1963 Tony Bettenhausen 200
The race was the first American Championship Car race won by a rear-engined car. Jim Clark and Team Lotus had finished second at the 1963 Indianapolis 500 after a controversy surrounding the lack of a black flag for winner Parnelli Jones, whose car was leaking oil. Colin Chapman and Team Lotus decided to return to Champ Car competition at Milwaukee and Trenton later in the year. The rear-engined Lotuses dominated practice and qualifying, breaking the track record by over a second. In the race, Clark led all 200 laps and lapped the entire field, save for second place A. J. Foyt. Clark's teammate Dan Gurney finished third, battling a misfire.


1963 Tony Bettenhausen 200
Although a rear-engined car would not win the Indianapolis 500 until 1965, the win signaled a shift in Champ Car design. The last win for a front-engined roadster on a paved track was the opening round of the 1965 season at Phoenix, barely a year and a half after Clark's Milwaukee victory.


1963 Tony Bettenhausen 200, Qualifying
Clark, Gurney, Foyt, and Jones broke the previous qualifying record set in 1961 by Don Branson at 34.09 sec (105.62 mph / 169.94 km/h).


1963 Torneo di Viareggio
The 1963 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.


1963 Torneo di Viareggio, Format
The 16 teams are organized in knockout rounds. The round of 16 are played in two-legs, while the rest of the rounds are single tie.


1963 Toronto Argonauts season
The 1963 Toronto Argonauts finished in fourth place in the Eastern Conference with a 3–11 record and failed to make the playoffs.


1963 Tour de France
The 1963 Tour de France was the 50th instance of that Grand Tour. It took place between 23 June and 14 July, with 21 stages covering a distance of 4,138 km (2,571 mi). Stages 2 and 6 were both two part stages, the first half being a regular stage and the second half being a team or individual time trial.


1963 Tour de France
The Tour organisers were trying to break the dominance of Anquetil, who had won already three Tours, by reducing the time trials length to only 79 km (49 mi), so that the climbing capabilities would be more important.


1963 Tour de France
Nonetheless, the race was won by Anquetil, who was able to stay close to his main rival Federico Bahamontes in the mountains, one time even by faking a mechanical problem in order to get a bicycle that was more suited for the terrain. Bahamontes finished as the second-placed cyclist, but won the mountains classification. The points classification was won by Rik Van Looy.


1963 Tour de France, Teams
The 1963 Tour started with 130 cyclists, divided into 13 teams. The IBAC–Molteni team was a combination of five cyclists from IBAC and five from Molteni, each wearing their own sponsor's jerseys.


1963 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
The main favourite before the race was Jacques Anquetil, at that moment already a three-time winner of the Tour, including the previous two editions. Anquetil had shown good form before the Tour, as he won Paris–Nice, the Dauphiné Libéré, the Critérium National and the 1963 Vuelta a España. Anquetil was not sure if he would ride the Tour until a few days before the start; he had been infected by a tapeworm, and was advised not to start. Anquetil had chosen to ride races with tough climbs, to prepare for the 1963 Tour de France.


1963 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
The major competitor was thought to be Raymond Poulidor, who had shown his capabilities in the 1962 Tour de France.


1963 Tour de France, Route and stages
The 1963 Tour de France started on 23 June in Paris, and had one rest day, in Aurillac. The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,770 m (9,090 ft) at the summit of the Col de l'Iseran mountain pass on stage 16.


1963 Tour de France, Race overview
In the first stage, four men escaped. One of them was Federico Bahamontes, the winner of the 1959 Tour de France. Bahamontes was known as a climber, so it was unexpected that he gained time on a flat stage. The third stage saw another successful breakaway. Seamus Elliott won the stage, and became the new leader in the race; it was the first time that an Irish cyclist led the Tour de France.


1963 Tour de France, Race overview
The time trial in stage 6b was won by Anquetil, with Poulidor in second place. Gilbert Desmet became the new leader. The situation did not change much in the next stages until the stages in the Pyrenees, starting with the tenth stage. Bahamontes lead the first group, but Anquetil was able to stay in that first group, which was a surprise. Anquetil stayed in that first group until the finish, where he outsprinted the rest to win his first mountain stage. In the other two stages in the Pyrenees, Anquetil was able to stay in the first group, lost little time on his competitors, and kept getting closer to Desmet, who was still leading the general classification.


1963 Tour de France, Race overview
The fifteenth stage was the first in the Alps. Bahamontes won this stage, and in the general classification jumped to second place, three seconds ahead of Anquetil. In the sixteenth stage, Fernando Manzaneque won, eight minutes ahead of Bahamontes and Anquetil who stayed together. Because Desmet was further behind, Bahamontes became the new leader of the race, with a margin of three seconds on Anquetil.


1963 Tour de France, Race overview
The race was decided in the seventeenth stage. The rules in 1963 did not allow cyclists to change bicycles, unless there was a mechanical problem. Anquetil's team director, Raphaël Géminiani, thought that Anquetil could use a different bicycle on the ascent of the Col de la Forclaz, so he advised Anquetil to fake a mechanical problem on the start of that climb; Géminiani cut through a gear cable, and claimed that it snapped. Anquetil could thus use a light bicycle with lower gears, especially suited for a climb, which gave him an advantage on his competitors.


1963 Tour de France, Race overview
Bahamontes reached the top of the Forclaz first, and only Anquetil had been able to follow him. After the top, Anquetil got his regular bicycle back, and rode to the finish together with Bahamontes. Anquetil won the sprint, and the bonus time made him the new leader. As expected, Anquetil won some more time in the time trial in stage 19, and became the winner of the 1963 Tour.


1963 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There were several classifications in the 1963 Tour de France, two of them awarding jerseys to their leaders. The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour.


1963 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
Additionally, there was a points classification. In the points classification, cyclists got points for finishing among the best in a stage finish. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and was identified with a green jersey.


1963 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There was also a mountains classification. The organisation had categorised some climbs as either first, second, third, or fourth-category; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reached the top of these climbs first, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, but was not identified with a jersey.


1963 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
For the team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. The riders in the team that led this classification wore yellow caps. Carpano and the combined team IBAC-Molteni did not finish with three or more cyclists, so they were not included in the team classification.


1963 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
In addition, there was a combativity award, in which a jury composed of journalists gave points after each stage to the cyclist they considered most combative. The split stages each had a combined winner. At the conclusion of the Tour, Rik Van Looy won the overall super-combativity award, also decided by journalists.


1963 Tour de France, Aftermath
Anquetil, who had been criticized that he just a time trial specialist, showed that he was also capable of mountain stages, and everybody agreed that Anquetil was the best cyclist overall. Anquetil was the first cyclist to win a fourth Tour de France. In the next year, he set the record sharper by winning his fifth Tour. The French public had expected much from Raymond Poulidor, but Poulidor only made the eighth place. Normally, Poulidor was more popular than Anquetil even when Anquetil won, but this time Poulidor received "contemptuous whistles" at the finish in the Parc des Princes, while Anquetil received a standing ovation.


1963 Tour de France, Aftermath
After Anquetil and Géminiani had shown that the rule that bicycle changes were not allowed was easily circumvented by faking a mechanical problem, this rule was removed for the next year.


1963 Tour de Hongrie
The 1963 Tour de Hongrie was the 19th edition of the Tour de Hongrie cycle race and was held from 17 to 22 June 1963. The race started and finished in Szombathely. The race was won by András Mészáros.


1963 Tour de Romandie
The 1963 Tour de Romandie was the 17th edition of the Tour de Romandie cycle race and was held from 9 May to 12 May 1963. The race started and finished in Geneva. The race was won by Willy Bocklant.


1963 Tour de Suisse
The 1963 Tour de Suisse was the 27th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 13 June to 19 June 1963. The race started in Zürich and finished in Bremgarten. The race was won by Giuseppe Fezzardi of the Cynar team.


1963 Tour of Flanders
The 47th Tour of Flanders cycling classic was held on Sunday, 31 March 1963. It was won by Belgian Noël Foré in a three-man sprint with Frans Melckenbeeck and Tom Simpson. Foré set a new record speed average of 40.683 km/h (25.279 mph). 35 of 127 riders finished.


1963 Tour of Flanders, Route
The race started in Ghent and finished in Gentbrugge – covering 249 km (155 mi). There were six categorized climbs:


1963 Transkei legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Transkei on 20 November 1963. Although the Democratic Party won a majority of the elected seats, the Transkei National Independence Party emerged as the largest party in the Legislative Assembly after the appointment of a further 64 members.


1963 Transkei legislative election, Electoral system
The Legislative Assembly had a total of 109 seats, 45 of which were elected and 64 of which were reserved for directly and indirectly elected chiefs.


1963 Tulane Green Wave football team
The 1963 Tulane Green Wave football team was an American football team that represented Tulane University during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Southeastern Conference. In their second year under head coach Tommy O'Boyle, the team compiled a 1–8–1 record.


1963 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team
The 1963 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. In their third year under head coach Glenn Dobbs, the Golden Hurricane compiled a 5–5 record (2–2 against Missouri Valley Conference opponents) and finished in third place in the conference. The team's statistical leaders included Jerry Rhome with 1,909 passing yards, Hank Dorsch with 211 rushing yards, and John Simmons with 543 receiving yards. Under Glenn Dobbs, Tulsa led the nation in passing for five straight years from 1962 to 1966.


