1967–68 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason, Players lost in Expansion Draft
The following Maple Leafs were lost to various franchises in the Expansion Draft.


1967–68 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Transactions
The Maple Leafs were involved in the following transactions during the 1967–68 season.


1967–68 Tranmere Rovers F.C. season
In 1967–68, centre forward George Yardley starred as Tranmere Rovers F.C. reached the FA Cup fifth round. Newly promoted Tranmere lost their first three games and future England star Roy McFarland was sold to Derby County. Results improved with Yardley scoring four goals in a 4–1 win over Shrewsbury, then scoring hat-tricks against Colchester United and Swindon Town.


1967–68 Tranmere Rovers F.C. season
George Hudson also scored a hat-trick in Tranmere's 5–1 win over Rochdale in the FA Cup first round; the team went on to beat Bradford Park Avenue 3–2, Huddersfield Town 2–1 and Coventry City 2–0, before losing 2–0 to Everton in a fifth round tie watched by 61,982 at Goodison Park.


1967–68 Tweede Divisie
The Dutch Tweede Divisie in the 1967–68 season was contested by 20 teams. FC Wageningen won the championship and would be promoted to the Eerste Divisie along with two other teams.


1967–68 Tweede Divisie, Promotion play-off
Owing to the second-, third-, and fourth-place finishers obtaining an equal number of points, a promotion play-off needed to be held. Two teams would be promoted to the Eerste Divisie.


1967–68 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team
The 1967–68 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team represented the University of California, Irvine during the 1967–68 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. The Anteaters were led by first year head coach Dick Davis and played their home games at Campus Hall. They were invited to the 1968 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament where they lost to the Nevada Southern Rebels in the regional finals. The anteaters finished the season with a record of 20–8.


1967–68 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team, Previous Season
The 1966–67 Anteaters finished with a record of 15–11 under second year coach Danny Rogers. Danny Rogers resigned at the end of the season and frosh coach Dick Davis was promoted to the position of head coach.


1967–68 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team
The 1967–68 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won a second consecutive NCAA National Championship, the fourth in five years under head coach John Wooden, with a win over North Carolina.


1967–68 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team
UCLA's 47-game winning streak came to an end in January when they were beaten by Houston and All-American Elvin Hayes in the Astrodome 71–69; the game was known as the Game of the Century. The Bruins avenged the loss in a rematch with Houston in the NCAA Final Four, by beating the Cougars 101–69 to become the only team to win consecutive NCAA championships twice.


1967–68 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Season Summary
This team ushered in a new era of college hoops when it played and lost to Houston in a regular-season game at Houston Astrodome that was seen by a national television audience. The Bruins avenged the only loss in the Final Four, thrashing the Cougars behind Lew Alcindor’s 19 points and 18 rebounds. "Big Lew" was even more dominant in the title game, with 34 points and 16 boards in a win over North Carolina. UCLA limited Houston's Elvin Hayes, who was averaging 37.7 points per game but was held to only 10. Bruins coach John Wooden credited his assistant, Jerry Norman, for devising the diamond-and-one defense that contained Hayes.


1967–68 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Players
Lew Alcindor would suffer the first major injury of his athletic career. He suffered a scratched left cornea on January 12, 1968, in a game against the California Golden Bears. He got struck by Ted Henderson of Cal in a rebound battle. He would miss the next two games against Stanford and Portland. This happened right before the game against the University of Houston.


1967–68 UE Lleida season
The 1967–68 season was the 29th season in UE Lleida's existence, and their 2nd year in Segunda División after 1966 promotion.


1967–68 United States network television schedule
The following is the 1967–68 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1967 through August 1968. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1966–67 season.


1967–68 United States network television schedule
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.


1967–68 United States network television schedule
National Educational Television (NET), the network predecessor to PBS, introduced its first live, in-pattern weekly series in November, 1967, PBL (an acronym for Public Broadcast Laboratory), which was cleared in a simultaneous 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT Sunday time-slot on the majority of NET stations. In the first season the series offered usually two-hour episodes, in the second season (1968–69) episodes usually ran for 90 minutes, after a 150-minute premiere on November 5, 1967. The series was a mix of filmed segments and live interviews, discussion panels and other performance.


1967–68 United States network television schedule, Sunday
NOTE: On NBC, Animal Kingdom — renamed Animal World beginning with its August 11, 1968, broadcast — aired from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. from June 16, 1968, to September 1968.


1967–68 United States network television schedule, Wednesday
Note: CBS decided in September to replace Dundee and the Culhane in December with The Jonathan Winters Show. The Avengers replaced Custer in January 1968.


1967–68 United States network television schedule, Thursday
Note: Good Company, an interview show hosted by F. Lee Bailey, did so poorly in the Nielsen ratings that ABC decided not to bother replacing it, temporarily returning its time period to their affiliates.


1967–68 United States network television schedule, By network, NBC
Note: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.


1967–68 United States network television schedule (daytime)
The 1967–68 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1967 to August 1968.


1967–68 United States network television schedule (daytime)
Talk shows are highlighted in  yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold, children's programs are light purple and sports programs are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.


1967–68 United States network television schedule (daytime)
Note: This is the first full season in which all the three networks broadcast most of their weekday schedules in color.


1967–68 United States network television schedule (daytime)
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1967–68 United States network television schedule (daytime), Monday-Friday
NOTE: On CBS, both Search for Tomorrow and Guiding Light expanded from 15 to 30 minutes on Monday September 9, 1968. They were the last 2 15 minute soap operas airing on television, ending a 22-season era of 15 minute soap operas which had begun with the first ever soap opera on Television called "Faraway Hill" on the DuMONT Network in 1946. As a result of those expansions, (The) Guiding Light was moved to 2:30 PM resulting in Art Linkletter's House Party in being pushed forward to 4:00 PM.


1967–68 United States network television schedule (daytime), Monday-Friday
Also, both The Edge of Night and The Secret Storm were moved to 3:00 for "EDGE" & 3:30 PM for "Storm" respectively. As a result of this scheduling shuffle the program at CBS, "To Tell The TRUTH" aired its last broadcast on Friday September 6, 1968. Otherwise, the remainder stayed as is.


1967–68 United States network television schedule (late night)
These are the late night Monday-Friday schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning September 1967. All times are Eastern/Pacific.


1967–68 United States network television schedule (late night)
Talk/Variety shows are highlighted in yellow, Local News & Programs are highlighted in white.


1967–68 WCHL season
The 1967–68 WCJHL season was the second season of the Western Canada Junior Hockey League (WCJHL). The league adopted its new name after being known as the Canadian Major Junior Hockey League in its first season. Eleven teams completed a 60 game season, with the Estevan Bruins winning the President's Cup.


1967–68 WCHL season
The league would drop the "Junior" from its name the following season, operating as the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) through to the completion of the 1977–78 WCHL season, renamed the next season as the Western Hockey League.


1967–68 WCHL season, League notes
The WCJHL added four new teams for its second season: the Flin Flon Bombers, Winnipeg Jets, Brandon Wheat Kings and Swift Current Broncos.


1967–68 WCHL season, Regular season, Scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes


1967–68 WCHL season, All-star game
The 1967–68 WCJHL all-star game was held in Estevan, Saskatchewan, with the WCJHL All-stars defeating the Estevan Bruins 8–7 before a crowd of 2500.


1967–68 WHL season
The 1967–68 WHL season was the sixteenth season of the Western Hockey League. Five teams played a 72-game schedule, and the Seattle Totems were the Lester Patrick Cup champions, defeating the Portland Buckaroos four games to one in the final series. The Los Angeles Blades ceased operations, when the Los Angeles Kings joined the National Hockey League as an expansion team.


1967–68 WHL season, Playoffs
The Seattle Totems defeated the Portland Buckaroos 4 games to 1 to win the Lester Patrick Cup.


1967–68 WIHL season
1967–68 was the 21st season of the Western International Hockey League.


1967–68 WIHL season, Playoffs, Final (best of 7)
The Spokane Jets advanced to the 1967-68 Western Canada Allan Cup Playoffs.


1967–68 Washington Britannica season
The 1967–68 season of the Washington Britannica was their first season in the American Soccer League, and the club's first season in professional soccer. The club was created in 1963 at the amateur level and fielded a team under the same name. During their initial professional year, the team earned second place in the Southern Division. The following year, the club folded the team and renamed themselves, fielding a new team for the 1968 season, the Washington Darts.


1967–68 Washington Huskies men's basketball team
The 1967–68 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Washington for the 1967–68 NCAA college basketball season. Led by fifth-year head coach Mac Duckworth, the Huskies were members of the Athletic Association of Western Universities (Pacific-8) and played their home games on campus at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Washington.


1967–68 Washington Huskies men's basketball team
The Huskies were 12–14 overall in the regular season and 4–10 in conference play, seventh in the standings.


1967–68 Washington Huskies men's basketball team
Duckworth resigned on March 19, and Tex Winter was hired away from Kansas State the following week.


1967–68 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team
The 1967–68 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team represented Washington State University for the 1967–68 college basketball season. Led by tenth-year head coach Marv Harshman, the Cougars were members of the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU, Pac-8) and played their home games on campus at Bohler Gymnasium in Pullman, Washington.


1967–68 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team
The Cougars were 16–9 overall in the regular season and 8–6 in conference play, third in the standings.


1967–68 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team
The 1967–68 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team represented Weber State College during the 1967–68 NCAA University Division basketball season. Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Wildcats were led by eighth-year head coach Dick Motta and played their home games on campus at Wildcat Gym in Ogden, Utah. They were 21–5 in the regular season and 12–3 in conference play.


