November 5 is the date of two historic wins for Duke football, 34 years apart, very different contexts, very different games. But November 5, 1960 and November 5, 1994 were huge wins for Duke.
Bill Murray was in his 10th season at the helm of the Duke program in 1960. But Duke was coming off a 4-6 1959 season, the program’s first losing season since 1946.
The primary reason was an outmoded, predictable, run-heavy offense. Duke only completed 53 passes in 1959 and ended the season with a 50-0 loss to North Carolina, at home, on national television, no less.
Murray went back to the drawing board and borrowed Army’s lonesome end offense.
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