1963 Turkey Day 200
The 1963 Turkey Day 200 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on November 22, 1962, at Tar Heel Speedway in Randleman, North Carolina.


1963 Turkey Day 200
The transition to purpose-built racecars began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade. Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s.


1963 Turkey Day 200, Race report
This race, while being in the 1963 season happened after November 1, 1962. This put the racing event in the 1963 points season. Since 2001, NASCAR has never organized a race this late in the year for its NASCAR Cup Series because NASCAR now mandates a 12-week silly season. While the focus may have been on the Pettys it was another fast family in control for much of the race as Glen Wood dominated in the Wood Brothers entry until the famous #21 Ford blew an engine. With Wood on the sidelines, Jim Paschal and his hometown Petty Enterprise Plymouth sped to victory.


1963 Turkey Day 200, Race report
Richard Petty's first home race didn't go well as the future King fell out with a transmission failure. Still it was a great day for the family as in addition to Paschal's win Richard's mechanic brother Maurice Petty, racing with Lee's famous #42, turned in a top-5 run.


1963 Turkey Day 200, Race report
Being a ¼-mile track, the entire race only spanned 50 miles (80 km). Three thousand and five hundred people attended this live racing event which ended in one hour and three minutes. Twenty-three American drivers and one Canadian driver (Jim Bray) participated in this race. Notable speeds were: 47.544 miles per hour (76.515 km/h) for the average speed and 51.933 miles per hour (83.578 km/h) for the pole position speeds. These slow speeds would not look out of place on a modern-day American Interstate highway.


1963 Turkey Day 200, Race report
The winner (Jim Paschal who raced for Petty Enterprises) would receive $575 in winnings ($4,802 when considering inflation) while the last place driver (Ned Jarrett) would walk away with $100 in prize winnings ($835 when considering inflation). Glen Wood would lead the most laps (173) before finishing the race in 15th place due to an engine problem.


1963 Turkey Day 200, Race report
Herman Beam would be his own crew chief during the race while Leonard Wood was Glen Wood's crew chief.


1963 Turkey Day 200, Race report, Finishing order
† signifies that the driver is known to be deceased * Driver failed to finish race


1963 Turkish local elections
Turkey held local elections on 17 November 1963. In the elections, both the mayors and the local parliaments (Turkish: İl Genel Meclisi) were elected. The figures presented below are the results of the local parliament elections.


1963 U.S. National Championships (tennis)
The 1963 U.S. National Championships (now known as the US Open) was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills in New York City, United States. The tournament ran from 28 August until 8 September. It was the 83rd staging of the U.S. National Championships, and the fourth Grand Slam tennis event of 1963.


1963 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles
Chuck McKinley /  Dennis Ralston defeated  Rafael Osuna /  Antonio Palafox 9–7, 4–6, 5–7, 6–3, 11–9


1963 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles
Robyn Ebbern /  Margaret Smith defeated  Maria Bueno /  Darlene Hard, 4–6, 10–8, 6–3


1963 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed doubles
Margaret Smith /  Ken Fletcher defeated  Judy Tegart /  Ed Rubinoff 3–6, 8–6, 6–2


1963 U.S. National Championships – Men's Singles
Rafael Osuna defeated Frank Froehling 7–5, 6–4, 6–2 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1963 U.S. National Championships.


1963 U.S. National Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Rafael Osuna is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1963 U.S. National Championships – Women's Singles
Fourth-seeded Maria Bueno defeated first-seeded Margaret Smith 7–5, 6–4 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1963 U.S. National Championships.


1963 U.S. National Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Maria Bueno is the champion; others show in brackets the round in which they were eliminated.


1963 U.S. Open (golf)
The 1963 U.S. Open was the 63rd U.S. Open, held June 20–23 at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb southwest of Boston. Julius Boros won his second U.S. Open title in an 18-hole Sunday playoff with Jacky Cupit and Arnold Palmer. The U.S. Open returned to The Country Club for the first time in fifty years to celebrate the golden anniversary of Francis Ouimet's playoff victory in 1913. Boros won eleven years earlier in 1952, and won a third major at age 48 at the PGA Championship in 1968.


1963 U.S. Open (golf)
At 43, Boros was the second-oldest winner in U.S. Open history, and only a month younger than Ted Ray when he won the 1920 Open. For Palmer, it was the second consecutive year he lost in a playoff at the Open.


1963 U.S. Open (golf)
High winds made scoring conditions extremely difficult throughout the entire week, especially on Saturday during the final two rounds, when gusts approached 50 mph (80 km/h). The winning score of 293 remains the highest in post-World War II U.S. Open history, while the 77.4 final-round scoring average set a record for the post-war era, later broken in 1972 at Pebble Beach. For the first time in U.S. Open history, no amateur made the cut.


1963 U.S. Open (golf)
Defending champion and Masters winner Jack Nicklaus missed the cut by a stroke; his next missed cut at the U.S. Open came 22 years later in 1985. He rebounded in the next two majors in 1963, missing the playoff at the Open Championship in England by a stroke for third place and won the PGA Championship in Dallas the following week.


1963 U.S. Open (golf)
This U.S. Open was played the week after Father's Day.


1963 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round
Cupit owned the 54-hole lead by a stroke over Palmer, Tony Lema, and Walter Burkemo, with Boros in a group three behind. Boros recorded two birdies on his final three holes to post a 72 and 293 total. Cupit still held the lead until a double-bogey on the 17th dropped him into a tie with Boros and Palmer. He then missed a 12-foot (3.7 m) putt for birdie at the last that would have won the championship.


1963 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Playoff
Boros took command early in the playoff and had a three-stroke lead at the turn. Palmer took himself out of contention with a triple-bogey at 11, while Cupit bogeyed the same hole. Boros cruised to the win from there, carding a 70 to Cupit's 73 and Palmer's 76.


1963 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Playoff
First prize was $16,000, and each of the three playoff participants received a bonus of $1,500 from the playoff gate receipts.


1963 U.S. Women's Open
The 1963 U.S. Women's Open was the 18th U.S. Women's Open, held July 18–20at Kenwood Country Club, northeast of Cincinnati, Ohio.


1963 U.S. Women's Open
Mary Mills, age 23, won her only U.S. Women's Open title, three strokes ahead of runners-up Louise Suggs and Sandra Haynie. It was the first of nine victories on the LPGA Tour for Mills and the first of her three major titles.


1963 U.S. Women's Open
Retired tennis pro Althea Gibson, age 35, became the first African American to play in a U.S. Women's Open. She shot 78 and 82 for 160 (+14) and missed the cut by a stroke. Three-time champion Mickey Wright did not play, opting for dental work, which she had originally planned to have done the previous week. Wright returned in 1964 to win her fourth title. Defending champion Murle Lindstrom tied for seventh.


1963 U.S. Women's Open
The championship was played the same week as the PGA Championship, which concluded on Sunday.


1963 UC Davis Aggies football team
The 1963 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis in the 1963 NCAA College Division football season. UC Davis competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The UC Davis sports teams were commonly called the “Cal Aggies” from 1924 until the mid 1970s.


1963 UC Davis Aggies football team
The Aggies were led by head coach Will Lotter in the eighth and final year at UC Davis. They played home games at Toomey Field. The Aggies finished the season in a three-way tie as co-champion of the FWC, with a record of six wins, two losses and one tie (6–2–1, 3–1–1 FWC). They outscored their opponents 151–74 for the 1963 season.


1963 UC Davis Aggies football team
In eight seasons under coach Lotter, the Aggies compiled a record of 26–43–3 (13–26–1 FWC), for an overall winning percentage of .382. They won or shared the conference championship in two of his seasons, 1956 and 1963.


1963 UC Davis Aggies football team, NFL Draft
No UC Davis Aggies players were selected in the 1964 NFL Draft.


1963 UC Riverside Highlanders football team
The 1963 UC Riverside Highlanders football team represented UC Riverside during the 1963 NCAA College Division football season. The Highlanders competed as an independent in 1963.


1963 UC Riverside Highlanders football team
UC Riverside was led by fifth-year head coach Jim Whitley. They played home games at UCR Athletic Field in Riverside, California. The Highlanders finished the season with a record of one win, seven losses and one tie (1–7–1). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 48–214 for the season, which included being shut out in six of the nine games.


1963 UC Riverside Highlanders football team, Team players in the NFL
No UC Riverside players were selected in the 1964 NFL Draft.


1963 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team
The 1963 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team represented University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) during the 1963 NCAA College Division football season.


1963 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team
UCSB competed as an Independent in 1963, after having been a member of the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) for the previous 24 years. The team was led by first-year head coach "Cactus Jack" Curtice, and played home games at La Playa Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of four wins and five losses (4–5).


1963 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team, Team players in the NFL
No Santa Barbara Gaucho players were selected in the 1964 NFL Draft.


1963 UCI Road World Championships
The 1963 UCI Road World Championships took place on 11 August 1963 in Renaix, Belgium.


1963 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
The men's road race at the 1963 UCI Road World Championships was the 30th edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 11 August 1963 in Ronse, Belgium. The race was won by Benoni Beheyt of Belgium.


1963 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 1963 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Rocourt, Belgium from 1 to 7 August 1963. Nine events were contested, 7 for men (3 for professionals, 4 for amateurs) and 2 for women.


1963 UCLA Bruins football team
The 1963 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. In their sixth year under head coach Bill Barnes, the Bruins compiled a 2–8 record (2–2 AAWU) and finished in third place in the Athletic Association of Western Universities.