1967–68 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team
Weber State won the Big Sky title and gained the conference's first-ever berth in the 23-team NCAA Tournament. In the West regional at nearby Salt Lake City, the Wildcats fell by eleven points to New Mexico State.


1967–68 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team
Motta left in late May to become head coach of the NBA's Chicago Bulls, and assistant Phil Johnson was promoted to head coach of the Wildcats.


1967–68 Welsh Cup
The 1967–68 FAW Welsh Cup is the 81st season of the annual knockout tournament for competitive football teams in Wales.


1967–68 Welsh Cup, Fifth round
Ten winners from the Fourth round and six new clubs.


1967–68 West Midlands (Regional) League
The 1967–68 West Midlands (Regional) League season was the 68th in the history of the West Midlands (Regional) League, an English association football competition for semi-professional and amateur teams based in the West Midlands county, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and southern Staffordshire.


1967–68 West Midlands (Regional) League, Premier Division
The Premier Division featured 21 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with one new club:


1967–68 Western Football League
The 1967–68 season was the 66th in the history of the Western Football League.


1967–68 Western Football League
The champions for the first time in their history were Bridgwater Town.


1967–68 Western Football League, Final table
The league remained at 21 clubs after Exeter City Reserves and Weymouth Reserves left. Two new clubs joined:


1967–68 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team
The 1967–1968 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin–Madison. The head coach was John Erickson, coaching his ninth season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the UW Fieldhouse in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.


1967–68 Yorkshire Cup
The 1967–68 Yorkshire Cup was the sixtieth occasion on which the  Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.


1967–68 Yorkshire Cup
Hull Kingston Rovers won the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by the score of 9-6


1967–68 Yorkshire Cup
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 16,729 and receipts were £5,515


1967–68 Yorkshire Cup
This final was a repeat of the 1920-21 final, in the only other final, to date, to be contested by the two clubs, and in which  Hull Kingston Rovers also defeated local neighbours and fierce rivals Hull F.C. in a closely contested match. In 1920 the  score was 2-0; this time it was almost as close.


1967–68 Yorkshire Cup
This is also the  second consecutive year in which Hull Kingston Rovers had won the trophy


1967–68 Yorkshire Cup, Background
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the  same at sixteen.


1967–68 Yorkshire Cup, Background
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.


1967–68 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and results, Final, Teams and scorers
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points


1967–68 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments
1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match played by Bramley at the new stadium, McLaren Field


1967–68 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments
2 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was  40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.


1967–68 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar
The Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from  the  county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from  outside the  county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden.


1967–68 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar
The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars)


1967–68 Yorkshire Football League
The 1967–68 Yorkshire Football League was the 42nd season in the history of the Yorkshire Football League, a football competition in England.


1967–68 Yorkshire Football League, Division One
Division One featured 13 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with four new clubs, promoted from Division Two:


1967–68 Yorkshire Football League, Division Two
Division Two featured twelve clubs which competed in the previous season, along with five new clubs.


1967–68 Yugoslav Cup
The 1967–68 Yugoslav Cup was the 21st season of the top football knockout competition in SFR Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Cup (Serbo-Croatian: Kup Jugoslavije), also known as the "Marshal Tito Cup" (Kup Maršala Tita), since its establishment in 1946.


1967–68 Yugoslav Cup, Round of 16
In the following tables winning teams are marked in bold; teams from outside top level are marked in italic script.


1967–68 Yugoslav First Basketball League
The 1967–68 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 24th season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League. The season ended with KK Zadar winning the league championship, ahead of KK Olimpija.


1967–68 Yugoslav First Basketball League
The season represents a milestone in the history of basketball in Yugoslavia as the beginning of a new era that saw the sport being played entirely indoors on hardwood floor surfaces as opposed to outdoors on a variety of surfaces as had been the practice previously. The change enabled the league to switch to a schedule that begins during autumn and ends in spring as opposed to the previous practice of playing within the same calendar year, usually between April and October.


1967–68 Yugoslav First Basketball League
Since most Yugoslav teams didn't yet possess basketball-specific indoor facilities of their own, they had to make do with hosting their home games in community-owned makeshift venues or in case of three clubs – playing outside of their city.


1967–68 Yugoslav First Basketball League
The four Belgrade clubs – Red Star, Partizan, OKK, and Radnički – played their home games at the various Belgrade Fair halls (including the biggest one: Hall 1), Zagreb's Lokomotiva played at the Zagreb Police's Fire Hall, while certain clubs had to play in entirely different cities: defending champion KK Zadar played most of its home games of the season in Split, Čačak's Borac played their home games in Zrenjanin, and Sarajevo's newly promoted Mlada Bosna played in Zenica.


1967–68 Yugoslav First Basketball League, Notable events, Opening day
The season began on Saturday, 11 November 1967 – only six days after the previous season ended on 5 November 1967 – with the opening game in Ljubljana's Topniška Street Hall pitting the home team KD Slovan versus the visiting Red Star Belgrade. Despite being the underdogs, the home team won 79–78.


1967–68 Yugoslav First League
The 1967–68 Yugoslav First League season was the 22nd season of the First Federal League (Serbo-Croatian: Prva savezna liga), the top level association football league of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. Sixteen teams contested the competition, with Red Star winning their eighth national title.


1967–68 Yugoslav First League, Teams
At the end of the previous season Sutjeska and Čelik were relegated. They were replaced by Proleter Zrenjanin and Maribor.


1967–68 Yugoslav First League, League table
No team was relegated to Second League at the end of this season in order to increase the number of First League participating teams to 18 beginning with the 1968–69 campaign.


1967–68 Yugoslav Ice Hockey League season
The 1967–68 Yugoslav Ice Hockey League season was the 26th season of the Yugoslav Ice Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Yugoslavia. Eight teams participated in the league, and Jesenice have won the championship.


1967–68 Yugoslav Second League
The 1967–68 Yugoslav Second League season was the 22nd season of the Second Federal League (Serbo-Croatian: Druga savezna liga), the second level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. The league was contested in two regional groups (West Division and East Division), with 18 clubs each. There were no teams relegated at the end of the season, as the league changed its format and from following season was divided in four groups with 16 clubs each.


1967–68 Yugoslav Second League, West Division, Teams
A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including fourteen sides from the 1966–67 season, one club relegated from the 1966–67 Yugoslav First League and three sides promoted from the third tier leagues played in the 1966–67 season. The league was contested in a double round robin format, with each club playing every other club twice, for a total of 34 rounds. Two points were awarded for wins and one point for draws.


1967–68 Yugoslav Second League, West Division, Teams
Čelik were relegated from the 1966–67 Yugoslav First League after finishing in the 16th place of the league table. The three clubs promoted to the second level were Belišće, Rudar Ljubija and RNK Split.


1967–68 Yugoslav Second League, East Division, Teams
A total of eighteen teams contested the league, including fourteen sides from the 1966–67 season, one club relegated from the 1966–67 Yugoslav First League and three sides promoted from the third tier leagues played in the 1966–67 season. The league was contested in a double round robin format, with each club playing every other club twice, for a total of 34 rounds. Two points were awarded for wins and one point for draws.


1967–68 Yugoslav Second League, East Division, Teams
Sutjeska were relegated from the 1966–67 Yugoslav First League after finishing in the 15th place of the league table. The three clubs promoted to the second level were Bregalnica Štip, Sloga Kraljevo and Srem.


1967–68 ice hockey Bundesliga season
The 1967–68 Ice hockey Bundesliga season was the 10th season of the Ice hockey Bundesliga, the top level of ice hockey in Germany. 10 teams participated in the league, and EV Fussen won the championship. Krefelder EV won the DEV-Pokal.


1967–68 in Belgian football
The 1967–68 season was the 65th season of competitive football in Belgium. RSC Anderlechtois won their 14th and 5th consecutive Division I title. For the first time ever, a club would win 5 consecutive Belgian championships. RSC Anderlechtois entered the 1967–68 European Champion Clubs' Cup as Belgian title holder and Standard Liège the 1967–68 European Cup Winners' Cup as the Cup holder. RFC Brugeois (2nd), RFC Liégeois (3rd) and R Antwerp FC (5th) all played the 1967–68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. RFC Brugeois won the Belgian Cup final against R Beerschot AC (1-1 after extra time, 8–6 on penalties). The Belgium national football team ended their 1968 UEFA Euro qualification campaign at the 2nd place of Group 7 behind France and thus did not qualify for the second round. They also started their 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign with a win against Finland.


1967–68 in Belgian football, Overview
At the end of the season, R Antwerp FC and OC Charleroi were relegated to Division II and were replaced by ARA La Gantoise and RU Saint-Gilloise from Division II. The bottom 2 clubs in Division II (KRC Mechelen and RC Tirlemont) were relegated to Division III, to be replaced by KFC Turnhout and RCS Brugeois from Division III. The bottom club of each Division III league (KS Houthalen, R Stade Waremmien FC, RAA Louviéroise and SV Oudenaarde) were relegated to Promotion, to be replaced by KSC Menen, KSC Maccabi Voetbal Antwerp, RCS La Forestoise and FC Witgoor Sport Dessel from Promotion.


1967–68 in Belgian football, European competitions
RSC Anderlechtois beat Karl-Marx-Stadt of East Germany in the first round of the 1967–68 European Champion Clubs' Cup (won 3–1 away, 2–1 at home) but were eliminated in the second round by Sparta Prague of Czechoslovakia (lost 2–3 away, drew 3–3 at home).


1967–68 in Belgian football, European competitions
Standard Liège defeated Altay SK of Turkey in the first round of the 1967–68 European Cup Winners' Cup (won 3–2 away, drew 0–0 at home). In the second round, Standard eliminated Aberdeen FC of Scotland (won 3–0 at home, lost 0–2 away). In the quarter-finals they lost to Milan AC of Italy (both legs were drawn 1-1, the second after extra time, but the Italians won a play-off game 2–0.


