1967 NFL playoffs, Conference championships, Sunday, December 24, 1967, Eastern Conference: Dallas Cowboys 52, Cleveland Browns 14
Following a punt, Dallas drove 52 yards in 9 plays to score on Danny Villanueva's 10-yard field goal, giving them a 24–0 lead. With time running out in the second quarter, Cleveland quarterback Frank Ryan put together a last second touchdown drive, completing a 15-yard pass to Kelly and two passes to tight end Milt Morin for gains of 10 and 12 yards (the 12-yard reception converted a 4th and 11 situation). With just 4 seconds left on the clock, Ryan cut the score to 24–7 with a 13-yard touchdown pass to Morin.


1967 NFL playoffs, Conference championships, Sunday, December 24, 1967, Eastern Conference: Dallas Cowboys 52, Cleveland Browns 14
Still any hopes of a comeback were quickly dashed in the second half, as Meredith completed a 36-yard pass to Hayes on the Browns' 4-yard line that set up Baynham's 1-yard touchdown run, putting the Cowboys up 31–7. Cleveland responded with a drive to midfield, but this was stopped cold when Kelly was stuffed for no gain on 4th and 1.


1967 NFL playoffs, Conference championships, Sunday, December 24, 1967, Eastern Conference: Dallas Cowboys 52, Cleveland Browns 14
The Browns managed to prevent a score when linebacker Dale Lindsey recovered a fumble from Lance Rentzel on the Browns' 18-yard line, but their offense ended up punting again, and Hayes returned it 68 yards to the Cleveland 2. Three plays later, Perkins' 1-yard touchdown made the score 38–7. Then it became 45–7 when Cornell Green intercepted Ryan's pass and returned it 60 yards for a touchdown.


1967 NFL playoffs, Conference championships, Sunday, December 24, 1967, Eastern Conference: Dallas Cowboys 52, Cleveland Browns 14
Meredith was replaced by Craig Morton for most of the fourth quarter, but Dallas still managed to put together another touchdown drive, moving the ball 57 yards to Baynham's 3rd touchdown of the game, this one on a 1-yard run. Meanwhile, all Cleveland could do was cut the final score to 52–14 when Ryan threw a 75-yard touchdown pass to Paul Warfield with 2:12 left in the game.


1967 NFL playoffs, Conference championships, Sunday, December 24, 1967, Eastern Conference: Dallas Cowboys 52, Cleveland Browns 14
Hayes finished the game with five receptions for 144 yards and 3 punt returns for 141. His 141 punt return yards was an NFL playoff record until broken by Anthony Carter in the 1987 playoffs. His special teams effort would make a huge difference, as both teams were fairly even in yards gained (401 for Dallas, 322 for Cleveland) and turnovers (2 for Cleveland, 1 for Dallas)  Perkins rushed for 74 yards and two touchdowns, while also catching a 4-yard pass. Ryan finished the game 14/30 for 194 yards, with two touchdowns and 1 interception. Kelly rushed for 96 yards and caught 4 passes for 39. Warfield caught 3 passes for 99 yards and a touchdown.


1967 NFL season
The 1967 NFL season was the 48th regular season of the National Football League. The league expanded to 16 teams with the addition of the New Orleans Saints.


1967 NFL season
The two 8-team conferences were split into two divisions each: the Eastern Conference divisions were Capitol (Dallas, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Washington) and Century (Cleveland, New York, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis), and the Western Conference divisions were Central (Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, and Minnesota) and Coastal (Atlanta, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and San Francisco). Each division winner advanced to the playoffs, expanded to four teams in this year. The Saints and the New York Giants agreed to switch divisions in 1968 and return to the 1967 alignment in 1969. This was done to allow all Eastern Conference teams to visit New York at least once over the three-year period.