1963 UCLA Bruins football team
UCLA's offensive leaders in 1963 were quarterback Larry Zeno with 1,036 passing yards, Jim Colletto with 179 rushing yards, and Kurt Altenberg with 419 receiving yards.


1963 UEFA European Under-18 Championship
The UEFA European Under-18 Championship 1963 Final Tournament was held in England. It was considered to be the 16th International Youth Football Tournament.


1963 UEFA European Under-18 Championship
It was hosted by England as part of the Football Association's centenary celebration.


1963 UEFA European Under-18 Championship, Qualification
A match between  East Germany and  Czechoslovakia (3-0) may have been related to the qualifying stage as well.


1963 UEFA European Under-18 Championship, Teams
East Germany also received a Bye for the qualifying stage but withdrew before the start of the tournament. After this, a Bye was given to both  Czechoslovakia and the  Soviet Union who were drawn against each other for the qualifying stage.


1963 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
The 1963 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 37th year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.


1963 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
The Greyhound Afternoon Service was established whereby tracks supplied afternoon racing for the larger bookmaking clients. However the track promoters made a request for a guaranteed payment for the off course rights from all bookmakers taking bets from their stadium. Negotiations would continually take place between the stadiums, the National Greyhound Racing Society (NGRS) and the bookmakers. The problems had been ongoing since the introduction of the Betting and Gaming Act 1960. Clapton Stadiums Ltd owners of Clapton Stadium, Slough and Reading scrapped evening starting times in an attempt to disrupt the betting in bookmaker’s shops. Tracks racing during the afternoon had already implemented this procedure. A further development resulted in the tracks ending the annual £100,000 agreement with the off course bookmakers to provide forecast and tricast tote odds. The bookmakers announced that they will provide their own odds based on starting prices.


1963 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
Figures released by the NGRS showed a further decline in attendances and totalisator turnover, the first six months of 1963 showed attendances at 5,827,064 with turnover at £24,910,749 from 61 member tracks.


1963 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
We'll See was voted Greyhound of the Year at the Silver Greyhound Awards, in the Great Room at the Grosvenor House Hotel. The brindle dog beat Cranog Bet to the crown, the latter had to settle for being named bitch of the year.


1963 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks
News broke at the beginning of the year that London Stadiums Ltd had future plans to redevelop Wandsworth Stadium into a shopping centre. Racing came to an end at Somerton Park in Newport, Wales, Clydeholm in Clydebank, Banister Court Stadium in Southampton and Hanley Greyhound Stadium. Two tracks opened at the Taff's Well and Milton Keynes.


1963 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
Alfred Critchley died on 9 February. Clapton hosted Pinewood Studios as they shot scenes for a new film starring Rita Tushingham and Mike Sarne called A Place to Go.


1963 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
The Merit Puppy Championship held at Wimbledon was renamed and rebranded with more prize money, it would be called the Juvenile. The Gold Collar at Catford Stadium was won by Music Guest from Lucky Boy Boy, Irish Greyhound Derby champion Shanes Legacy finished last in the final and apart from winning the 1,000 Guineas would not live up to the expectations of his owner since his purchase from Ireland in 1962.


1963 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
The 1962 greyhound of the year Dromin Glory had a Welsh Greyhound Derby campaign to forget, he weighed in too heavy in a trial and therefore another needed to be organised at short notice. He arrived late for kennelling for the second attempt, missing the deadline and as a result was not allowed to compete in the first round.


1963 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
Leeds defeated Brighton in the final of the News of the World National Intertrack Championship.


1963 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
Irish Greyhound Derby finalists both won major events in Ireland, Melody Wonder won the national Sprint held at the Dunmore Stadium and Powerstown Proper won the Laurels at Cork Greyhound Stadium.


1963 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
In addition to the 10% government tax on off-course bets the Irish government introduce a further tax of 2.5% on all bets on-course and off-course.


1963 UMass Redmen football team
The 1963 UMass Redmen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1963 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the Yankee Conference. The team was coached by Vic Fusia and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. The Redmen defense was stifling all year long, as they surrendered only one touchdown through the entire season. Outscoring their opponents 265–12, UMass finished undefeated for the third in team history and the most recent time to date. The one imperfection on the team's record was a 0–0 tie on the road against in-state rival Harvard. UMass finished the season with a record of 8–0–1 overall and 5–0 in conference play.


1963 US Figure Skating Championships
The 1963 U.S. Figure Skating Championships was held at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California from January 7-10, 1963. Medals were awarded in three colors: gold (first), silver (second), and bronze (third) in four disciplines – men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – across three levels: senior, junior, and novice (singles only).


1963 US Figure Skating Championships
The event determined the U.S. team for the 1963 World Championships.


1963 US Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Men
Thomas Litz put on a "truly magnificent" performance, receiving the only standing ovation of the three days of competition. He performed one of the most difficult jumping routines ever seen in an American championship meet. His stunning performance, which had the crowd of about 2400 calling for more, unseated the defending champion Monty Hoyt, who finished third. Litz, the 1962 junior champion, finished third in the compulsory figures  before winning the free with two triple jumps. Litz told reporters "When I heard that applause I wanted to run up into the stands and shake hands with everyone in the place. I'm sure glad I picked tonight to do my best ever."


1963 US Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Ladies
Lorraine Hanlon won the compulsory figures, followed by Karen Howland]].


1963 US Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Pairs
Siblings Judianne Fotheringill / Jerry Fotheringill won their first title. Defending champion with a previous partner, Pieter Kollen finished third with new partner Patti Gustafson. Previous partner Dorothyann Nelson retired from competition last year to skate with the Ice Follies.


1963 US Figure Skating Championships, Junior results, Ladies
Though she finished last in the field of 10, 18-year old Maidie Sullivan from Colorado Springs made skating history when she became the first to successfully complete a triple jump in US ladies competition.


1963 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The 1963 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships men's competition took place between June 21-23 at Public School Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri. The women's division held their championships separately at the Welcome Stadium in Dayton, Ohio. The Public School Stadium was one of the first stadiums to sport an all-weather track made of asphalt and rubber.


1963 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The Marathon championships were run in October at the Yonkers Marathon.


1963 USAC Championship Car season
The 1963 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 12 races, beginning in Trenton, New Jersey on April 21 and concluding in Phoenix, Arizona on November 17. There was also one non-championship event at Pikes Peak, Colorado. The USAC National Champion  was A. J. Foyt, and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Parnelli Jones. Jim Clark's win at Milwaukee in August marked the first win for a rear-engined car in Champ Car competition.


1963 USC Trojans baseball team
The 1963 USC Trojans baseball team represented the University of Southern California in the 1963 NCAA University Division baseball season. The team was coached Rod Dedeaux in his 22nd season.


1963 USC Trojans baseball team
The Trojans won the College World Series, defeating the Arizona Wildcats in the championship game.


1963 USC Trojans football team
The 1963 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. In their fourth year under head coach John McKay, the Trojans compiled a 7–3 record (3–1 against conference opponents), finished in second place in the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU or Big 6), and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 207 to 114.


1963 USC Trojans football team
Quarterback Pete Beathard was one of the team's two captains and led the team, completing 66 of 140 passes for 944 yards with five touchdowns and seven interceptions. Mike Garrett led the team in rushing with 128 carries for 833 yards. Team co-captain Willie Brown led the team in receiving with 34 catches for 448 yards.


1963 USSR Chess Championship
The 1963 Soviet Chess Championship was the 31st edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 23 November to 27 December 1963 in Leningrad. The tournament was won by Leonid Stein. The final were preceded by semifinals events at Almaty, Kharkov, Moscow and Sverdlovsk.


1963 Uber Cup
The 1963 Uber Cup was the third edition of the Uber Cup, the women's badminton competition. The tournament took place in the 1962-63 badminton season, 11 countries competed.


1963 Uber Cup
Defending champions the United States hosted the final and claimed victory over England — their third consecutive victory, largely on the strength of Judy Devlin once again winning all three of her matches.


1963 Uber Cup, Teams
As the defending champion, United States automatically advanced to the Challenge round.


1963 Ukrainian Class B
The 1963 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR (Class B) was the 33rd season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Ukrainian Class B. It was the thirteenth in the Ukrainian Class B.


1963 Ukrainian Class B
The 1963 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR (Class B) was won by SKA Odessa.


1963 Ukrainian Class B
There was reorganization of professional football competitions with Class A being expanded by adding extra tier and all Class B competitions including in Ukraine were moved to the third tier. Due to reorganization 35 out of 39 teams were relegated to lower tier by continuing to compete in the Ukrainian Class B competitions.


1963 Ukrainian Class B, Format
The Ukrainian Republican competition consisted of two zones of 20 clubs. Upon conclusion of the league format each club qualified for a playoff with another club that placed the same place in the other group. The pair of the first placed clubs was sort of a republican championship playoff. The playoffs consisted of two legs - home and away. Note teams were relegated or withdrawn and only one was promoted to the Subgroup A (the First League).


1963 Ukrainian Class B, Play-offs
Each team played against the same ranking team from the other zone. Only the two top pairs that really mattered concerning promotion are listed next. No teams were relegated. SKA Odessa obtained the promotion from the Ukraine zone. They were classified as the Republican champions and were promoted to the Inter-Republican level, the Class A.