1967–68 in Belgian football, European competitions
Three Belgian clubs entered the 1967–68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: in the first round, RFC Liégeois beat PAOK FC of Greece (won 2–0 away, 3–2 at home), but R Antwerp FC lost to Göztepe AŞ (lost 1–2 at home, drew 0–0 away) and RFC Brugeois lost to Sporting of Portugal (drew 0–0 at home, lost 1–2 away). RFC Liégeois then lost in the second round to Dundee FC of Scotland (lost 1–3 away, 1–4 at home).


1967–68 in English football
The 1967–68 season was the 88th season of competitive football in England. Defending First Division champions, Manchester United, became the first English team to win the European Cup, while the First Division title went to their cross city rivals City. West Bromwich Albion lifted the FA Cup this season, for the fifth time in their history. Leeds United won their first two major trophies when they lifted the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and Football League Cup at the expense of an Arsenal side who had not played at Wembley for 16 years.


1967–68 in English football, Honours
Notes. Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour.


1967–68 in English football, FA Cup
The 1968 FA Cup Final was won by West Bromwich Albion who beat Everton 1–0 in extra time with a goal from Jeff Astle. It was Albion's fifth FA Cup success.


1967–68 in English football, League Cup
Leeds United beat Arsenal 1–0 in the final of the League Cup to win the competition for the first time.


1967–68 in English football, Football League, First Division
For the first time since 1937, Manchester City won the First Division, finishing two points clear of their local rivals Manchester United. Fulham finished in last place and were relegated along with Sheffield United. Coventry City, under Noel Cantwell escaped relegation by one point and would go on to stay in the top division until their eventual relegation at the end of the 2000–01 season.


1967–68 in English football, Football League, First Division
Manchester United's George Best and Ron Davies of Southampton finished as Division One's joint-top scorers with 28 goals apiece. Best was awarded the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year, as well as the European Footballer of the Year award.


1967–68 in English football, Football League, Second Division
Bill McGarry's Ipswich Town team won the Second Division by one point from Queens Park Rangers, with both teams promoted. Blackpool finished third on goal average and so missed out. Rotherham United and bottom club Plymouth Argyle were both relegated to the Third Division.


1967–68 in English football, Football League, Third Division
In the Third Division, Oxford United won their first divisional title and achieved what was then their highest ever finish in only their sixth season as a league club. Runners-up Bury joined them in promotion. Grimsby Town, Colchester United and Scunthorpe United were relegated, although the biggest story concerned bottom placed Peterborough United who were docked 19 points for offering irregular bonuses to their players and so finished bottom. Had the points been restored the club would have finished in the top half. As a result of the ruling Mansfield Town escaped relegation.


1967–68 in English football, Football League, Fourth Division
Luton Town won the Fourth Division and were promoted along with Barnsley, Hartlepools United and Crewe Alexandra. The bottom four clubs were forced to apply to re-election to the Football League as per usual; more unusually however, Port Vale were also made to apply for re-election, as a result of financial irregularities. In the end, all five clubs were re-elected.


1967–68 in English football, European football
Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup when they beat Benfica 4–1 after extra time at Wembley Stadium with goals from Bobby Charlton (2), George Best and Brian Kidd. Manager Matt Busby was knighted that year for his achievements. A double triumph was secured by Leeds United when they won the Inter Cities Fairs Cup by beating Ferencváros 1–0 on aggregate in the final, which was not completed until September 1968.


1967–68 in Scottish football
The 1967–68 season was the 95th season of competitive football in Scotland and the 71st season of Scottish league football.


1967–68 snooker season
The 1967–68 snooker season, the last season before the modern era of snooker, was a series of snooker tournaments played between July 1967 and June 1968. The following table outlines the results for the season's events.


1967–68 snooker season, New professionals
The following players turned professional during the season: Gary Owen and Ray Reardon. Billiards and Snooker magazine reported in June 1968 that Alex Higgins had turned professional, but in October 1968 he was competing as an amateur.


1968
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1968th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 968th  year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th  year of the 20th century, and the  9th   year of the 1960s decade.


1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.


1968 (album)
1968 is the seventh studio album by French singer France Gall, released in January 1968 on Philips Records. Released during the decline of the yé-yé era, the album features a psychedelic sound influenced by the Beatles' Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.


1968 (film)
1968 is a 2018 historical-sports docudrama film directed by Tassos Boulmetis.


1968 (film), Plot
April 4th, 1968. The Panathenaic Stadium (then Olympic Stadium of Athens) is abuzz, with thousands of people gathered and millions listening through their radios. The FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup final between AEK B.C. – Slavia VŠ Praha has just begun and is attended by 80,000 spectators, the Guinness World Record attendance for a basketball event.


1968 (film), Plot
A girl in love is dreaming of her wedding day, while the future husband becomes more desperate with every Greek ball going through the hoop. An elderly husband and wife remember the home they left behind. A young communist prisoner cheers from his jail cell and a PROPO betting shop becomes the place where old and new wounds resurface.


1968 (film), Plot
Years before this night, three Constantinopolitans seeing Greek refugees from Constantinople arriving in Athens as part of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey following the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) decided to create an athletic union, eventually named AEK, that will tell their story. At the end of this night, Greek history will have changed forever.


1968 (film), Release
The film was released in cinemas on January 25, 2018 by Feelgood Entertainment and opened number one at the Greek box office.


1968 (film), Release
The film went to gross $853,512 at the Greek box office, making it the 24th highest grossing 2018 film in Greece.


1968 1. divisjon
The 1968 1. divisjon was the 24th completed season of top division football in Norway.


1968 1. divisjon, Overview
It was contested by 10 teams, and Lyn from Oslo won the championship, their second title. Lyn's 28 points was at the time a record for most points in a season, one more than Vålerengen achieved in the 1965 season. Frigg and Vålerengen were relegated to the 1969 2. divisjon.


1968 1. divisjon, Overview
Odd Iversen of Rosenborg scored 30 goals this season, which as of the start of the 2019 season is still a league record. On 20 October, Iversen scored six goals in Rosenborg's 7–2 win against Vålerengen. That is still a joint league record for most goals scored in one game, an achievement Jan Fuglset copied in 1976.


1968 2. divisjon
The 1968 2. divisjon was a Norwegian second-tier football league season.


1968 2. divisjon
The league was contested by 16 teams, divided into two groups; A and B. The winners of group A and B were promoted to the 1969 1. divisjon. The two lowest placed teams in both groups were relegated to the 3. divisjon.


1968 2. divisjon, Overview, Summary
Start won group A with 24 points. Hødd won group B with 19 points. Both teams were promoted to the 1969 1. divisjon.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 36th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 28 and 29 September 1968 on the Circuit de la Sarthe, in Le Mans, France.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans
Originally scheduled for the weekend of 15 and 16 June, the race had to be delayed until September due to protests, strikes, and civil unrest in France during the summer of 1968. The rescheduled race increased the chances of the Group 6 Prototypes against the Group 4 Sports cars, as the new Prototype cars had matured during the season. It also increased the amount of darkness that drivers would be racing in compared to June, by about three hours: a total of 11 hours. Its new date made it the tenth and final round of the 1968 World Sportscar Championship of a tense and close championship between Ford and Porsche.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans
The winners were Pedro Rodriguez and Lucien Bianchi, in the J.W. Automotive Gulf-Oil Ford GT40. Despite Porsche finishing second and third, the victory was enough to give Ford the manufacturer's title.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans
There were also two major accidents during the race ending the racing careers of Willy Mairesse and Mauro Bianchi (Lucien's younger brother), who both suffered severe burns in the crashes.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations
Straight after the 1967 race, the CSI (Commission Sportive Internationale - the FIA’s regulatory body) convened to discuss ways to limit the increasingly dangerous speeds in Sports car racing, mindful of what led to the 1955 disaster. It was decided to impose a 3-litre (120-litre fuel tank) on Group 6 Prototypes and a 5-litre limit (160-litre fuel tank) on Group 4 Sports. There remained no engine limit on the Group 3 GTs. It effectively banned the big-block Fords and Chaparral, as well as the big Ferraris and the new Mirage and Lola-Aston Martin and marked the end of an era. The theory was that manufacturers would turn to the use of 3-litre Formula One engines to save development costs.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations
However, it was the immediate implementation in the next year that caused much unrest with the companies. The CSI cited ‘safety concerns’ justifying the rapid action. Enzo Ferrari cancelled his Prototype program. He was not alone in believing a 5-litre Sports car would outperform a 3-litre Prototype, and that only the big manufacturers would be able to make the minimum 50 big-engined cars to get Group 4 homologation.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations
Because the race was rescheduled and the longer period of darkness, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) permitted one battery change. With high speed being such a talking point, Ford volunteered to sponsor a major road realignment on the main straight, installing a chicane just before the pitlane. The changes added at least 10 seconds to a lap, as well as causing greater wear on tyres and brakes. Although the track had been widened and safety features of the track improved in the aftermath of the 1955 disaster, this was the first significant layout-change to the circuit since 1932. Diverting the racing away from the pits also significantly increased the safety of the pit-crews. Finally, in line with the global racing trend, commercial advertising was now allowed on cars.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
Although devoid of the big team entries from Ford and Ferrari there were still 94 applications for this year's race, and 58 cars arrived to qualify for the 54 starting places. Into that space the biggest entries were from Porsche and Alpine with 13 and 11 cars respectively. The new regulations did have a positive impact on redressing the imbalance of the Prototypes to the other two categories


