Same as catalog # 363726 Universal Newsreel on '60 sports highlights. With VO. Lots of nice spectator shots.
DO NOT USE Olympics footage. 1960 Sees the greatest snow sports spectacle over held in north America, the winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California. Carol Heiss wins America s first gold medal, and the hockey sextet goes on to a sensational triumph, downing the soviet to take first place. US team scores goal. VS teams playing.
At San Francisco, Ohio State outscores California to win the NCAA Basketball Championship. Fans disagree with call. 75-55 Ohio. VS court action, and a good shot of spectators in the stands.
The Kentucky Derby is won by Venetian Way in a stirring come-from-behind finish. Horses coming out of gate. (horseracing) WS over the heads of the vast crowd of spectators to the track. Horses coming out of the gates. Camera tracks as horses pass. MS a few spectators on their feet watching as the race wraps up - anticipation. Venetian Way wins.
In Denver, the U.S. Open, masters' winner Arnold Palmer stages one of the greatest rallies ever seen on the links. Palmer sinks an incredible putt. U.S.G.A. sign w/Palmer and Harney. Man looking through Sport Scope with hat on top. Palmer coming from 7 strokes behind to win the open crown on the last 18 holes. (professional golf tournament) Arnold Palmer sinks a put. CU sign: USGA Open -6 Palmer -4, +1 Harvey +3. 2 more shots of Palmer putting.
DO NOT USE Olympics footage. In the summer Olympics in Rome, Germany's Ingrid Kramer sweeps diving honors, but America s swimmers win more gold medals than all other nations together. John Thomas fails to win the high jump, dashing expectations. In the broad jump, Jesse Owens' 26-year old record is bested at last by Ralph Boston. In the hurdles Lee Calhoun butts the tape to take first place. Otis Davis wins the 400 meters despite a lunge a la Lee Calhoun by Carl Kaufman of Germany. Heroine of the Olympics in Wilma Rudolph of Tennessee, the only winner of three gold medals. Don Bragg sets a new record for the pole vault.
In the World Series, the Pittsburgh Pirates cap one of the wildest October classics in the annals of the game with the sensationally exciting seventh game against the New York Yankees. The score seesaws incredibly until they go into the bottom of the tenth all tied up, and Bill Mazeroski hits a fateful home run to bring Pittsburgh victory. Elevated shot of thousands of spectators in the stands - tilts up to press cameras at top of the stands. Good spectator shots inbetween play Low angle CU Yogi Berra ready to bat. Crowds. Double play ball hops freakishly and hits Yankee Tony Kubek in the throat. (professional baseball) Bill Mazeroski scores the winning run and fans rush the field. Mayhem.
On the gridiron. Scenes show Bill Hagberg of Minnesota, Jim Anderson of Mississippi, the 102 yard touchdown run by Bill Wentz to Ohio State, and college grid's man of the year, Joe Bellino in the army-navy game! (collegiate football)