1963 United Nations Security Council election
The 1963 United Nations Security Council election was held on 18 October, 30 October, and 1 November during the eighteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected four members through consultation of the president, as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1964.


1963 United Nations Security Council election, Rules
The Security Council had eleven seats, filled by five permanent members and six non-permanent members. Each year, half of the non-permanent members are elected for two-year terms. A sitting member may not immediately run for re-election. Candidates must reach a required two-thirds majority to be elected to the United Nations Security Council.


1963 United Nations Security Council election, Result
At this time, the United Nations had 113 member states (for a timeline of UN membership, see Enlargement of the United Nations). There were three open seats, as the Philippines, Ghana, and Venezuela were retiring. Mr. Dashtseren (Mongolia) and Mr. Lynch-Shyllon (Sierra Leone) served as tellers. The first ballot was unrestricted, with seven candidacies for three seats. The Ivory Coast and Bolivia were elected to permanent seats and Czechoslovakia and Malaysia moved on to a restricted second round of voting. After three unclear ballots, the council reverted to an unrestricted ballot. As no nation received a majority, the elections were suspended for another day. The General Assemby reconvened on 25 October 1963, and held five further ballots, and again on November 1, when a third member was elected.


1963 United States Grand Prix
The 1963 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 6, 1963, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 8 of 10 in both the 1963 World Championship of Drivers and the 1963 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 110-lap race was won by BRM driver Graham Hill after he started from pole position. His teammate Richie Ginther finished second and Lotus driver Jim Clark came in third.


1963 United States Grand Prix, Summary
By the time the teams – including Ferrari for the first time at Watkins Glen – came to America, Jim Clark had wrapped up the Driver's Championship with five wins in seven races. At The Glen, however, the day belonged to Graham Hill and BRM, as Hill started from the pole and won by more than half a minute over American teammate Richie Ginther. Hill owed much of his success to Clark's dead battery on the dummy grid (used for the first time in F1), and the failure of John Surtees's Ferrari engine while leading with 30 laps to go.


1963 United States Grand Prix, Summary
In the first hour of qualifying on Friday, Clark's Lotus equalled his lap record of 1:15.0 from the previous year. Hill and Surtees were right on the Scot's pace, as well, and all three were soon under 1:14. At one point, Hill's BRM jumped out of gear on the back straight and left the track, skipping through the woods without hitting any trees, but at the end of the session, he was fastest at 1:13.4. Jack Brabham was glad just to be at the circuit, after he was unable to find a rental car or a taxi at the airport in Elmira, twenty miles (32 km) away, and ended up hitchhiking to the track with his baggage and racing gear!


1963 United States Grand Prix, Summary
On Saturday, Canadian Peter Broeker's Stebro (running a four-cylinder Ford with 110 horsepower (82 kW) compared to almost 200 for the Climax and BRM V8's) dumped oil all around the circuit. The session was stopped for 30 minutes to clean up, but conditions were never again good enough for anyone to better their Friday times, so the top six were Graham Hill, Clark, Surtees, Ginther, and the Brabhams of Sir Jack and Dan Gurney. In addition to Ginther and Gurney, the grid contained five other Americans – Masten Gregory, Phil Hill, Jim Hall, Hap Sharp and Rodger Ward – the most ever in a Formula One field, as well as Mexican Pedro Rodríguez, who was making his Formula One debut.


1963 United States Grand Prix, Summary
Race day was bright and clear with a record crowd of nearly 60,000. A dummy grid was used for the first time in a Championship Grand Prix, and when the field moved forward to the starting grid, Clark's Lotus remained still. At the flag, Hill led Ginther, Surtees, Gurney, Tony Maggs, Gregory and Brabham up the hill and through the Esses. The Lotus crew discovered that Clark's battery was dead, and by the time they replaced it, Broeker's Stebro, trailing the field, was already into his second lap.


1963 United States Grand Prix, Summary
Surtees made the first move, getting by Ginther to split the BRM's, and then, on lap seven, taking the lead from Hill. Gurney followed him and took second briefly, before surrendering the spot back to Hill. By lap 15, Clark was up into 14th place with his engine still not sounding entirely right.


1963 United States Grand Prix, Summary
Hill began pushing Surtees on lap 30. He got by to take the lead after shadowing for two laps, gave it back, took it again two laps later, and finally surrendered it again, settling into the Ferrari's slipstream. On lap 43, Gurney suddenly slowed and then retired from third place with fuel starvation and a chassis failure, moving Clark up to seventh.


1963 United States Grand Prix, Summary
After trailing Surtees closely for some time, Hill lost his tow when his anti-roll bar came loose and the BRM's handling changed abruptly. Fighting severe understeer, he began throwing the car into turns to slide the rear end around, flinging stones off the curbs and losing ground to the leading Ferrari. On lap 82, with no threat to his lead, Surtees's engine lost power, and he cruised into the pits to retire. "I was just hanging on to him," Hill said afterward. "He's a very tricky driver. He was gaining a half-second each lap on me until he went out. I think it was a good measure of the difference in our two cars." Suddenly in the lead again, with only Ginther on the same lap, Hill backed off and set his sights on bringing the car home.


1963 United States Grand Prix, Summary
The Englishman drove under the flag 34 seconds ahead of teammate Ginther, repeating BRM's season-opening sweep at Monaco. New World Champion Clark took the final podium spot when he overtook Brabham, whose engine had been misfiring for much of the race. It was Hill's first American win, but one that he would repeat in 1964 and 1965.


1963 United States House of Representatives elections
Six members of the United States House of Representatives were elected in special elections in 1963.


1963 United States Road Racing Championship
The 1963 United States Road Racing Championship season was the first season of the Sports Car Club of America's United States Road Racing Championship. It began February 3, 1963, and ended September 22, 1963, after eight races. Separate races for sportscars and GTs were held at four rounds, while three rounds were combined races, and one round (Daytona) was for sportscars only. Bob Holbert won the season championship, splitting time between the under-two liter sportscar and GT classes.


1963 United States Tri-Service missile and drone designation system
On June 27, 1963, the U.S. Department of Defense established a designation system for guided missiles and drones jointly used by all the United States armed services. It superseded the separate designation systems the Air Force and Navy had for designating US guided missiles and drones, but also a short-lived interim USAF system for guided missiles and rockets.


1963 United States Tri-Service missile and drone designation system, Explanation
The basic designation of every guided missile is based in a set of letters, which are in sequence. The sequence indicates the following:


1963 United States Tri-Service missile and drone designation system, Explanation
The design or project number follows the basic designator. In turn, the number may be followed by consecutive letters, representing modifications.


1963 United States Tri-Service missile and drone designation system, Explanation
In addition, most guided missiles have names, such as Harpoon, Tomahawk, Seasparrow, etc. These names are retained regardless of subsequent modifications to the missile.


1963 United States Tri-Service missile and drone designation system, Prefixes
An X preceding the first letter indicates an experimental weapon, a Y preceding the first letter means the weapon is a prototype, and a Z preceding the first letter indicates a design in the planning phase.


1963 United States gubernatorial elections
United States gubernatorial elections were held in November 1963, in two states. Kentucky and Mississippi hold their gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, preceding the United States presidential election year.


1963 Uruguayan Primera División, Overview
It was contested by 10 teams, and Nacional won the championship.


1963 Utah Redskins football team
The 1963 Utah Redskins football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. Head coach Ray Nagel led the team to a 2–2 mark in the WAC and 4–6 overall.


1963 Utah State Aggies football team
The 1963 Utah State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah State University as an independent during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. In their first season under head coach Tony Knap, the Aggies compiled an 8–2 record and outscored all opponents by a total of 318 to 99.


1963 Utah State Aggies football team
The team's statistical leaders included Bill Munson with 1,699 passing yards, Larry Campbell with 585 rushing yards, Roger Foulk with 229 receiving yards, and Darrell Steele with 52 points scored.


1963 VFA season
The 1963 Victorian Football Association season was the 82nd season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the third season of its second division. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Moorabbin Football Club, after it defeated Sandringham in the Grand Final on 21 September by 64 points; it was Moorabbin's second and last VFA premiership, before its suspension from the Association prior to the following season. The Division 2 premiership was won by Preston; it was the club's first premiership in either division since joining the Association.


1963 VFA season, Association Membership
On 12 December 1962, the Geelong West Football Club was admitted to Division 2 of the Association. Geelong West had a long and successful history prior to World War II in the Geelong & District Football League, then since 1946 in the higher standard Ballarat Football League; but, after 1962 they were encouraged by leave by the Ballarat clubs, who did not like the lower home crowds and the long travelling distances that came with the Geelong-based team in their league; so, Geelong West sought out the VFA, which was prepared to admit the club. Geelong West played its games at the Western Oval in Church Street. It was the first time an Association club had been based in Geelong since 1927. Geelong West's admission brought the size of the Association to nineteen clubs, the highest to that stage in Association history.


1963 VFA season, Association Membership
The Association had already released its Division 2 fixture for 1963, so Geelong West's admission forced the fixture to be re-drawn. The Association intentionally fixtured Geelong West to play home on weekends when the Geelong VFL team was playing away, to maximise potential attendances.


1963 VFA season, Scheduling of finals
The Division 1 Grand Final was scheduled for the Saturday prior to the VFL Grand Final; this was a break from the established tradition, which had every Grand Final since 1939 scheduled for the weekend after the VFL Grand Final.