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
With the withdrawal of the Ford factory teams, J.W. Automotive had bought the rights to racing the GT40 and took over the Ford Advanced Vehicles facility at Slough. Backed by Gulf Oil and its distinctive light blue and orange livery. One of the previous year's Mirages was reverted to a GT40 while two new cars were built, this time all running a 5-litre V8, generating 415 bhp. The Gulf GT40s received some of the improvements of the Mirage, and a significant effort was made to reduce the weight of car using high-tech materials.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
A large part of the body was made of a very thin polyester sheet reinforced with carbon fibre. The cars were very competitive having already won four races. Wyer's two best drivers however weren't present: Jacky Ickx and Brian Redman, winners at Brands Hatch and Spa, had both broken limbs from Formula 1 accidents (at Mont Tremblant and Spa respectively) Former Ferrari-stalwart Pedro Rodriguez, and Alfa Romeo team-driver Lucien Bianchi were brought in for the race. Paul Hawkins / David Hobbs (race winners at Monza) had their regular car while Brian Muir / Jackie Oliver had the new chassis.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
There were also regular GT40 privateer entries, from Claude Dubois (with drivers Willy Mairesse/”Beurlys”), and Mike Salmon, having recovered from the burns he got in his Ford the previous year.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
Ferrari was true to his word and boycotted Le Mans, which also left several of his customer teams stranded, like the Equipe Nationale Belge and British Maranello Concessionaires. Ferrari hopes therefore fell back onto the four-year old 275 LM in Group 4. The North American Racing Team (NART) entered three different Ferraris: 1965 race-winner Masten Gregory re-joining his winning 275 LM car, a 275 GTB in the GT category and a Dino 206 S in the 2-litre Prototype class. Similarly, Scuderia Filipinetti had several options and also settled on running a 275 LM and a 275 GTB. The Swiss team also ran a pair of the latest 7-litre Corvette Stingrays in the GT division. There were two British privateer Ferraris. David Piper had done a major rebuild of his car, replacing most of its aluminium body with a polyester/fiberglass shell to reduce weight.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
A number of manufacturers stepped up to fill the leading prototype positions vacated by Ford and Ferrari: Porsche's ongoing development program wound up a notch with the new Porsche 908 fitted with a new 3-litre flat-8 producing 330 bhp and over 310 km/h (190 mph), the first time Porsche competed in the largest engine class of the regulations. Still quite unreliable, Porsche had to rely on their 907s to give them race victories early in the year, but the 908 came good at the Nürburgring race.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
Due to their low profile, the cars used small, but very bright quartz-iodine headlights, but this necessitated two alternators in each car rather than dynamos. With 5 wins to Ford's 4, Porsche had a narrow lead in the Championship coming into this final round, looking for its first overall FIA Championship.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
So four 908s were prepared for the works team, in langheck (longtail) form for the long fast straights. Their top pair were Jo Siffert (4 wins) and Hans Herrmann (2 wins). Rising sports-car start Vic Elford (the other race winner) was with Gerhard Mitter, Porsche regulars Rolf Stommelen and Jochen Neerpasch had the third while the Americans Joe Buzzetta/Scooter Patrick the fourth. The company also supported three privateers running the reliable 907 'langheck': Spaniard Alex Soler-Roig, Frenchman Philippe Farjon and the new Swiss team Squadra Tartaruga of Rico Steinemann.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
The new Matra 3-litre V12 had its race debut simultaneously in May at the Monaco F1 GP and the Spa 1000 km. Capable of a powerful 380 bhp, the company was initially not going to run at Le Mans, however the deferred date allowed for more testing and a single MS630 longtail was prepared for team drivers Henri Pescarolo and Johnny Servoz-Gavin.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
French hopes for outright victory mainly rested on Alpine. A proven record in the smaller classes encouraged Jean Rédélé to move up to the main category. But the new Gordini-prepared Renault 3-litre V8 only produced 310 bhp for the new A220 design. After racing earlier in the year, the car now had a rear spoiler to try to correct a dangerous aerodynamic fault: at the Nürburgring the Alpine of Henri Grandsire had got airborne and done a 360˚ loop.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
Jacques Cheinisse retired from racing to manage the racing team, and a big effort put eleven cars on the grid, second only to Porsche. The works team ran three A220s for Grandsire and Gérard Larrousse, Jean Guichet/Jean-Pierre Jabouille and Alpine engineer André de Cortanze/Jean Vinatier. Regular customer team Ecurie Savin-Calberson also entered one for Mauro Bianchi and Patrick Depailler and they also put an A210 in the 2-litre category. Alpine also ran the A210 in the 1300cc and 1150cc Prototype classes, including a debut for 30-race Le Mans veteran Bob Wollek. Finally, two of the homologated A110 were run in the GT category by French privateers.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
British entries were limited. The Lola T70 now had a 5-litre Chevrolet engine in the Sports category. John Woolfe commissioned Chevron to build a new car. The B12 was a one-off design with a fibreglass  body and carrying a modified version of the 3-litre Formula 1 Repco V8 engine developing 330 bhp. Austin-Healey, as well as their regular Le Mans Sprite entry, developed a new 2-litre prototype with the Coventry Climax FWM V8 engine that put out 240 bhp. It was run by Healey's regular drivers Clive Baker and Andrew Hedges.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
In line with the ACO's commitment to technological development, there were two turbine-powered Howmet TXs entered in the prototype class, following on from the Rover-BRM last run in 1965. Ray Heppenstall designed a car on a Group 7 Can-Am chassis, with an aluminium shell from Howmet Castings. The Continental turbine was from a helicopter and rated as an equivalent to 3-litres with 325 bhp. It was very light but thirsty on its paraffin fuel. After a 3rd place at Watkins Glen it had shown reliability. Heppenstall drove one with race-veteran Dick Thompson while Bob Tullius/Hugh Dibley had the other.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
For two years Autodelta, the racing division of Alfa Romeo, had had a difficult time developing a new sports prototype. Both Jean Rolland and Leo Cella had been killed in testing accidents. The Tipo 33/2 was the new evolution and its 2-litre V8 engine put out 260 bhp. Autodelta had four cars entered including works drivers Nino Vaccarella/Giancarlo Baghetti and ‘Nanni’ Galli/Ignazio Giunti. It also supported two cars entered by the Belgian VDS customer team.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice
This year, for an unknown reason, the April test weekend coincided with the British round of the International Championship. Jacky Ickx set the benchmark for JWA, with a 3:35.4 lap, then promptly left for Brands Hatch to win the endurance race. It was also the first appearance of the new Porsche 908, in the hands of Rolf Stommelen. It was found to need major aerodynamic refinement, but Stommelen eventually got a time of 3:44.1.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice
On race-week, Jo Siffert matched Ickx's test time exactly with his Porsche 908 to take pole position. The next day Stommelen and Elford claimed the next places, ahead of Rodriguez's Ford and Servoz-Gavin's Matra. The best Alpine was Bianchi's 3:43.2 in 8th, Vaccarella got his Alfa in 14th while the Howmet clocked 20th with 3:56.0. The best Ferrari was Müller's down in 27th (4:01.8). The Belgian Ford lost its oil through a faulty connection but was able to get a replacement engine from the JWA team.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice
During the April test many drivers had complained about the layout of the new chicane, being too tight. By September it had been redesigned to greater satisfaction.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start
This year the start time was moved forward to 3pm for the spectators’ sake due to the earlier onset of darkness. The honorary starter was Fiat boss Gianni Agnelli . Race-day was showery and most of the cars started on wet tyres with a heavy shower just ten minutes before the start. Siffert, among a few others, started on pole with slicks however.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start
In his rush to get away, Willy Mairesse did not shut his door properly. At the end of the Mulsanne Straight at a speed of over 150 mph (241 km/h), it flew open. Trying to close it he lost control and the Ford careered off the track into the trees. Mairesse suffered broken bones and head injuries which left him in a coma for two weeks and ended his racing career. At the end of the first lap, Porsches were in the top four places, with Stommelen in the lead. Siffert took the lead on the fourth lap (already lapping tailenders), with the Fords running in 5-6-7. Johnny Servoz-Gavin bought the Matra in with a malfunctioning windscreen-wiper.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start
The rain had stopped and the track was drying. Soon Hawkins and Rodríguez were in, with their wet-weather tyres ruined. Then on lap 12, the lap it was due in, the third Ford went off when Muir planted it in the sand at the Mulsanne corner. After three hours of digging he burned the clutch out in his departure. By the end of two hours Siffert had lapped the field. Teammate Elford was second, with the two Gulf-Fords, Buzzetta's 908 and the Alpines of Guichet and Bianchi next.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start
Eighth was the leading 2-litre car, Giunti's Alfa with the Matra and Piper's Ferrari filling out the top-10. Porsche then also started having problems as Stommelen and Elford both had electrical issues delaying them. Worse though was when the leading car's clutch broke just before 7pm, stranding Siffert out on the track unable to get back to the pits for repairs.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
This left the two Gulf Fords of Rodriguez/Bianchi and Hawkins/Hobbs swapping the lead going into the night. Then at 9pm Hobbs came into the pits also with a faulty clutch and they lost nearly 2 hours repairing it. Although they got going again, the engine soon expired spectacularly at the end of the Mulsanne Straight, just after midnight.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
During the night the Guichet/Jabouille Alpine had pitted from 6th but lost three-quarters an hour getting a new starter motor fitted. Approaching 9pm, with the Fords and Porsches now all back on the same lap, the order was changing as often as the pitstops took place. The four Alfas had a stranglehold on the Index of Performance. Soon after, Henri Grandsire had another accident in the Alpine, when it got airborne over the hump at the end of the Mulsanne straight. Again, he was fortunate to be able to walk away uninjured.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
Then the Mitter/Elford Porsche snapped its alternator belt. When the officials found that the team had changed the alternator they were disqualified (much to the chagrin of team manager Huschke von Hanstein) as that was a part not permitted to be replaced during the course of a race. Just before 11pm another alternator problem took out the Buzzetta/Patrick team car too (from 4th) and Porsche's hopes of outright victory were gone. Yet JWA could not be complacent, as they were also down to one competitive Ford with two-thirds of the race still to run.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
Early in the second hour the second Howmet turbine had been in the pits for three hours fixing its rear suspension. Consequently, at 11pm it was disqualified for having not covered sufficient distance. The leading Howmet was also hobbled, running at 70% power, due to faulty fuel-control. Around midnight Dick Thompson hit oil at the Indianapolis corner, lost control and rolled the car. The Howmets never raced again.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
The rain returned about 2.30am, got heavier and stayed for the rest of the night. Servoz-Gavin bought the Matra in with the windscreen-wiper faulty again. The Matra crew could not access the motor and were considering retiring until Henri Pescarolo angrily jumped in and took off in the rain, still with the faulty wiper.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
At the 3am halfway point, the Ford (177 laps) had a comfortable 4-lap lead over the surprising next pair: the new Matra was scrapping with the 2-litre Alfa Romeo of Giunti/Galli. Meanwhile, Stommelen's delayed Porsche 908 was back on song and closing in fourth (170 laps). Fifth, on the same lap, was the Swiss Porsche 907 of Squadra Tartaruga with the Bianchi/Depailler Alpine (169 laps - back after falling to 15th to fix their exhaust) leading the Alfas of Facetti/Dini and Casoni/Biscaldi. The Cortanze/Vinatier Alpine had moved up to 9th ahead of the three Ferrari 275s of David Piper, NART and Scuderia Filipinetti. There were still 30 cars classified as runners. The first two Alfas still led the Index of Performance, narrowly ahead of the Andruet/Nicolas Alpine and the Swiss Porsche.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
Soon after 5am Sylvain Garant aquaplaned and lost control of the big Corvette at the end of the pit straight in the rain. It slammed into the track-walls on both the left and right sides, strewing metal, wood and earth across the track. The injured Garant was taken to hospital. At 4.30am, the 3rd-place Alfa Romeo was delayed in the pits which gave Matra the chance to also pit, losing 3 laps and finally fix the wiper-motor. Just before dawn the Guichet/Jabouille Alpine, that had been fighting back from the back of the field after its delay had almost made it back into the top-10 when an alternator failure stopped their charge.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning
Dawn at 6.30am was gloomy and very wet, however the rain did eventually cease. The Ford now had a 7-lap lead over the Alfa Romeo and Matra, both on the same lap, delighting the French spectators. The Andruet/Nicolas Alpine had also now taken over the Index lead Soon after 11am, with less than four hours left in the race, the most serious accident of the race occurred. Mauro Bianchi, running 6th, had recently left the pits when he crashed heavily approaching the Esses. The full fuel tank exploded in a fireball setting alight the car and the bordering straw bales. Bianchi was lucky to survive, although he had severe burns to his face and arms. Another casualty was the Matra which got a puncture going through the debris. Servoz-Gavin got back to the pits, losing a place.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning
Then with only 3 hours to go there was a sudden change at the top. The Alfa Romeo came into the pits with suspension failure losing 30 minutes, and 4 laps, getting it repaired. Then more dramatically at 12.30, the pursuing Matra got another puncture. In getting it back to the pits the disintegrating tyre damaged the battery, causing an electrical fire and putting it out of the race. The Swiss Porsche that had been running so reliably inherited second.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race
In the end it was a comfortable 5-lap victory to the GT40 of Rodríguez and Bianchi. For Pedro Rodríguez, it was only his second finish after 11 attempts. For Lucien Bianchi it was his 13th Le Mans. In an excellent run for the new Squadra Tartaruga team, Steinemann and Spoerry came in second just a lap ahead of the Stommelen/Neerpasch works car. The repaired Alfa Romeo of Giunti/Galli was fourth, leading a formation finish of their Autodelta teammates coming in 4-5-6, the three of them separated by seventeen laps.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race
Seventh was the green Ferrari of English privateer David Piper, delayed by overheating issues but surprisingly was the only Ferrari finisher this year. Eighth was the remaining 3-litre Alpine, driven by co-designer André de Cortanze and Jean Vinatier. It headed home three of the smaller Alpines, two of which (the Thérier/Tramont 1.3-litre A210 and the Andruet/Nicolas 1-litre works cars) won the two lucrative Index prizes.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race
The leading GT car was the Belgian Porsche of Jean-Pierre Gaban, giving the 911 the first of many overall GT wins for the model. The final classified car, and the only British entry to finish, was the Austin-Healey Sprite in 15th.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race
The Matra board was very satisfied with its new car's promising performance and therefore decided to expand its racing programme. Rico Steinemann, second-place winner and a former racing journalist went on, later in the year, to succeed Huschke von Hanstein as Porsche's Racing Manager.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race
1968 would be a terrible year for racing accidents. As well as the career-ending injuries to Willy Mairesse and Mauro Bianchi at this race, a number of other Le Mans veterans were killed or seriously injured over the racing season. These included Ludovico Scarfiotti (Rossfeld hillclimb), Jo Schlesser (French Grand Prix), Brian Redman (injured at Belgian Grand Prix), Mike Spence (Indianapolis), Chris Irwin (Nürburgring) and the great Jim Clark at Hockenheim. Circuit safety would become a greater and greater priority at Le Mans and in motor-racing in the next few years.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Official results, Finishers
Results taken from Quentin Spurring's book, officially licensed by the ACO Class Winners are in Bold text.


