palmer stages one of the greatest rallies ever seen on the links, coming from 7 strokes behind to win the Open crown on the last 18 holes. In the Summer Olympics in Rome, Germany’s Ingrid Kramer sweeps diving honors, but America’s swimmers win more gold medals than all the other countries together. John Thomas fails to win the high jump, dashing expectations. In the broad jump, Jesse Owen’s 26-year old record is bested at last by Ralph Boston. In the hurdles Lee Calhoun butts the tape to take first place. Otis Davis wins the 400 meters despite a lunge a la Lee Calhoun by Carl Kaufman of Germany. Heroine of the Olympics is Wilma Rudolph of Tennessee, the only competitor to win three gold medals. Don Bragg sets a new record for the pole vault. In the World Series, the Pirates cap one of the wildest October Classics in the annals of the game with the sensationally exciting seventh game against the Yankees. The score seesaws incredibly until they go into the bottom of the tenth all tied up, and Bill Mazeroski hits a fateful home run to bring Pittsburgh its first World Series in 35 years. On the gridiron, scenes show Bill Hagberg of Minnesota, Jim Anderson of Mississippi, the 102 yard touchdown run by Bill Wentz of Ohio State, and college grid’s man of the year, Joe Bellino in the Army-Navy game.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library