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-====== September 9, 1961 ====== +{{page>1961_news#september 9, 1961}}
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-===== News ===== +
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-• The [[Titans|Oilers]] demolished the Raiders, 55-0, in the regular season opener in Houston +
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-• The Oilers’ 55 points were a new AFL record +
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-• Houston outgained the Raiders in total yards, 482-130 +
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-• The game was picketed by the local chapter of the NAACP because of the segregation policy in place at Jeppesen Stadium, the site of the game +
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-• The group reached out to the Black players on the team—who, at the time, included [[Jim Brewington]], [[George Fields]], [[George Fleming]], [[Charley Fuller]], [[Charlie Hardy]], [[John Harris]], [[Riley Morris]] and [[Charley Powell]]—urging them not to cross the picket line and play +
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-• General manager [[Bud Hastings]] said the team “was not interested in any outside conflict” and that no telegrams had been sent to the players +
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-• Hastings later said that the Black players had “discussed the situation and decided they had come here to play football” +
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-• None of the players were quoted directly in the Bay Area press +
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-• Each of the players did appear in the game +
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-• The game was played under threat of inundation by Hurricane Carla, a category-three storm that meterologists thought could land on the Texas coast around game time +
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-• However, aside from higher than usual wind speeds (20-25 mph), the storm had no impact on the contest +
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-• [[Wayne Crow]] started at halfback ahead of Fuller +
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-• Quarterback [[Tom Flores]] completed just 7 of 21 passes for 59 yards +
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-===== Injury Updates ===== +
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-• Center [[Jim Otto]] suffered a concussion in the second quarter and missed the rest of the game +
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-• Halfback [[Jack Larscheid]], thought likely to miss the game because of a leg injury, played after all +
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-• Defensive end [[Jon Jelacic]] was still recovering from a pulled hamstring and did not play +
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-===== AFL Standings ===== +
-|<30%>| +
-|  **Eastern Division**  |||| | +
-|[[Titans|Houston]]|  1|  0|  0| | +
-|[[Jets|New York]]|  1|  0|  0| | +
-|[[Bills|Buffalo]]|  0|  0|  0| | +
-|[[Patriots|Boston]]|  0|  1|  0| | +
-| | | | | | +
-|  **Western Division**  |||| | +
-|[[Chiefs|Dallas]]|  0|  0|  0| | +
-|[[Broncos|Denver]]|  0|  0|  0| | +
-|[[Chargers|San Diego]]|  0|  0|  0| | +
-|Oakland|  0|  1|  0| | +
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-===Scores=== +
-Houston 55, Oakland 0\\ +
-New York 21, Boston 20 +
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-<prespan>[[september-8-1961|< Sep 8, 1961]]     [[1961_calendar|Back to Calendar]]     [[september-10-1961|Sep 10, 1961 >]]</prespan> +
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