1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, Official results, Statistics
Taken from Quentin Spurring's book, officially licensed by the ACO


1968 ABA All-Star Game
The first American Basketball Association All-Star Game was played on January 9, 1968, at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, before an audience of 10,872. Jim Pollard (Minnesota Muskies) coached the Eastern Conference team, while Babe McCarthy (New Orleans Buccaneers) coached the West.


1968 ABA All-Star Game
Mel Daniels helped take the East team to victory by leading all players with 22 points and 15 rebounds, but Larry Brown of the losing West squad was named MVP. Joe Belmont and Ron Feiereisel officiated the game.


1968 ABA Playoffs
The 1968 ABA Playoffs was the postseason tournament following the American Basketball Association's inaugural 1967-1968 season, starting on March 23 and ending on May 4. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Division champion Pittsburgh Pipers defeating the Western Division champion New Orleans Buccaneers, four games to three in the ABA Finals.


1968 ABA Playoffs, Notable events
The Pittsburgh Pipers won the ABA championship in the playoffs after posting the league's best record during the regular season (54-24, .692). The Minnesota Muskies had the league's second best record, but they played in the Eastern Division with the Pipers.


1968 ABA Playoffs, Notable events
None of the four teams that made it to the Division finals (and ABA finals) remained as they were during this season throughout the league's entire existence. The Pittsburgh Pipers spent the following season as the Minnesota Pipers, returned to play as the Pittsburgh Pipers the year after that, and then played two seasons as the Pittsburgh Condors before folding in 1972. After three seasons the New Orleans Buccaneers left town and became the Memphis Pros in 1970. The Minnesota Muskies spent the next two seasons as the Miami Floridians and then spent two seasons after that as The Floridians before folding in 1972. The Dallas Chaparrals eventually became the San Antonio Spurs, continuing to this day in the NBA.


1968 ABA Playoffs, Notable events
The Kentucky Colonels won the last Eastern Division playoff berth in a one-game playoff over the New Jersey Americans by forfeit when the venue chosen by the Americans, Commack Arena, had an unplayable floor.


1968 ABA Playoffs, Notable events
Connie Hawkins of the Pittsburgh Pipers was the Most Valuable Player of the ABA playoffs.


1968 ABA Playoffs, Western Division
(1) New Orleans Buccaneers vs. (3) Denver Rockets:Bucs win series 3-2


1968 ABA Playoffs, Western Division
(2) Dallas Chaparrals vs. (4) Houston Mavericks:Chaparrals win series 3-0


1968 ABA Playoffs, Western Division
(1) New Orleans Buccaneers vs. (2) Dallas Chaparrals:Bucs win series 4-1


1968 ABA Playoffs, Eastern Division
(1) Pittsburgh Pipers vs. (3) Indiana Pacers:Pipers win series 3-0


1968 ABA Playoffs, Eastern Division
(2) Minnesota Muskies vs. (4) Kentucky Colonels:Muskies win series 3-2


1968 ABA Playoffs, Eastern Division
(1) Pittsburgh Pipers vs. (2) Minnesota Muskies:Pipers win series 4-1


1968 ABA Playoffs, ABA Finals
(1) Pittsburgh Pipers VS. (1) New Orleans Buccaneers:Pipers win series 4-3


1968 ABC Championship for Women
The 1968 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Women were held in Taipei, Republic of China.


1968 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1968 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the original Charlotte Coliseum from March 7–9, 1968. North Carolina defeated NC State, 87–50, to win the championship. Larry Miller of North Carolina was named tournament MVP. NC State's 12–10 victory over Duke in the semifinals was the lowest-scoring game in ACC Tournament history. This was the first ACC Tournament held in Charlotte.


1968 AFC Asian Cup
The 1968 AFC Asian Cup was the 4th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were held in Iran between 10 and 19 May 1968. It was organized on a round robin basis, with the home team Iran winning with a perfect record of four wins.


1968 AFC Asian Cup
Except Iran, none of the other four teams that played in this tournament has ever appeared again in the Asian Cup finals as of 2019.


