Though dulled in recent years by neither team harboring legitimate playoff hopes, the Chargers and Raiders have clashed in many fantastic games over the years, and thus have constructed a fine rivalry, even if it is only recognized in Oakland and San Diego (and perhaps Los Angeles). I recently picked up an handful of 1960 Los Angeles Chargers game programs, including one from the November 27, 1960 game, the first regular season contest between the two clubs.
This inaugural AFL meeting was played at the Los Angeles Coliseum, and the Chargers came away with a 52-28 victory, due in great part to Jack Kemp’s 24 pass attempts for 241 yards, and a rushing touchdown each by Kemp, Paul Lowe, Howie Ferguson and Fred Ford. The full box score can be found HERE, courtesy of pro-football-reference.com
My step-father was a huge old-time Raiders fan. After his passing, we found all sorts of memorabilia. If we saved any of it, I’ll let you know.
Maybe it’s just me (somehow I doubt it, rhetorical question), but don’t old time football programs look better their quaint, ‘do more with less’ method creativity & less than perfect non-computer generated images? Not unlike SD Chargers 1960’s uniforms, still have yet to see anything can match said.
Beauty in the eye the beholder, vintage AFL programs whether in black & white or later color covers, hand drawn art and/or photos were nigh on masterpieces my opinion. Ditto too NFL covers the 1960’s, though as in Superbowls III & IV the NFL came up second best to the AFL : )
Probably the switch to less creative/less visually stimulating covers starting 1968 AFL & ongoing through 1969 was a bu$ine$$ decision, but that simpler time remains unmatched to date terms game programs/covers, as is the case with most everything else my opine. Liken it to watching old television shows, which you came to love in black & white. When it was switched to color just wasn’t quite the same, though some beautiful color shows as football programs were created.
Could also reference the beauty of cars then (a 1968 Dodge Charger for example, it’s coming out party fall of ’67) compared today’s garish automotive efforts/ design, but that’s for another blog.
Not many Karl Hubenthals’ in the world, his art work was quite distinctive, one of the finest illustrative artist of his or any other day. I dare say in today’s sports world he would be unable to express himself so imaginatively with swords, guns and knives.
Hubenthal was a Hollywood High Alumn class of 1934.
I agree with 1967, the old time football programs do say more with less. I have a 1960 Chargers-Oilers program with a great caricature of Billy Cannon on the cover. Cartoonist Bill Gallo’s 1962 New York Titans game programs are also classic.
Too bad they didn’t have the 50 year AFL anniversary year of 2009 program covers done like that, between meetings of original AFL teams…
Do you have a copy of the 1960 Oakland Raiders team photo?
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