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Mizzou to Honor 1960 Team as National Champions During Homecoming Game
The Tigers went 11-0 in 1960 and beat Navy in the Orange Bowl, but polls had named other teams national champions.
- On Friday, Missouri Athletics announced it will officially recognize the 1960 football team as national champions, with a halftime ceremony scheduled for the September 19 game against Troy.
- Led by coach Dan Devine, the Tigers finished 11-0 in 1960 after the Kansas Jayhawks forfeited the regular-season finale for fielding an ineligible player, Bert Coan.
- Senator Eric Schmitt introduced a United States Senate resolution on August 6 recognizing the team's undefeated season and Orange Bowl victory, which passed unanimously without objection.
- Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Memorial Stadium, the school will host the recognition ceremony amidst a $250 million renovation project of the North End Zone.
- While Missouri had not previously claimed the title, the Tigers now join four other programs—Minnesota, Washington, Iowa, and Ole Miss—that officially recognize their 1960 squads as national champions.
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SEC Program Officially Claims First National Championship It Won in a Different Conference 66 Years Earlier
The Missouri Tigers have spent over a decade trying to grab their first SEC football championship. Now, they have found a national title in an unexpected place: their own distant past. On August 28, Mizzou Athletics officially claimed the 1960 national championship, a title earned 66 years ago, back when the program was playing in […] The post SEC Program Officially Claims First National Championship It Won in a Different Conference 66 Years Ear…
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