1968 AFC Asian Cup, Goalscorers
With 4 goals, Homayoun Behzadi of Iran, Giora Spiegel and Moshe Romano of Israel are the top scorers of the tournament. In total, 32 goals were scored by 19 or 20 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.


1968 AFC Asian Cup qualification
Qualification for the 1968 AFC Asian Cup. The winner of each group advances to the final tournament.


1968 AFC Asian Cup squads
Squads for the 1968 AFC Asian Cup played in Iran.


1968 AFC Asian Cup squads, Hong Kong
Hong Kong national team and Republic of China national team shared same fodder of players during pre-1971. Most (if not all) the players playing in the Hong Kong football league. The ROC team practically the A-team, while Hong Kong practically the B-team, with lesser quality of players.


1968 AFC Youth Championship
The AFC Youth Championship 1968 was held in Seoul, South Korea.


1968 APG Tour Qualifying School graduates
This is a list of the 1968 APG Tour Qualifying School graduates.


1968 APG Tour Qualifying School graduates
This was the only qualifying school for the American Professional Golfers (APG), a briefly lived breakaway tour that was created by tour golfers who were upset with financial arrangements with the PGA of America. The APG is the direct antecedent for an independent PGA Tour which began shortly thereafter.


1968 APG Tour Qualifying School graduates
The tournament was played over 144 holes at the Doral Country Club in Doral, Florida in mid October. There were 39 players in the field and 21 earned their tour card.


1968 APG Tour Qualifying School graduates
Dutch golfer Martin Roesink was the medallist. Australian Bob Shaw finished in second place.


1968 Acton by-election
The Acton by-election of 28 March 1968 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Bernard Floud  on 10 October 1967. The seat, previously Labour, was gained by the Conservatives in a defeat for Harold Wilson's government. It was one of the three Conservative gains from Labour on the same day, the others being at Meriden and Dudley. The by-election also marked the first electoral appearance of the National Front, who finished fourth.


1968 Afars and Issas legislative election
Territorial Council elections were held in Afars and Issas on 17 November 1968. The result was a victory for the Afar Democratic Rally, which won 20 out of 32 seats.


1968 African Cup of Champions Clubs
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1968 African Cup of Champions Clubs
The African Cup of Champions Clubs 1968 was the 4th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CAF region (Africa), the African Cup of Champions Clubs. It determined that year's club champion of association football in Africa.


1968 African Cup of Champions Clubs
The tournament was played by 20 teams and used a knock-out format with ties played home and away. TP Englebert from Congo-Kinshasa won the final, and became CAF club champion for the second time in a row for the first time this makes the record holders for the number of titles won.


1968 African Cup of Champions Clubs, Preliminary round
1 Mighty Blackpool, Augustinians FC and Cosmopolitans FC all withdrew.


1968 African Cup of Champions Clubs, First round
1 Africa Sports were ejected from the competition for fielding three ineligible players. 2 Mighty Barolle were disqualified after Liberia was suspended by FIFA. 3 Stationery Stores won after drawing of lots.


1968 African Cup of Champions Clubs, Quarter-Finals
1 The 1st leg was abandoned at 72' with Étoile Filante leading 3-0 after Conakry II walked off to protest the officiating and withdrew from the tournament; the 2nd leg was scratched and Étoile Filante advanced. 2 A third match was played in Dakar by mutual agreement. After the match finished 2–2 when extra time expired, FAR Rabat won by drawing of lots.


1968 African Cup of Champions Clubs, Top scorers
The top scorers from the 1968 African Cup of Champions Clubs are as follows:


1968 African Cup of Nations
The 1968 African Cup of Nations was the sixth edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the soccer championship of Africa (CAF). It was hosted by Ethiopia. The field expanded to eight teams, split into two groups of four; the top two teams in each group advanced to the semifinals. Congo-Kinshasa won its first championship, beating Ghana in the final 1−0.


1968 African Cup of Nations
Prior to this tournament, the African Cup of Nations were held once every three years, following 1968 they were held once every two years.


1968 African Cup of Nations qualification
This page details the process of qualifying for the 1968 African Cup of Nations.


1968 African Cup of Nations qualification, Group stage, Group 4, Second round
United Arab Republic withdrew due to the Six-Day War with Israel, which began on 5 June 1967. Uganda qualified.


1968 African Cup of Nations squads
Below is a list of squads used in the 1968 African Cup of Nations.


1968 Air Canada Silver Broom
The 1968 Air Canada Silver Broom, the men's world curling championship, was held in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada at the Pointe Claire Arena.


1968 Air Force Falcons football team
The 1968 Air Force Falcons football team represented the United States Air Force Academy in the 1968 NCAA University Division football season as a University Division Independent. They were led by eleventh–year head coach Ben Martin. The Falcons played their home games at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They outscored their opponents 251–156 and finished with a record of 7 wins and 3 losses (7–3).


1968 Akron Zips football team
The 1968 Akron Zips football team represented Akron University in the 1968 NCAA College Division football season as an independent. Led by eighth-year head coach Gordon K. Larson, the Zips played their home games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio. They finished the regular season with a record of 7–2–1, ranked No. 17 in the nation, and were invited to play in the Grantland Rice Bowl, functionally the Mideast regional championship game for the NCAA's College Division, against the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.


