====== January 1, 1961 ======

===== News =====

•	Halfback [[Pervis Atkins]], whose AFL signing rights had been awarded to the Raiders after the short-lived Minneapolis/St. Paul franchise had drafted him as a redshirt out of New Mexico State, signed with the Rams

===== Transactions =====

•	The team signed a pair of draft choices, their first from the most recent draft: 25th-round pick, end [[Paul Yanke]] of Northwestern, and 27th-pick, end [[Clar Appledoorn]] of San Jose State

===== AFL Standings =====
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|  **Eastern Division**  |||| |
|[[Titans|Houston]]|  10|  4|  0| |
|[[Jets|New York]]|  7|  7|  0| |
|[[Bills|Buffalo]]|  5|  8|  1| |
|[[Patriots|Boston]]|  5|  9|  0| |
| | | | | |
|  **Western Division**  |||| |
|[[Chargers|Los Angeles]]|  10|  4|  0| |
|[[Chiefs|Dallas]]|  8|  6|  0| |
|Oakland|  6|  8|  0| |
|[[Broncos|Denver]]|  4|  9|  1| |
=== AFL Championship ===
Houston 24, Los Angeles 16

=====Coaching Staff=====

|[[Eddie Erdelatz]]|Head coach| |
|[[Ed Cody]]|Defensive backfield| |
|[[Marty Feldman]]|Defensive line| |
|[[Ernie Jorge]]|Offensive line| |
|[[Tommy Kalmanir]]|Offensive backfield| |

=====Roster=====

|  **Name**  |  **Pos**  |  **Ht**  |  **Wt**  |  **School**  | |
|[[Clar Appledoorn]]  |  WR  |  6'1"  |  190  |San Jose State  | |
|[[Ramon Armstrong]]|  G  |  6'1"  |  225  |Texas Christian  | |
|[[Doug Asad]]|  TE  |  6'3"  |  200  |Northwestern  | |
|[[Larry Barnes]]|  LB  |  6'2"  |  230  |Colorado State  | |
|[[Alex Bravo]]|  DB  |  6'1"  |  190  |Cal Poly-SLO  | |
|[[Joe Cannavino]]|  CB  |  5'11"  |  185  |Ohio State  | |
|[[Carmen Cavalli]]|  DE  |  6'4"  |  245  |Richmond  | |
|[[Wayne Crow]]|  DB  |  6'0"  |  205  |California  | |
|[[Don Deskins]]|  DT  |  6'2"  |  240  |Michigan  | |
|[[John Dittrich]]|  G  |  6'1"  |  240  |Wisconsin  | |
|[[Bob Dougherty]]|  LB  |  6'1"  |  235  |Kentucky  | |
|[[George Fields]]|  DE  |  6'3"  |  245  |Bakersfield College  | |
|[[Tom Flores]]|  QB  |  6'1"  |  190  |Pacific  | |
|[[Alan Goldstein]]|  WR  |  6'0"  |  200  |North Carolina  | |
|[[Charlie Hardy]]|  WR  |  6'0"  |  180  |San Jose State  | |
|[[John Harris]]|  DB  |  6'1"  |  195  |Santa Monica CC  | |
|[[Wayne Hawkins]]|  G  |  5'11"  |  235  |Pacific  | |
|[[Jack Larscheid]]|  HB  |  5'6"  |  160  |Pacific  | |
|[[Billy Lott]]|  FB  |  6'0"  |  200  |Mississippi  | |
|[[Tom Louderback]]|  LB  |  6'2"  |  235  |San Jose State  | |
|[[Eddie Macon]]|  DB  |  6'0"  |  180  |Pacific  | |
|[[Don Manoukian]]|  G  |  5'9"  |  240  |Stanford  | |
|[[Nyle McFarlane]]|  HB  |  6'2"  |  205  |Brigham Young  | |
|[[Riley Morris]]|  LB  |  6'2"  |  220  |Florida A&M  | |
|[[Paul Oglesby]]|  T  |  6'4"  |  235  |UCLA  | |
|[[Jim Otto]]|  C  |  6'2"  |  225  |Miami (FL)  | |
|[[Babe Parilli]]|  QB  |  6'1"  |  195  |Kentucky  | |
|[[Charley Powell]]|  DE  |  6'2"  |  225  |San Diego HS  | |
|[[Gene Prebola]]|  TE  |  6'3"  |  215  |Boston University  | |
|[[Ron Sabal]]|  T  |  6'3"  |  200  |Purdue  | |
|[[Jetstream Smith]]|  FB  |  6'1"  |  220  |Compton JC  | |
|[[Jack Stone]]|  T  |  6'2"  |  245  |Oregon  | |
|[[Tony Teresa]]|  HB  |  5'10"  |  185  |San Jose State  | |
|[[Dalton Truax]]|  T  |  6'2"  |  235  |Tulane  | |
|[[Ron Warzeka]]|  DT  |  6'4"  |  260  |Montana State  | |
|[[Paul Yanke]]|  WR  |  6'1"  |  200  |Northwestern  | |



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