1963 VFA season, Scheduling of finals
This change of scheduling also forced a change of venue from the St Kilda Cricket Ground, which had hosted all VFA finals since 1945: because the VFA first semi-final now clashed with the final round of VFL home-and-home matches, the St Kilda Cricket Ground would still be in active use as the home ground of the VFL's St Kilda Football Club. As such, the entire Division 1 finals series was played at North Port Oval.


1963 VFA season, Scheduling of finals
In Division 2, the Board of Management agreed that all finals were to be played on Sundays at Toorak Park; this was different from previous years, when the finals were played on Sunday only with the agreement of the clubs involved. Waverley was one of four clubs opposed to Sunday football, and it appealed to the Association to play its finals on Saturdays, but its requests were rejected.


1963 VFA season, Scheduling of finals
The promotion-relegation challenge match between the Division 2 runners-up and the 9th placed team in Division 1 was abandoned from the 1963 season. As such, only the Division 2 premier was promoted, and only the Division 1 wooden spooner was relegated.


1963 VFA season, Division 1
The Division 1 home-and-home season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system.


1963 VFA season, Division 2
The Division 2 home-and-home season was played over 16 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system.


1963 VFL Grand Final
The 1963 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the    Geelong Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 5 October 1963. It was the 67th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1963 VFL season. The match, attended by 101,209 spectators, was won by Geelong by a margin of 49 points, marking that club's sixth premiership victory.


1963 VFL Grand Final, Background
Hawthorn were minor premiers as a result of their superior percentage, as both clubs had finished the home and away season with 13 wins and a draw.


1963 VFL Grand Final, Background
Geelong was contesting its eighth VFL Grand final and chasing its sixth premiership, having previously contested in 1953 and last won in 1952. The Hawks were contesting their second VFL Grand final, having beaten Footscray to win their maiden premiership in 1961. For the Cats, this was the third consecutive game they were playing against Hawthorn, having met at Glenferrie Oval in the final round of the home-and-away season, then in the Second Semi-final two weeks later.


1963 VFL Grand Final, Background
After the Cats' important win at Glenferrie, coach Bob Davis, when asked by a reporter what he thought of Hawthorn, called them "the roughest, dirtiest side that [he] had ever seen" and that "Any time they want to play football, we'll give them a hiding". Davis later admitted he didn't care what he said at the time, and Hawthorn coach John Kennedy Sr. took offence at Davis' comments about dirty play, stating that while his team certainly played a vigorous brand of football, he never asked players to deliberately "fix up" opposition players.


1963 VFL season
The 1963 Victorian Football League season was the 67th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.


1963 VFL season, Premiership season
In 1963, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.


1963 VFL season, Premiership season
Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.


1963 VFL season, Premiership season
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1963 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page–McIntyre system.


1963 VFL season, Premiership season, Alterations to 1963 match fixtures
Persistent rain throughout the week and further heavy downpours on the Friday (12 July) caused the postponement of all Round 11 matches until the following Saturday (20 July). All remaining home-and-away and finals matches were played a week later than had been scheduled.


1963 VFL season, Premiership season, Round 18
Going into the final home-and-away round, Hawthorn was the only team with a guaranteed finals berth. It was down to Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and Essendon to fight it out for the remaining three play-off positions.


1963 VFL season, Consolation Night Series Competition
The night series were held under the floodlights at Lake Oval, South Melbourne, for the teams (5th to 12th on ladder) out of the finals at the end of the season.


1963 VIR National Cup
The 1963 VIR National Cup was a sports car race held April 28, 1963, at Virginia International Raceway. It was the second event of the thirteenth season of the Sports Car Club of America's National Sports Car Championship.


1963 VIR National Cup, Results
Cars were separated into fourteen classes based on engine displacement and production numbers. The first race; for cars in F, G, and H Production and H Modified; was won by Jack Crusoe in an F Production Alfa Romeo Giulietta. The second race; for cars in C, D, and E Production; was won by Paul Richards in a C Production Fiat-Abarth 1000. The third race; for G Modified, Formula Junior, and Formula Three cars; was won by Charlie Hayes in a Formula Junior Elva.


1963 VPI Gobblers football team
The 1963 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1963 NCAA University Division football season.


1963 VPI Gobblers football team, Players
The following players were members of the 1963 football team according to the roster published in the 1964 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.


1963 Valdostan regional election
The Valdostan regional election of 1963 took place on 27 October 1963.


1963 Valdostan regional election
Proportional representation became the standard electoral system in Italy, and it was adopted in Aosta Valley for the first time. The result was political instability, while political corruption arose.


1963 Valdostan regional election
The alliance of 1959 was initially confirmed, but in 1966 the Socialist Party changed side and allied with the Christian Democracy.


1963 Valley State Matadors football team
The 1963 Valley State Matadors football team represented Valley State during the 1963 NCAA College Division football season.


1963 Valley State Matadors football team
Valley State competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The Matadors were led by second-year head coach Sam Winningham. They played home games at Monroe High in Sepulveda, CA. They finished the season with a record of two wins and six losses (2–6, 0–3 CCAA).


1963 Valley State Matadors football team, Team players in the NFL
No Valley State players were selected in the 1964 NFL Draft.


1963 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 1963 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. The Commodores were led by head coach John Green in his first season and finished the season with a record of one win, seven losses and two ties (1–7–2 overall, 0–5–2 in the SEC).


1963 Venezuelan Primera División season
The 1963 season of the Venezuelan Primera División, the top category of Venezuelan football, was played by 6 teams. The national champions were Deportivo Italia.


1963 Venezuelan general election
General elections were held in Venezuela on 1 December 1963. The presidential elections were won by Raúl Leoni of the Democratic Action political party, who received 32.8% of the vote. Leoni's party won 66 of the 179 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 22 of the 47 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was 92.3% in the presidential election and 90.8% in the Congressional elections.


1963 Vermont Catamounts football team
The 1963 Vermont Catamounts football team was an American football team that represented  the University of Vermont in the Yankee Conference during the 1963 NCAA College Division football season. In their second year, under head coach Bob Clifford, the team compiled a 6–2 record.


1963 Villanova Wildcats football team
The 1963 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. The head coach was Alexander F. Bell, coaching his fourth season with the Wildcats. The team played their home games at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pennsylvania.


1963 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 1963 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. The Cavaliers were led by third-year head coach Bill Elias and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in last.


1963 Volta a Catalunya
The 1963 Volta a Catalunya was the 43rd edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 8 September to 15 September 1963. The race started in Montjuïc and finished in Barcelona. The race was won by Joseph Novales.


1963 Vuelta a España
The 18th Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 1 May to 15 May 1963. It consisted of 15 stages covering a total of 2,442 km (1,517 mi), and was won by Jacques Anquetil of the St. Raphael-Gitane cycling team.


1963 Vuelta a España
Not only did Anquetil complete his Grand Tour treble, this also marked the first time in history a rider won two Grand Tours in the same calendar year for his team sponsor (since most Grand Tours from the 1930s until the early 1960s were contested in national teams). Bas Maliepaard won the points classification and Julio Jiménez won the mountains classification.


1963 WANFL season
The 1963 WANFL season was the 79th season of the various incarnations of the Western Australian National Football League.


1963 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1963 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 4th conference playoff in league history. The tournament was played between March 7 and March 9, 1963. All games were played at home team campus sites. By reaching the title game both Denver and North Dakota were invited to participate in the 1963 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1963 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The top four teams in the WCHA, based upon the conference regular season standings, were eligible for the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 4 . In the first round the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds were matched in two-game series where the school that scored the higher number of goals was declared the winner. The winners advanced to the title game which was to be played at the higher remaining seed's home venue.


1963 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PCT = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


1963 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
The 1963 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. In its fourth season under head coach Bill Hildebrand, the team compiled a 1–9 record and finished in seventh place in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).


1963 Walker Cup
The 1963 Walker Cup, the 19th Walker Cup Match, was played on 24 and 25 May 1963, at Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland. The event was won by the United States 12 to 8 with 4 matches halved. This was the first Walker Cup in which 18-hole matches were played.


1963 Walker Cup
Great Britain and Ireland took a 6 to 3 lead on the first day after Billy Joe Patton was the only singles winner for the United States. However, the United States won all four foursomes matches on the second morning and five of the singles  in the afternoon.


1963 Walker Cup, Format
The format for play on Friday and Saturday was the same. There were four matches of foursomes in the morning and eight singles matches in the afternoon. In all, 24 matches were played.


1963 Walker Cup, Format
Each of the 24 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 18th hole extra holes were not played. The team with most points won the competition. If the two teams were tied, the previous winner would retain the trophy.


1963 Walker Cup, Teams
Ten players for the United States and Great Britain & Ireland participated in the event plus one non-playing captain for each team.


1963 Washington Huskies football team
The 1963 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. Under seventh-year head coach Jim Owens, the team lost their first three games, compiled a 6–4 record in the regular season, and won the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU, a.k.a. "Big Six") at 4–1.


1963 Washington Huskies football team
On New Year's Day at the Rose Bowl, the Huskies led early but lost 17–7 to third-ranked Illinois. It was the third Rose Bowl for Washington under Owens and their first loss; they had won consecutive games in January 1960 and 1961. The Huskies did not return to Pasadena for fourteen years, a victory in January 1978 in head coach Don James' third season.


1963 Washington Huskies football team
Halfback Dave Kopay and center John Stupey were the team captains. In its eleven games, Washington outscored its opponents 183 to 141.