1968 Akron Zips football team
After their postseason loss, the Zips finished the season 7–3–1, having outscored their opponents 327–172 in total.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The 1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1968 NCAA University Division football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 74th overall and 35th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bear Bryant, in his 11th year, and played their home games at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Legion Field in Birmingham and Ladd Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. They finished season with eight wins and three losses (8–3 overall, 4–2 in the SEC) and with a loss against Missouri in the Gator Bowl.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
Alabama opened the season ranked #7 and won their first two games against Virginia Tech at Birmingham and Southern Miss in their annual Mobile game, which proved to be the last game Alabama would play at Ladd Stadium in Mobile. In their third game, the Crimson Tide were upset by Ole Miss at Jackson, their first loss to the Rebels since the 1910 season. They rebounded the next week with a victory over Vanderbilt but lost the next week to Tennessee after coach Bryant elected to go for the victory instead of a tie and missed a two-point conversion and lost 10–9 at Knoxville.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
After their loss to Tennessee, Alabama rebounded and won their final five regular season games. After they defeated Clemson, they returned to Tuscaloosa where they defeated Mississippi State on homecoming. The Crimson Tide next upset LSU in Birmingham, defeated Miami at the Miami Orange Bowl, and Auburn in the Iron Bowl. Later that December, Alabama lost 35–10 to Missouri in the Gator Bowl.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech
To open the 1968 season, Alabama defeated the Virginia Tech Hokies 14–7 at Legion Field. After a scoreless first quarter, all three of the touchdowns scored in the game were made in the second quarter. Alabama took a 14–0 lead on a pair of Scott Hunter to George Ranager touchdown passes first from eight and then from 65-yards. The Hokies then scored their only points with 0:42 left in the half after Larry Creekmore blocked a Frank Mann punt that was recovered by Jud Brownell in the endzone for a touchdown. In the game, the Alabama defense was dominant and only allowed Tech 51 total yards of offense that included minus 17 rushing yards in the victory. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Virginia Tech to 4–0.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss
After their victory over Virginia Tech, Alabama retained their No. 7 position in the AP Poll prior to their game against Southern Miss. In their annual game played at Mobile, Alabama came from behind and defeated the Southerners 17–10 behind a ten-point rally in the fourth quarter. The Crimson Tide took an early 7–0 lead after Ed Morgan scored on a nine-yard touchdown run. The Golden Eagles responded in the second with a one-yard Tommy Boutwell touchdown pass to Toby Vance that tied the game 7–7 at halftime. Larry Moulton next scored on a two-yard run that gave Southern a 14–7 lead in the third quarter.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss
Early in the fourth after Donnie Sutton recovered an Eagles fumble, Oran Buck cut the lead to 14–10 with his 19-yard field goal. Alabama then scored the game-winning points late in the game on a 34-yard Scott Hunter touchdown pass to George Ranager for the 17–10 victory. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Southern Miss to 10–2–1.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss
After their near loss against Southern Miss, Alabama dropped from the No. 7 to No. 11 position in the AP Poll prior to their game at Ole Miss. Against the Rebels, the Crimson Tide was upset 10–8 before the largest crowd to date ever to witness a college football game in the state of Mississippi. After a scoreless first, Ole Miss took a 7–0 halftime lead after Archie Manning threw a six-yard touchdown pass to Henry Shows in the second quarter. They then extended their lead to 10–0 with a 44-yard Perry King field goal in the third quarter.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss
Alabama ended the Ole Miss shutout bid with just 0:08 left in the game after a Julian Fagan punt was blocked by Mike Hall and recovered by Mike Reilly in the endzone for a touchdown. They then converted a two-point conversion that made the final score 10–8. The victory was the first for Ole Miss over Alabama since their 16–0 win in 1910, a period that spanned 58 years. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Ole Miss to 20–4–2.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
After their loss against Ole Miss, Alabama dropped out of the AP Poll altogether prior to their game against Vanderbilt. Against the Commodores, Alabama rebounded from the previous weeks loss with a 31–7 victory at Tuscaloosa. Ed Morgan scored the first points of the game with his one-yard touchdown run in the first quarter for a 7–0 lead. After a scoreless second quarter, the Crimson Tide extended their lead to 17–0 in the third on a 21-yard Mike Dean field goal and a 17-yard Buddy Seay touchdown run.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
In the fourth, Scott Hunter scored for Alabama on a one-yard run, followed with Vanderbilt's only points on a four-yard David Strong run and then the Crimson Tide made the final score 31–7 on a one-yard Pete Moore touchdown run. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Vanderbilt to 26–16–4.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee
Against Tennessee, coach Bryant elected to go for the victory instead of a tie in the final minutes of the game, and after the failed two-point conversion the Volunteers held onto a 10–9 victory at Knoxville. Tennessee took an early 7–0 lead in the first quarter after Richmond Flowers scored on a one-yard touchdown run. Alabama responded later in the quarter with a 28-yard Mike Dean field goal that made the score 7–3. The score remained the same through the fourth quarter when Karl Kremser kicked what was then a SEC record 54-yard field goal that extended the Volunteers lead to 10–3.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee
After the Tennessee field goal, the Crimson Tide had their most sustained drive of the game. The 80-yard drive culminated in a four-yard Donnie Sutton touchdown reception from Scott Hunter that made the score 10–9. However, instead of playing for the tie and kicking the extra point, coach Bryant elected to go for the win on a two-point conversion. On the attempt, Joe Kelley failed to complete the pass to Sutton and Tennessee won the game as a result 10–9. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Tennessee to 23–21–7.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Clemson
At Denny Stadium, the Crimson Tide narrowly defeated the Tigers of the Atlantic Coast Conference 21–14. Alabama took an early 14–0 lead with a pair of first-quarter touchdowns. The first came on a 40-yard Donnie Sutton reception from Scott Hunter and the second on a 13-yard Buddy Seay run. Clemson responded and tied the game 14–14 with touchdowns in each of the next two quarters. Buddy Gore scored first in the second quarter on a three-yard run and was followed with a six-yard Billy Ammons touchdown pass to Ray Yauger in the third.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Clemson
Alabama retook the lead in the fourth on a 30-yard Hunter touchdown pass to George Ranager that made the score 21–14. Clemson then drove the ball late to the Crimson Tide 41-yard line only to have Ammons throw an interception late that sealed the Alabama victory. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Clemson to 9–3.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
On homecoming in Tuscaloosa, the Crimson Tide held leading SEC quarterback Tommy Pharr in check and defeated the Mississippi State Bulldogs 20–13 at Tuscaloosa. After Alabama took an early 7–0 lead on a two-yard Ed Morgan touchdown run, the Bulldogs responded with a one-yard Lynn Zeringue touchdown run, but a failed extra point kept the Crimson Tide in the lead 7–6. Alabama then extended their lead to 20–6 at halftime with 13 second quarter points. After Pete Jilleba scored on a two-yard touchdown run, Mike Dean connected on field goals of 25 and 29-yards.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
The final points of the game came in the third quarter when Pharr threw an eight-yard touchdown pass to Sammy Milner that made the final score 20–13. In the game, Pete Moore led the Crimson Tide after he rushed for 115 yards on 28 carries. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Mississippi State to 40–10–3.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU
On a cool afternoon before a capacity crowd at Legion Field, Alabama upset the LSU Tigers 16–7. The Crimson Tide took their opening possession 79-yards in eight plays that culminated with an 11-yard Scott Hunter touchdown pass to Pete Jilleba for a 6–0 lead. After a scoreless second, LSU took a 7–6 lead in the third quarter on a 15-yard Kenny Newfield touchdown run. Alabama responded with ten unanswered points to close the game an won 16–7. After a 29-yard Mike Dean field goal in the third, Hunter threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to Donnie Sutton in the fourth quarter. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against LSU to 20–8–4.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Miami
After their victory over LSU, Alabama reentered the AP Poll at the No. 16 position prior to their game at Miami. On homecoming at the Orange Bowl, Alabama defeated the Hurricanes 14–6 behind a long touchdown reception and interception return. This game was also noted for being the first college football regular season game to be telecast nationally on prime time television.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Miami
The Crimson Tide took a 7–0 lead in the first quarter when Scott Hunter threw a 73-yard touchdown pass to Donnie Sutton. Alabama remained up by a touchdown through the fourth quarter when Mike Dean intercepted a Lew Pytel pass and returned it 69-yards for a touchdown and a 14–0 lead. The Hurricanes responded late with a two-yard Bobby Best touchdown run that made the final score 14–6. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Miami to 6–2.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn
After their victory over Miami, Alabama moved into the No. 15 position in the AP Poll prior to their game against Auburn. Behind a strong all-around performance in the annual Iron Bowl game, Alabama defeated the Tigers 24–16 at Legion Field in the final game of the regular season. After Ed Morgan gave Alabama a 7–0 lead with his 35-yard touchdown run, Auburn responded with a 22-yard John Riley field goal that made the score 7–3 at the end of the first quarter. The Crimson Tide then took a 14–3 halftime lead after Morgan scored his second touchdown of the game on a one-yard run.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn
After Alabama went up 21–3 on a five-yard Scott Hunter touchdown pass to Mike Hall in the third quarter, Auburn responded with their first touchdown of the game on a 70-yard Loran Carter pass to Mike Currier that made the score 21–10. After the Tigers scored their second touchdown on a five-yard Carter pass to Connie Frederick, Alabama scored their final points of the game on a 30-yard Mike Dean field goal that made the final score 24–16. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Auburn to 18–14–1.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Missouri
On November 20, Alabama accepted an invitation to play Missouri of the Big Eight Conference in the Gator Bowl for their 10th consecutive bowl game appearance. Against the Tigers, Bryant suffered his worst loss to date as head coach of the Crimson Tide with this 35–10 loss in the first all-time meeting between the schools. After Terry McMillan gave Missouri a 7–0 lead with his four-yard touchdown run in the first, Alabama responded in the second with their only touchdown of the game on a 38-yard Donnie Sutton interception return.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Missouri
McMillan then responded with his second touchdown of the game of the game on a five-yard run that made the halftime score 14–7. The score remained the same through the fourth quarter when Alabama converted a 28-yard Mike Dean field goal before the Tigers closed the game with three unanswered touchdowns and won 35–10. These touchdowns were scored on a two-yard McMillan run, a 35-yard Greg Cook run and on a 47-yard Dennis Poppe interception return.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, NFL Draft
Several players that were varsity lettermen from the 1968 squad were drafted into the National Football League (NFL) in the 1969 and 1971 drafts. These players included the following:


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad
Prior to the 1972 NCAA University Division football season, NCAA rules prohibited freshmen from participating on the varsity team, and as such many schools fielded freshmen teams. The Alabama freshmen squad was led by coach Clem Gryska for the 1968 season and finished with a record of two wins and three losses (2–3). The Baby Tide opened their season with a 20–16 come-from-behind victory over Mississippi State at Denny Stadium. Chuck Jordan gave State a 3–0 lead with his 31-yard field goal, and Alabama responded with a one-yard Johnny Musso touchdown run that made the score 7–3.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad
In the second quarter, the Bullpups scored on a pair of Steve Natale that made the halftime score 16–7. The first was from eight-yards to Jerry Harris and the second from nine-yards to John Male. After a scoreless third, Alabama won the game 20–16 after fourth-quarter touchdowns on a 55-yard Bubba Sawyer punt return and on a one-yard Musso run.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad
In their second game Vanderbilt took a 24–0 lead into the fourth quarter and Alabama went on to lose 24–14 at Nashville. Commodores touchdowns were scored by Dwight Blair on a two-yard run, a seven-yard Watson Brown pass to Gary Chesley and on a three-yard Brown run. Alabama scored their touchdowns in the fourth on a 49-yard Al Harvey interception return and on a 38-yard Bubba Sawyer touchdown reception. In their third game, the Baby Tide lost their second road game of the season at Ole Miss 15–13. Against the Rebels, Buddy Talley threw for both of Alabama's touchdowns. The first was from six-yards to David Bailey and the second from 16-yards to Robin Parkhouse, but a failed two-point conversion kept Alabama from tying the game.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad
Although Tennessee gained 419 yards of total offense in the game, Alabama defeated the Vols 28–21 at Denny Stadium. In the game, Johnny Musso starred for Alabama with a pair of touchdown runs from three and nine-yards as well as a touchdown reception on a 16-yard Terry Davis pass. In their final game of the season against Auburn, Alabama led 27–0 at halftime; however, Pat Sullivan led the Tigers to 36 unanswered points in the second half for a 36–27 Auburn victory at Tuscaloosa.


1968 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad
Alabama's touchdowns were scored by Hal Dunbar on runs of five and eight-yards, a three-yard Dunbar pass to Steve Williams and on a 24-yard Tommy Stringfellow run. In the second half, Sullivan threw touchdown passes of 33-yards to Daryl Johnson, 36 and 72-yards to Terry Beasley and four-yards to Jere Colley. The Tigers final touchdown was scored by David Shelby on a one-yard run that made the final score 36–27.


1968 Albanian National Championship
The 1968 Albanian National Championship was the 30th season of the Albanian National Championship, the top professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1930.


1968 Albanian National Championship, Overview
It was contested by 14 teams, and 17 Nëntori won the championship.


1968 Albanian National Championship, League table
Note: '17 Nëntori' is Tirana, 'Labinoti' is Elbasani, 'Lokomotiva Durrës' is Teuta, 'Traktori' is Lushnja, 'Ylli i Kuq' is Pogradeci


1968 Alcorn A&M Braves football team
The 1968 Alcorn A&M Braves football team was an American football team that represented Alcorn A&M University in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during 1968 NCAA College Division football season. In their third season under head coach Marino Casem, Alcorn compiled a 9–1 record (7–1 against conference opponents), won the SWAC championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 359 to 85.


1968 Alcorn A&M Braves football team
Alcorn A&M was also recognized as the black college national champion.


1968 All England Badminton Championships
The 1968 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at Wembley Arena, London, England, from 19–23 March 1968.


1968 All England Badminton Championships, Final results
Muljadi was formerly known as Ang Tjin Siang. Mary O'Sullivan married and became Mary Bryan.