1967 NFL season
The NFL season concluded on December 31, when the Green Bay Packers defeated the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL Championship Game (known as the "Ice Bowl"). Two weeks later, on January 14, 1968, the Packers handily defeated the AFL's Oakland Raiders 33–14 in Super Bowl II at Miami's Orange Bowl. This was Vince Lombardi's final game as the Packers' head coach. At the time, it was officially the "AFL-NFL World Championship Game," though the more succinct "Super Bowl" was commonly used.


1967 NFL season
The Baltimore Colts had tied for the NFL's best record in 1967 at 11–1–2, but were excluded from the postseason because of new rules introduced for breaking ties within a division. The L.A. Rams won the division title over Baltimore as a result of the Rams' 34–10 win over Baltimore on the last game of the regular season and a 24–24 tie in Baltimore in mid-October. L.A. had a 24-point edge over Baltimore in head-to-head meetings, giving them the tiebreaker and the Coastal division title. The other three division winners had only nine victories each. A total of nine NFL games ended in ties, the most since 1932 – including the two ties in the AFL (considered official NFL records since the merger) makes this the only season since 1932 with ten or more tied games.


1967 NFL season
Prior to 1975, the playoff sites rotated and were known prior to the start of the season. The hosts in 1967 were the Capitol and Central division winners for the conference championships (first round), and the Western Conference for the championship game. The 1968 playoff hosts were Century, Coastal, and Eastern, respectively, and 1969 was like 1967.


1967 NFL season, Draft
The 1967 NFL/AFL draft was held from March 14 to 15 at New York City's Gotham Hotel. With the first pick of the first common draft, the Baltimore Colts selected defensive tackle Bubba Smith from Michigan State.


1967 NFL season, Division races
The Eastern Conference was split into the Capitol and Century Divisions, and the Western Conference had the Coastal and Central Divisions. (Each of the new division names began with the letter C and contained seven letters.) Under the new system, each team played six division games (a home-and-away series against teams in its division); a game against each of the other four teams in its conference; and a nonconference game against all of the four members of one of the two four-team divisions in the other conference, for a total of 14 games.


1967 NFL season, Division races
In the past, if two teams were tied for the division lead at season's end, a one-game playoff was conducted to break the tie. Starting in 1967, a tiebreaking system was implemented that started with net points in head-to-head competition, followed by the team that had less recently played in a title game. As such, only one team in a division would be the division winner, even if the win-loss record was the same.


1967 NFL season, Final standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1967 NFL season, Final standings, Tiebreakers
Los Angeles won the Coastal Division based on better point differential in head-to-head games (net 24 points) vs. Baltimore. The Rams and Colts played to a 24–24 tie in Baltimore in October before the Rams won 34–10 on the season's final Sunday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The result would be the same under the modern tiebreaker, which relies first on head-to-head record (Los Angeles won the head-to-head series, 1–0–1).


1967 NFL season, Postseason, AFL–NFL World Championship Game
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Oakland Raiders, league champion of the 1967 American Football League season, 33–14, at Orange Bowl in Miami on January 14, 1968.


1967 NFL/AFL draft
The 1967 National Football League draft was conducted March 14–15, 1967, at the Gotham Hotel in New York City. It was the first common draft with the AFL, part of the AFL–NFL merger agreement of June 1966.


1967 NFL/AFL draft
This draft was delayed as new guidelines were established; redshirt (or "future") players were no longer eligible. It began on a Tuesday in mid-March; the previous two years the leagues held their separate drafts on the final Saturday of November, immediately following the college football regular season.


1967 NHL Amateur Draft
The 1967 NHL Amateur Draft was the fifth NHL Entry Draft. It was held June 7, 1967, the day after the 1967 expansion draft, at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.