1963 Washington Huskies football team, Professional football draft selections
Two University of Washington Huskies were selected in the 1964 NFL Draft, which lasted twenty rounds with 280 selections. One Husky was selected in the 1964 AFL Draft, which lasted twenty six rounds with 208 selections.


1963 Washington Redskins season
The 1963 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 32nd season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 27th in Washington, D.C.. The team tried to improve on their 5–7–2 record from 1962 but failed and finished 3-11.


1963 Washington Redskins season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1963 Washington Senators season
The 1963 Washington Senators season involved the Senators finishing 10th in the American League with a record of 56 wins and 106 losses.


1963 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1963 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1963 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1963 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1963 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1963 Washington State Cougars football team
The 1963 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State University in the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. In their eighth and final season under head coach Jim Sutherland, the Cougars compiled a 3–6–1 record (1–1 in AAWU, fourth), and were outscored 160 to 95.


1963 Washington State Cougars football team
The team's statistical leaders included Dave Mathieson with 859 passing yards, Clancy Williams with 523 rushing yards, and Gerry Shaw with 409 receiving yards.


1963 Washington State Cougars football team
Sutherland voluntarily stepped down in December with a year remaining on his contract, and later owned several automobile dealerships in Spokane. He was succeeded at WSU in January 1964 by Bert Clark, an assistant at rival Washington under Jim Owens.


1963 Washington State Cougars football team, NFL Draft
Two Cougars were selected in the 1964 NFL Draft, which was twenty rounds (280 selections).


1963 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
The 1963 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship was the 63rd staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board in 1897.


1963 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
On 15 December 1963, Mount Sion won the championship after a 4-06 to 3–04 defeat of Ballugunner in the final. This was their 18th championship title overall and their first title since 1961.


1963 West Berlin state election
The election to the West Berlin House of Representatives on 17 February 1963 was the first election in Berlin since the construction of the Berlin Wall.


1963 West Berlin state election
The top candidate of the SPD was again the mayor Willy Brandt while the CDU chose deputy mayor Franz Amrehn.


1963 West Berlin state election
The SPD won a major election victory: 61.9% of the vote, a vote increase of 9.3 percentage points, it achieved its second-best result since the end of the second world war. Furthermore, the SPD won all 80 direct constituency seats. Their current coalition partner, the CDU, saw its vote share fall by 8.9 percentage points to 28.8% of the votes. The FDP re-entered parliament after winning 7.9% of the vote.


1963 West Berlin state election
Analysts point to a number of factors as to why the SPD won such a large electoral victory. Many point to Brandt's high energy speeches and appearances in connection to the building of the wall, while many voters saw the CDU's crisis management was unconvincing and was thus punished by the voters. Another factor was that, shortly before the election, Willy Brandt had to cancel a meeting with Soviet Secretary General Khrushchev after coming under pressure from the CDU, some voters blamed the CDU for scuppering chances of reducing tensions with the Soviets.


1963 West Berlin state election
Much like the last election, the SPD had another large majority, this time however Brandt choose not to form a coalition with the CDU, he did however form an SPD-FDP coalition, leaving the CDU in opposition.


1963 West Bromwich by-election
The West Bromwich by-election, 1963 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of West Bromwich in Staffordshire on 4 July 1963. It was won by the Labour Party candidate Maurice Foley.


1963 West Bromwich by-election, Vacancy
The seat had become vacant when the sitting Labour Member of Parliament (MP), John Dugdale had died at the age of 58 on 23 March 1963. He had held the seat since a by-election in 1941.


1963 West Bromwich by-election, Candidates
The Labour Party candidate was 37-year-old Maurice Foley. The Conservative candidate was Mr G. Hawkins, and the Liberal Party — which had not contested the seat since 1929 — fielded N. R. W. Mawle.


1963 West Bromwich by-election, Result
The result was a victory for the Labour candidate, Maurice Foley, who took the seat with a slightly increased share of the vote. He held the seat until his resignation in 1973.


1963 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 1963 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season.


1963 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team
The 1963 Western Kentucky football team represented Western Kentucky State College during the 1963 NCAA College Division football season. The Hilltoppers were led by OVC Coach of the Year Nick Denes, won the Ohio Valley Conference championship, and finished the season undefeated. This team was one of the finest in school history and set a school record for victories. The roster included future NFL players John Mutchler, Dale Lindsey, Jim Burt, and Harold Chambers as well as future NFL coach Joe Bugel. Mutchler was named OVC Defensive Player of the Year.


1963 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team
The Hilltoppers earned a berth in the Tangerine Bowl, where they defeated the Coast Guard Academy 27-0. Western Kentucky quarterback Sharon Miller was named the game's most valuable player. Mutchler, Chambers, Bugel, Jim Burt, Lindsey, and Bobby Westmoreland were named to the All-OVC team, while John Burt, Eddie Crum, Bob Gebhart, Sharon Miller, and Stan Napper were Honorable Mention.


1963 Western Michigan Broncos baseball team
The 1963 Western Michigan Broncos baseball team represented Western Michigan University in the 1963 NCAA University Division baseball season. The Broncos played their home games at Hyames Field. The team was coached by Charlie Maher in his 25th year at Western Michigan.


1963 Western Michigan Broncos baseball team
The Broncos won the District IV playoff to advanced to the College World Series, where they were defeated by the Penn State Nittany Lions.


1963 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The 1963 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. In their seventh and final season under head coach Merle Schlosser, the Broncos compiled a 2–7 record (2–4 against MAC opponents), finished in fifth place in the MAC, and were outscored by their opponents, 201 to 111. The team played its home games at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan.


1963 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The team's statistical leaders included Ken Barnhill with 668 passing yards, George Archer with 397 rushing yards, and Tom Patterson with 269 receiving yards. Halfback Allen Gibbs and end Bill Somerville were the team captains. End Bill Somerville received the team's most outstanding player award.


1963 Western Michigan Broncos football team
At the end of the 1963 season, Schlosser was reportedly hung in effigy twice, and The Holland Evening Sentinel reported that every player had signed a petition seeking his removal. Schlosser was fired as coach on December 28, 1963, and assigned to other duties in the physical education department. The team compiled a record of 28-33-3 in seven seasons under Schlosser.


1963 Western North Carolina 500
The 1963 Western North Carolina 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on August 11, 1963, at Asheville-Weaverville Speedway in Weaverville, North Carolina.


1963 Western North Carolina 500
The transition to purpose-built racecars began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade. Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s.


1963 Western North Carolina 500, Race report
The race took three hours and thirteen minutes to successfully complete; qualifying trials rained out, so Fred Lorenzen got the pole by the luck of the draw. Fred Lorenzen won the race with an average speed of 77.673 miles per hour (125.003 km/h) and defeated Richard Petty by outlapping him once. Five hundred laps were done on an oval track spanning 0.500 miles (0.805 km) in front of 14500 live spectators.


1963 Western North Carolina 500, Race report
Total winnings for this race were $13,765 ($114,953 when adjusted for inflation) while Lorenzen walked away as the biggest cash earner with a $2,550 paycheck ($21,295 when adjusted for inflation). Possum Jones (the last place finisher) came home from the race with a meager $150 ($1,253 when adjusted for inflation) as a result of only completely eight laps of the race due to a fuel leak.


1963 Western North Carolina 500, Race report
A balanced mixture of Ford vehicles in addition to vehicles from the Plymouth, Dodge and Chevrolet brands kept the race interesting for people who were looking to buy a new automobile during the early 1960s. Chrysler's lone entry was with driver Major Melton who had to leave the race after 324 laps due to a problem with his grease seal. A lot of the team owners in the race were wealthy individuals who had the money to cope with the constant traveling expenses that were expected in a NASCAR season.


1963 Western North Carolina 500, Race report
Tommy Irwin would never race in a NASCAR Cup Series race after this one due to his lackluster performance. Constant vibrations in his vehicles forced him off the track after 264 laps; Stewart McKinney was his faithful crew chief. McKinney's crew chief career only lasted throughout 1963 with six good finishes for his stable of five NASCAR drivers. Other crew chiefs involved in the race were Crawford Clements, Frank McMillion, Herb Nab, Herman Beam, and Ray Fox.


1963 Wichita Shockers football team
The 1963 Wichita Shockers football team was an American football team that represented Wichita  University (now known as Wichita State University) as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. In its second season under head coach Marcelino Huerta, the team compiled a 7–2 record (3–1 against conference opponents), won the MVC championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 233 to 117. The team played its home games at Veterans Field, now known as Cessna Stadium.


1963 Wightman Cup
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1963 Wightman Cup
The 1963 Wightman Cup was the 35th edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held at the Cleveland Skating Club in Cleveland, Ohio in the United States.


1963 Wightman Cup, Notable stories
In the second match Billie Jean Moffitt and Christine Truman consumed 36 games in deciding the second set, which Moffitt won 19–17 to conclude the match.


1963 Wightman Cup, Notable stories
In the third match Nancy Richey and Deidre Catt consumed 26 games in a first set eventually won 14–12 by Richey, who went on to win the match.


1963 William & Mary Indians football team
The 1963 William & Mary Indians football team represented William & Mary during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season.