1968 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team
The 1968 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various selectors for their All-Atlantic Coast Conference ("ACC") teams for the 1968 NCAA University Division football season. Selectors in 1968 included the Associated Press (AP).


1968 All-Big Eight Conference football team
The 1968 All-Big Eight Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Eight Conference teams for the 1968 NCAA University Division football season. The selectors for the 1968 season included the Associated Press (AP).


1968 All-Big Ten Conference football team
The 1968 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Ten Conference teams for the 1968 Big Ten Conference football season.


1968 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
AP = Associated Press (AP), selected by a "board of sportswriters covering the Big Ten scene"


1968 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
UPI = United Press International (UPI), selected by the league's coaches


1968 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
Bold = Consensus first-team selection of both the AP and UPI


1968 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 1968 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship was the eighth staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship. The championship ended on 29 September 1968.


1968 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship
London were the defending champions and successfully retained the title following a 4-15 to 0-3 defeat of Dublin in the final.


1968 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
The 1968 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship was the 37th staging of the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament for boys under the age of 18.


1968 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
On 22 September 1968, Cork won the championship following a 3-5 to 1-10 defeat of Sligo in the All-Ireland final. This was their third All-Ireland title overall and their second in succession.


1968 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
The 1968 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the 38th staging of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1928.


1968 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
On 1 September 1968 Wexford won the championship following a 2-13 to 3-7 defeat of Cork in the All-Ireland final. This was their third All-Ireland title and their first in two championship seasons. It remains their last All-Ireland success.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
The 1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1968 season in Camogie. The championship was won by Wexford who defeated Cork by a three-point margin in the final.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Dublin’s Defeat
Dublin’s 2–3 to 1–3 defeat by Kilkenny at Parnell Park on 23 June 1968 was their first defeat in a Leinster championship match since July 1936, when they lost to Louth. Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press


1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Dublin’s Defeat
Kilkenny earned the unexpected victory and the right to meet Wexford in the Leinster final because they were the more alert side all through, faster to the ball and always showed the greater dash. Dublin played with the wind in the opening half, and though they had more of the play, it was Kilkenny who made the better use of fewer chances to lead by 2–0 to 0–1 at the interval, with goals from Breda Kinsella and Teasie O'Neill to Maureen Brennan’s Dublin point.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Dublin’s Defeat
The winners increased their lead soon after the restart, when Ann Carroll pointed from a 30, but Dublin now rallied. Judy Doyle took a neat pass from Anne McAllister to score a good goal. Kilkenny again attacked and after failing on two 30s had a vital point by Breda Kinsella. Dublin switched Kitty Murphy to right wing and Maureen Brennan to midfield and staged a late rally that brought points from Kitty Murphy and Kit Kehoe to reduce the margin to two points. Kilkenny had the last word, however, when Ann Carroll landed a long range point to clinch victory. It was Dublin’s first defeat in this competition since they lost to Louth in July 1936.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Dublin’s Defeat
Kilkenny played two matches to reach the Leinster final while Wexford got there without playing a match, getting a bye in the first round and then got a walkover from Louth. As Agnes Hourigan pointed out in the Irish Press


1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Dublin’s Defeat
Beginning with a coaching course around Easter, the drive went on for the revival of defunct clubs, and was continued by naming a panel of county players early on and giving them as much match-play experience as possible against varied opposition. That long-term preparation certainly paid off on Sunday when the whole Kilkenny side, from start to stop, played with the most important asset of all. They went out in the firm belief that they could beat Dublin and they did just that.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Leinster final
It took Kilkenny six years to win an All Ireland title, instead it was Wexford who delivered a breakthrough victory in 1968. They killed off the Linester final with three goals in the first ten minutes and went on to defeat Kilkenny 8–3 to 1–3 with four goals from Mary Doyle, and one each from Josie Kehoe, Bridget O'Connor, Mary Walsh and Eileen Allen.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final
Two goals down after seven minutes, Wexford battled back in the second quarter to win the final. One of their heroines was playing in her first senior game, Josie Kehoe from Cloughbawn, a last minute change at corner forward for Eileen Allen, and scored an opportunist first goal after the Cork goalkeeper had saved a free from Breda Doyle that was going over for a point. Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press


1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final
Always fast and never without excitement this was a most satisfying game that kept the crowd of between five and six thousand in a constant uproar as Cork against the odds, swept into an early lead. But Wexford came storming back to first level and then draw ahead, so that the Leinster champions seemed well on the road to victory when they led 3–1 to 2–0 at half time, with the advantage of the fresh breeze still to come.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
The 1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the 37th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
Cork scored two early goals but Wexford let 3-1 to 2-0 at half-time. Both sides had the benefit of long puck-outs taken by their respective full-backs. Wexford won their first ever title by a three-point margin.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 82nd staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 21 April 1968 and ended on 22 September 1968.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Meath entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Longford in the Leinster semi-final.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
On 22 September 1968, Down won the championship following a 2-12 to 1-13 defeat of Kerry in the All-Ireland final. This was their third All-Ireland title and their first in seven championship seasons.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Down's Paddy Doherty was the championship's top scorer with 1-25. His teammate Seán O'Neill was the choice for Texaco Footballer of the Year.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 81st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
This was Down's third appearance in an All-Ireland final, and they won all three. It was the third of three All-Ireland football titles won by Down in the 1960s, which made them joint "team of the decade" with Galway who also won three.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
In 2018, Martin Breheny listed this as the eleventh greatest All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary
Seán O'Neill and John Murphy each scored a goal which contributed to Down being in the lead by eight points following eight minutes of play. Kerry never recovered.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary
Seán O'Neill and John Murphy scored scrappy goals for Down, while Brendan Lynch's goal for Kerry was too late to make a difference.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 1968 was the 82nd staging of Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Wexford won the championship, beating Tipperary 5-8 to 3-12  in the final at Croke Park, Dublin.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Leinster Championship
First round: (1 match) This is a single match between two of the weaker teams drawn from the province of Leinster. One team is eliminated at this stage, while the winners advance to the quarter-final.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Leinster Championship
Second round: (1 match) This is a single match between the winner of the first round and another team drawn from the province of Leinster. One team is eliminated at this stage, while the winners advance to the semi-finals.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Leinster Championship
Semi-finals: (2 matches) The winners of the quarter-final join three other Leinster teams to make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage, while two teams advance to the Leinster final.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Leinster Championship
Final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. One team is eliminated at this stage, while the winners advance to the All-Ireland final.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Munster Championship
First round: (2 matches) These are two lone matches between the first four teams drawn from the province of Munster. Two teams are eliminated at this stage, while two teams advance to the semi-finals.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Munster Championship
Semi-finals: (2 matches) The winners of the two quarter-finals join the other two Munster teams to make up the semi-final pairings. Two teams are eliminated at this stage, while two teams advance to the final.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Munster Championship
Final: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest this game. One team is eliminated at this stage, while the winners advance to the All-Ireland final.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, All-Ireland Championship
Final: (1 match) The Leinster and the Munser champions contest the All-Ireland final.


1968 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
The 1968 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 81st All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1968 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Croke Park, Dublin, on 1 September 1968, between Wexford and Tipperary. The Munster champions lost to their Leinster opponents on a score line of 5-8 to 3-12.


1968 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship
The 1968 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship was the fifth staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964.


1968 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship
Mayo entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Offaly in the All-Ireland semi-final.


1968 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship
On 9 September 1968, Derry won the championship following a 3-9 to 1-9 defeat of Offaly in the All-Ireland final. This was their first All-Ireland title.


1968 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
The 1968 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship was the fifth staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship for players under the age of twenty-one since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964..


1968 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
Tipperary were the defending champions, however, they were defeated in the provincial stage. Cork won the title after defeating Kilkenny by 2-18 to 3-9 in the final.


1968 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
The 1968 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship final was a hurling match that was played at Walsh Park, Waterford on 8 September 1968 to determine the winners of the 1968 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, the 5th season of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion teams of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Cork of Munster and Kilkenny of Leinster, with Cork winning by 2-18 to 3-9.


1968 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
The All-Ireland final between Cork and Kilkenny was their first championship meeting. Cork were hoping to win their second title over all. Kilkenny, appearing in their first final, were hoping to win their first All-Ireland title.


1968 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
Cork's All-Ireland victory was their second in three years. The victory put them in joint first position with Tipperary on the all-time roll of honour.


1968 All-Pacific-8 Conference football team
The 1968 All-Pacific-8 Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Pacific-8 Conference teams for the 1968 NCAA University Division  football season.


1968 All-Pro Team
This is a list of players named as All-Pros based on their performance in the 1968 AFL  and NFL season. These lists provide a perspective into how players were judged against their peers by critics of their time. Players representing both the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) are included.


1968 All-Pro Team, Selectors
Teams were selected by several publications and wire services: the Associated Press (AP), the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), the New York Daily News (NYDN), Pro Football Weekly (PFW), the Pro Football Writers of America (PFWA), the Sporting News (SN) and the United Press International (UPI).


1968 All-Pro Team, Selectors
The PFWA selected a true "All-Pro" team which included players from both the NFL and AFL. The AP, NEA, Daily News and UPI selected one team for each league, which are  referred to as "All-NFL" and "All-AFL" teams. Pro Football Weekly named both a unified All-Pro team as well as All-NFL and All-AFL teams representing each of the leagues individually. The Sporting News named a single All-AFL team and All-Conference teams representing each of the two NFL conferences.


1968 All-Pro Team, Selectors
All of the publications named both first-team and second-team performers, with the exception of Pro Football Weekly and the Sporting News, which only selected only a first-team.