Year: | 1960 |
Team: | Duke Blue Devils |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Atlantic Coast Conference |
Short Conf: | ACC |
Coachrank: | 11 |
Aprank: | 10 |
Record: | 8–3 |
Conf Record: | 5–1 |
Head Coach: | William D. Murray |
Hc Year: | 10th |
Mvp: | Tee Moorman |
Captain: | Art Browning |
Stadium: | Duke Stadium |
Champion: | ACC champion |
Bowl: | Cotton Bowl |
Bowl Result: | W 7–6 vs. Arkansas |
The 1960 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University during the 1960 college football season.[1] Led by eighth-year head coach William D. Murray, the Blue Devils were Atlantic Coast Conference champions,[2] [3] [4] [5] and won the Cotton Bowl by a point over favored Arkansas.[6] [7] [8]
It was Duke's sixth and most recent major bowl appearance, and its only trip to the Cotton Bowl. The program's next bowl was nearly three decades away, in 1989,[9] and the next bowl win came in 2015.