1963 Wimbledon Championships
The 1963 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. It was the 77th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam tennis event of 1963. The tournament which was scheduled from 24 June until 6 July was played in cold and wet weather conditions. Play on the final Saturday was cancelled due to rain and the women's singles, the men's and women's doubles and the mixed doubles finals were concluded on Monday, 8 July. This edition of the tournament saw the introduction of the regulation that player's clothing must be predominantly white.


1963 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Doubles
Rafael Osuna /  Antonio Palafox defeated  Jean-Claude Barclay /  Pierre Darmon, 4–6, 6–2, 6–2, 6–2


1963 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Women's Doubles
Maria Bueno /  Darlene Hard defeated  Robyn Ebbern /  Margaret Smith, 8–6, 9–7


1963 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Mixed Doubles
Ken Fletcher /  Margaret Smith defeated  Bob Hewitt /  Darlene Hard, 11–9, 6–4


1963 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles
Nicholas Kalogeropoulos defeated Ismail El Shafei in the final, 6–4, 6–3 to win the Boys' Singles tennis title at the 1963 Wimbledon Championships.


1963 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles
Monique Salfati defeated Kaye Dening in the final, 6–4, 6–1 to win the Girls' Singles tennis title at the 1963 Wimbledon Championships.


1963 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Bob Hewitt and Fred Stolle were the defending champions, but lost in the third round to Michael Hann and Roger Taylor.


1963 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Rafael Osuna and Antonio Palafox defeated Jean-Claude Barclay and Pierre Darmon in the final, 4–6, 6–2, 6–2, 6–2 to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1963 Wimbledon Championship.


1963 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
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1963 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Chuck McKinley defeated Fred Stolle 9–7, 6–1, 6–4 in the final to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1963 Wimbledon Championships. Rod Laver was the defending champion, but was ineligible to compete after turning professional.


1963 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
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1963 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Neale Fraser and Margaret duPont were the defending champions, but did not compete.


1963 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Ken Fletcher and Margaret Smith defeated Bob Hewitt and Darlene Hard in the final, 11–9, 6–4 to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 1963 Wimbledon Championships.


1963 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles, Seeds
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1963 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Billie Jean Moffitt and Karen Susman were the defending champions, but Susman did not compete as she was expecting her first child. Moffitt partnered with Carole Caldwell but lost in the second round to Deidre Catt and Liz Starkie.


1963 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Maria Bueno and Darlene Hard defeated Robyn Ebbern and Margaret Smith in the final, 8–6, 9–7 to win the Ladies' Doubles tennis title at the 1963 Wimbledon Championships.


1963 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles, Seeds
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1963 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
First-seeded Margaret Smith defeated unseeded Billie Jean Moffitt in the final, 6–3, 6–4 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1963 Wimbledon Championships and completed the career grand slam in singles.


1963 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Karen Susman did not defend her title as she was expecting her first child.


1963 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


1963 Winnipeg municipal election
The 1963 Winnipeg municipal election was held on October 23, 1963 to determine mayors, councillors and school trustees in the City of Winnipeg and its suburban communities. There were also referendum votes in some communities. There was no mayoral election in Winnipeg.


1963 Winnipeg municipal election, Results, Winnipeg
Mark Danzker, David Mulligan and Edith Tennant were elected to Winnipeg City Council for the city's first ward. Lloyd Stinson, Terry Hind and William McGarva were elected for the second ward. Slaw Rebchuk, Joseph Zuken and Donovan Swailes were elected for the third ward.


1963 Winnipeg municipal election, Results, St. Vital
This election was determined by a single transferable ballot. The quota for election on the first ballot was 1,333 votes; Pierce, Hardy, and Winslow were declared elected to two-year terms. At the end of the fourth transfer, Button had 1,385 votes, Brown 1,197 and Smallwood 669. Button was declared elected to a one-year term, replacing the retiring Fred Brennan.


1963 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The 1963 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1963 Big Ten Conference football season.


1963 Women's British Open Squash Championship
The 1963 Women's Open Squash Championships was held at the Lansdowne Club and Royal Aero Club in London from 1–7 December 1962.Heather Blundell won her second title defeating Fran Marshall in a repeat of the 1962 final. The championships were held in December 1962 which formed part of the 1962/1963 season so is classed as the 1963 edition.


1963 Women's European Volleyball Championship
The 1963 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the sixth edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. It was hosted in several cities in Romania from 22 October to 2 November 1963, with the final round held in Constanţa.


1963 Women's European Volleyball Championship, Format
The tournament was played in two different stages. In the first stage, the thirteen participants were divided into four groups (three groups of three teams and one group of four teams). In the second stage, two groups were formed, one containing the winners and runners-up from all first stage groups (eight teams in total) to contest the tournament title. A second group was formed by the remaining five teams which played for position places (9th to 13th). All groups in both stages played a single round-robin format.


1963 Women's Western Open
The 1963 Women's Western Open was contested from June 20–23 at Maple Bluff Country Club. It was the 34th edition of the Women's Western Open.


1963 World 600
The 1963 World 600, the 4th running of the event, was a NASCAR Grand National Series race held on June 2, 1963 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina. Contested over 400 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) speedway, it was the 26th race of the 1963 NASCAR Grand National Series season. Fred Lorenzen of Holman-Moody won the race.


1963 World 600
Paul Clark and Banjo Matthews would depart from NASCAR after the race while Joe Weatherly took the championship lead from Richard Petty.


1963 World 600, Background
Charlotte Motor Speedway is a motorsports complex located in Concord, North Carolina, United States, 13 miles from Charlotte, North Carolina. The complex features a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) quad oval track that hosts NASCAR racing including the prestigious World 600 on Memorial Day weekend and the National 400. The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams located in the Charlotte area. The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI).


1963 World Amateur Snooker Championship
The 1963 World Amateur Snooker Championship was the first edition of the championship that later became known as the IBSF World Snooker Championship. It was played from 27 December 1963 to 4 January 1964 at the Great Eastern Hotel in Calcutta, India, as a round-robin. Five players participated. Gary Owen won all four of his matches and took the title, with Frank Harris finishing in second place. Owen compiled the highest break of the event, 71.


1963 World Archery Championships
The 1963 World Archery Championships was the 22nd edition of the World Archery Championships. The event was held in Helsinki, Finland in July 1963 and was organised by World Archery Federation (FITA). For the third competition running, the United States achieved a clean sweep of the gold medals, although Victoria Cook's victory in the women's competition ahead of Nancy Vonderheide was considered a shock.


1963 World Fencing Championships
The 1963 World Fencing Championships were held in Gdańsk, Poland.


1963 World Figure Skating Championships
The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.


1963 World Figure Skating Championships
The 1963 competitions for men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance took place from February 28 to March 3 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The competition was held in the open-air ice stadium, with events running as late as 1 or 2am, by which time it was very cold. This caused the ice to become hard and brittle, as well as causing discomfort to those in attendance.


1963 World Figure Skating Championships
Perhaps due to the poor ice conditions, the men's competition was marred by many falls. Both the winner Donald McPherson and second-place finisher Alain Calmat fell on triple loop attempts, but neither Manfred Schnelldorfer nor Karol Divín, who had been placed 1-2 after the compulsory figures, performed well in the free skating.


1963 World Figure Skating Championships
Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler won the pair competition, although some questioned whether some of their lifts, including a "triple Axel lift" (an Axel lasso lift with 3.5 rotations), were legal under the ISU rules of the time. The Canadian team of Debbi Wilkes and Guy Revell had to withdraw after Wilkes suffered a head injury in a fall while posing for press photos.


1963 World Figure Skating Championships
Disaster also struck the American dance team Yvonne Littlefield and Peter Betts. They placed 9th in the compulsory dances, but in the free dance Betts's blade came unscrewed from the boot and they were unable to finish their program. Meanwhile, the defending champions Eva Romanová and Pavel Roman came from behind to retain title after being defeated in the compulsory dances by the British team, Linda Shearman and Michael Phillips, who had also defeated the Romans at the European Championships earlier that year.


1963 World Figure Skating Championships
Defending champion Sjoukje Dijkstra also retained her title, building a big lead in the compulsory figures and following it with a good performance in the free skate, in which she now included a double Lutz for the first time. Nicole Hassler, second in the free skate and third overall, had two strong double Axels at the end of her program. The Japanese competitor Miwa Fukuhara, who finished 6th overall, included a triple salchow in her program.


1963 World Modern Pentathlon Championships
The 1963 World Modern Pentathlon Championships were held in Macolin, Switzerland.


1963 World Netball Championships
The 1963 World Netball Championships was the first edition of the INF Netball World Cup, a quadrennial international netball competition. It was held from 2 August to 14 August and in Eastbourne, England. It featured 11 teams. In a round robin style format, Australia won all of their matches and considered the inaugural title holders.


1963 World Netball Championships, Round-Robin
All of the matches were played on British Summer Time.


1963 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
I World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary on 7 and 8 December 1963.


1963 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, Participants
There were 28 competitors from 10 countries - Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland, German Democratic Republic, Romania, Poland, Spain & Yugoslavia.


1963 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, Medal table
There was two routines performed by each gymnast - freehand and with apparatus.


1963 World Series
The 1963 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the Los Angeles Dodgers, with the Dodgers sweeping the Series in four games to capture their second title in five years, and their third in franchise history. Starting pitchers Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, and Johnny Podres, and ace reliever Ron Perranoski combined to give up only four runs in four games. The dominance of the Dodgers pitchers was so complete that at no point in any of the four games did the Yankees have the lead. New York was held to a .171 team batting average, the lowest ever for the Yankees in the post-season.


1963 World Series
This was the first time that the Yankees were swept in a World Series in four straight (the 1922 World Series had one tie).


1963 World Series
Of the Los Angeles Dodgers' four World Series championships since the opening of Dodger Stadium, this was the only one won at Dodger Stadium. Also, of the seven championships from the Dodgers franchise, it remains the only one won at home. Their 2020 title was won as the "home team" albeit as part of the neutral site World Series in Arlington, Texas.


1963 World Series
This series was also the first meeting between teams from New York City and Los Angeles for a major professional sports championship. Seven more such meetings have followed with three more times each in the World Series and the NBA Finals, and the 2014 Stanley Cup Finals.


1963 World Series, Background, Yankees
Despite injuries that limited Mickey Mantle to just 65 games, the Yankees went 104–57 to win their fourth straight American League pennant—this one by 10+1⁄2 games. Catcher Elston Howard (.287 BA, 28 HRs, 85 RBI) won the MVP Award, while Joe Pepitone, Roger Maris, and Tom Tresh also topped the 20 home run mark. Their pitching was anchored by Whitey Ford (24 wins, 2.74 ERA) and Jim Bouton (21 wins, 2.53 ERA).


1963 World Series, Background, Dodgers
The Dodgers' road to the World Series was much more challenging. After blowing a four-game lead with seven to play in 1962, the Dodgers again built a lead in 1963. On August 21, the Dodgers beat the Cardinals 2–1 in 16 innings to take a 7+1⁄2 game lead. When they went to St. Louis for a three-game series on September 16, their lead was one game over the Cardinals, who had won 19 of 20 games. Sports fans around the country were saying how the Dodgers were going to blow it again. But the Dodgers swept the three games from the Cardinals to move four games ahead with nine to play; a 4–1 win over the Mets clinched the pennant in the season's 158th game.


1963 World Series, Summary
NL Los Angeles Dodgers (4) vs. AL New York Yankees (0)


1963 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Sandy Koufax started it off with a record 15-strikeout performance in Game 1 to outduel the Yankees' ace left-hander Whitey Ford. The 15 strikeouts bested fellow Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine's mark in 1953 by one, and would be surpassed by Bob Gibson in 1968 with 17. Koufax also tied a World Series record when he fanned the first five Yankees he faced.


1963 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Clete Boyer was the only Yankees regular not to strike out. Mickey Mantle, Tom Tresh and Tony Kubek each struck out twice, and Bobby Richardson struck out three times—his only three-strikeout game in 1448 regular season or World Series games. Koufax also struck out three pinch-hitters, including Harry Bright to end the game.


1963 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Ford set the Dodgers down in order in the first inning, but got into trouble in the second inning. With one out, right fielder Frank Howard doubled into left center field. A single by first baseman Bill Skowron plated Howard to give the Dodgers a 1–0 lead. Second baseman Dick Tracewski's single preceded a three-run home run by catcher John Roseboro to give the Dodgers a 4–0 lead.


1963 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The Dodgers upped the lead to 5-0 when Skowron singled home Willie Davis with two outs in the third inning against Ford, who went just five innings.


1963 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The Yankees scored twice in the eighth inning when Tony Kubek singled with one out and Tom Tresh homered with two outs to cut the lead to 5–2.


1963 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Willie Davis doubled in two runs in the first inning, former Yankee Bill Skowron homered in the fourth, and Tommy Davis had two triples, including an RBI triple in the eighth to lead the Dodger offense. Yankee starter Al Downing, who would take the loss, went only five innings and charged with three runs. Ralph Terry, in relief, allowed Davis's RBI triple. Dodger manager Walt Alston went with #3 starter Johnny Podres over #2 starter Don Drysdale because he was left-handed and Yankee Stadium was favorable to left-handed pitchers. Podres delivered a six-hitter through 8+1⁄3 innings; ace reliever Ron Perranoski, also a left-hander, got the last two outs and the save, and the Dodgers headed home with 2–0 Series lead.


1963 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Don Drysdale pitched a masterful three-hitter at Dodger Stadium in his complete-game win. Manager Walter Alston called Drysdale's performance "one of the greatest pitched games I ever saw." Jim Bouton, making his first World Series start, dueled Drysdale throughout, permitting only four hits in seven innings for a losing cause. The lone run of the game came in the bottom of the first on a Jim Gilliam walk, a wild pitch and a single by Tommy Davis. Gilliam almost scored again in the eighth off Hal Reniff, but was caught in an attempt to steal third.


1963 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
The final out came on Joe Pepitone's drive that backed Dodger right fielder Ron Fairly up against the bullpen gate to make the catch of a ball that would have been a home run in Yankee Stadium. Tony Kubek had two of the Yankees' three hits, but none of the hits were extra-base hits.


1963 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
Aces were on the mound again in a game 1 rematch between Whitey Ford and Sandy Koufax. This time, it was a pitcher's duel. The Dodgers scored first in the bottom of the fifth on a monumental Frank Howard home run into the upper deck at Dodger Stadium. The Yankees tied it on a Mickey Mantle home run in the top of the seventh. But in the bottom of the inning, Gilliam hit a high hopper to Yankee third baseman Clete Boyer; Boyer leaped to make the grab, and fired an accurate throw to first base.


1963 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
But first baseman Joe Pepitone lost Boyer's peg in the white-shirted crowd background; the ball struck Pepitone in the arm and rolled down the right field line, allowing Gilliam to scamper all the way to third base. He then scored a moment later on Willie Davis' sacrifice fly. Sandy Koufax went on to hold the Yankees for the final two innings for a 2–1 victory and the Dodgers' third world championship. To date, this is the only time the Dodgers have won the deciding game of a World Series at home. (The Dodgers won the 2020 World Series in Game 6 while they were designated as the home team, but the game was played at a neutral site, Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic.)


1963 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
The World Series Most Valuable Player Award went to Sandy Koufax, who started two of the four games and had two complete game victories. When the award was given to Koufax at a luncheon in New York City, he was presented with a new car—while the luncheon was taking place, a New York City police officer put a parking violation ticket on the car's windshield.


1963 World Series, Composite line score
1963 World Series (4–0): Los Angeles Dodgers (N.L.) over New York Yankees (A.L.)


1963 World Series, Composite line score
The Yankees' four runs in the series was, at the time, the second-lowest total in a World Series, as the Philadelphia Athletics had scored only three runs in 1905. The Los Angeles Dodgers would set a new low in 1966, two runs.


1963 World Sportscar Championship
The 1963 World Sportscar Championship season was the 11th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship motor racing. It featured the 1963 International Championship for GT Manufacturers, which was contested in three engine capacity divisions and the 1963 International Trophy for GT Prototypes, which was contested in two engine capacity divisions. The season ran from 17 February 1963 to 14 September 1963 over 22 events.


1963 World Sportscar Championship
This was the first World Sportscar Championship season to include hillclimb and rally events.


1963 World Sportscar Championship, Schedule
Each of the following 22 events counted towards one or more of the FIA titles. All divisions did not compete in all events and some events were open to classes which were not contesting a championship or trophy round.


1963 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1963 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Prague from April 5 to April 14, 1963.


1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
The 1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles was the 27th edition of the men's doubles championship. Chang Shih-Lin and Wang Chih-Liang won the title after defeating Hsu Yin-Sheng and Chuang Tse-Tung in the final by three sets to nil.


1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
The 1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles was the 27th edition of the men's singles championship.


1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
Chuang Tse-Tung defeated Li Fu-Jung in the final, winning three sets to one to secure the title.


1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Team
The 1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (Men's Team) was the 27th edition of the men's team championship.


1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Team
China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5-1 in the final. West Germany and Sweden both won a bronze medal after being eliminated at the semi final stage.


1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles
The 1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles was the 27th edition of the mixed doubles championship.


1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles
Koji Kimura and Kazuko Ito-Yamaizumi defeated Keiichi Miki and Masako Seki in the final by three sets to nil.


1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles
The 1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles was the 26th edition of the women's doubles championship. Kimiyo Matsuzaki and Masako Seki defeated Diane Rowe and Mary Shannon in the final by three sets to one.


1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Singles
The 1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Singles was the 27th edition of the women's singles championship. Kimiyo Matsuzaki defeated Maria Alexandru in the final by three sets to two, to win the title.


1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Team
The 1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (Women's Team) was the 20th edition of the women's team championship.


1963 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Team
Japan won the gold medal and Romania won the silver medal. China and Hungary won bronze medals after reaching the semi-finals.


1963 World Weightlifting Championships
The 1963 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Stockholm, Sweden from September 7 to September 13, 1963. There were 134 men in action from 32 nations.


1963 World Wrestling Championships
The following is the final results of the 1963 World Wrestling Championships. Freestyle competition were held in Sofia, Bulgaria and Greco-Roman competition were held in Helsingborg, Sweden.


1963 Wyoming Cowboys football team
The 1963 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. In their second season under head coach Lloyd Eaton, the Cowboys compiled a 6–4 record (2–3 against conference opponents), finished fifth in the WAC, and outscored opponents by a total of 191 to 152. Mack Balls and Tom Delaney were the team captains.


1963 Yale Bulldogs football team
The 1963 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach John Pont, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished fourth in the Ivy League with a 4–3 record, 6–3 overall. The November 23 game against Harvard was postponed to November 30 due to the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22.