1967 NHL Amateur Draft, Selections by round
Listed below are the selections in the 1967 NHL amateur draft.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft
The 1967 NHL Expansion Draft was held on June 6, 1967, in the ballroom of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. The draft took place to fill the rosters of the league's six expansion teams for the 1967–68 season: the California Seals, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and the St. Louis Blues.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules
As this ambitious expansion doubled the league's size from six to twelve teams, a large number of players were needed to fill the rosters of the new franchises. Almost all of the leading professional hockey players in North America were already under contract with the six existing franchises; therefore, the draft was established to equitably distribute players from the Original Six clubs (the Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs) to the new teams. Each expansion team was to select twenty players from the established clubs: two goaltenders and eighteen forwards and defencemen. Thus, a total of 120 players were selected.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules
The existing clubs were allowed to exclude a goaltender and eleven other players from eligibility in the draft by naming them to "protected" lists. Also excluded from the draft were Junior players, players who were young enough to play Junior (born on or after June 1, 1946) but who were already playing professionally, and players sold to the minor league Western Hockey League and Central Professional Hockey League before June 1, 1966.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules
The draft began with the drawing of the draft order. Each of the new teams' names was placed on a paper ballot enclosed in a capsule, which was drawn from the bowl of the Stanley Cup by NHL President Clarence Campbell. Montreal Canadiens general manager Sam Pollock helped Campbell draw up the rules for the draft. This draft order was used in the first round to draft goaltenders. The order was then reversed in the second round, which was again specifically for goaltenders.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules
The third round retained the second round's order, and in every subsequent round the draft order would rotate, such that the team that had picked first in the previous round would pick last in the following round while the other teams moved up to fill its place. Each expansion team had three minutes from the time of the previous selection to make its pick.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules
After each of the first, third, fourth, seventh and subsequent players lost by any of the established teams, the team in question chose one undrafted player that it had left unprotected and moved him onto their protected lists. Players who had played professionally for the first time in the 1966–67 season were ineligible from being picked until their respective team had filled their protected list with at least two goaltenders and eighteen other players.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists
Boston: goaltender – Gerry Cheevers; skaters – John Bucyk, Ted Green, Ed Westfall, Tom Williams, John McKenzie, Don Awrey, Ken Hodge, Phil Esposito, Fred Stanfield, Eddie Shack and Gary Doak. Among notable players who were initially unprotected but later added to the list as fills were Dallas Smith, Wayne Cashman, Eddie Johnston, Jean Pronovost, Ron Murphy, Glen Sather and Bob Leiter.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists
Chicago: goaltender – Denis DeJordy; skaters – Bobby Hull, Dennis Hull, Doug Jarrett, Chico Maki, Gilles Marotte, Pit Martin, Stan Mikita, Doug Mohns, Pierre Pilote, Ken Wharram and Pat Stapleton. Among notable players who were initially unprotected but later added to the list as fills were Eric Nesterenko, Wayne Maki and Dave Dryden.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists
Detroit: goaltender – Roger Crozier; skaters – Gordie Howe, Alex Delvecchio, Norm Ullman, Gary Bergman, Paul Henderson, Bruce MacGregor, Ted Hampson, Dean Prentice, Bert Marshall, Doug Roberts and Bob McCord. Among notable players who were initially unprotected but later added to the list as fills were Nick Libett, Howie Young, Gary Jarrett, Floyd Smith and Jim Watson.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists
Montreal: goaltender – Lorne Worsley; skaters – Jean Beliveau, Yvan Cournoyer, J. C. Tremblay, Jacques Laperriere, Ted Harris, Terry Harper, John Ferguson, Ralph Backstrom, Henri Richard, Gilles Tremblay and Bobby Rousseau. Among notable players who were initially unprotected but later added to the list as fills were Rogie Vachon, Claude Larose, Dick Duff, Carol Vadnais, Serge Savard, Danny Grant, Jacques Lemaire and Andre Boudrias.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists
New York: goaltender – Ed Giacomin; skaters – Jean Ratelle, Rod Gilbert, Vic Hadfield, Phil Goyette, Arnie Brown, Bob Nevin, Jim Neilson, Harry Howell, Don Marshall, Orland Kurtenbach and Wayne Hillman. Among notable players who were initially unprotected but later added to the list as fills were Gilles Villemure, Red Berenson, Reggie Fleming, Gary Sabourin and Bob Plager.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists
Toronto: goaltender – Johnny Bower; skaters – Frank Mahovlich, Dave Keon, Tim Horton, Larry Hillman, Bob Pulford, Jim Pappin, Marcel Pronovost, Mike Walton, Ron Ellis, Pete Stemkowski and Brian Conacher. Among notable players who were initially unprotected but later added to the list as fills were Al Smith, George Armstrong, Allan Stanley, Duane Rupp, Murray Oliver, Bronco Horvath, Don Cherry and Red Kelly.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Draft results
The draft began with the picking of the draft order. The Kings picked first, with the North Stars, Flyers, Penguins, Seals and Blues following in that order.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Draft results
With the first pick in the draft the Kings chose future Hall of Fame goaltender Terry Sawchuk, backbone of the great Detroit Red Wings teams of the 1950s and fresh off a Stanley Cup championship with the Maple Leafs. The first skater chosen was center Gord Labossiere of the Canadiens, also by the Kings, as the 13th selection.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Draft results
Commentators compared the draft to a rummage sale, with the Original Six losing only unnecessary if not unwanted players. Some of the expansion teams bolstered their rosters before the Draft by purchasing minor league teams outright, thus gaining the rights to the players on their rosters, such as the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League by the Kings and the Quebec Aces of the AHL by the Flyers, while the North Stars purchased the rights to seven amateur members of the Canadian National Team from Toronto.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Draft results
A poll of minor league sportswriters and executives, following the draft, felt that Philadelphia had gotten the best of the selections and Los Angeles the worst, while the Boston Bruins were the hardest hit of existing clubs. Among the Bruins' players drafted were future Hall of Famer Bernie Parent and future All-Stars J. P. Parise, Poul Popiel, Wayne Connelly, Bill Goldsworthy, Gary Dornhoefer, Ron Schock and Wayne Rivers. It was considered that the Canadiens – reported to have made a number of backroom deals to avoid losing valued unprotected players – fared the best of the established clubs, keeping unprotected talent such as Claude Larose, Carol Vadnais, Serge Savard and Danny Grant.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Draft results
One controversy arose from the retirement of Toronto star Red Kelly, who was expected to become the Kings' coach. As he was still under contract with the Maple Leafs, they had the rights to his services, but Leafs' general manager Punch Imlach insisted that the Kings use one of their picks to select him, and when this did not materialize, Imlach added Kelly to the Leafs' protected list, forcing the Kings to trade their 15th pick, Ken Block, for Kelly.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Draft results
Bill Flett and Poul Popiel were the last players selected in the Draft to be active in the NHL, both playing for the Edmonton Oilers in the 1979–80 season, while Parent, playing in 551 NHL games (not counting his season in the World Hockey Association) had the longest career of any goaltender selected. Popiel was the last player chosen to be active in professional hockey, playing for the Muskegon Mohawks of the International Hockey League in 1982.


1967 NHL Expansion Draft, Draft results
By contrast, Don Caley, the 2nd pick of St. Louis, played only a single game for the Blues, the only game of his NHL career. Career Black Hawk Bill Hay, the 11th pick of the Blues, retired before the Draft; nineteen other skaters played 20 or fewer NHL games after the Draft.


1967 NHL expansion
The National Hockey League (NHL) undertook a major expansion for the 1967–68 season. Six new franchises were added to double the size of the league to 12 teams, making this expansion the largest (in terms of the number of teams created) ever undertaken at one time by an established major sports league. The expansion marked the first change in the composition of the league since 1942, thereby ending the era of the Original Six.


1967 NHL expansion
The six new teams were the Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars, Oakland Seals, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and St. Louis Blues. This expansion, including placing two new clubs on the West Coast, was the result of the league's fears of a rival league that would challenge the NHL for players and the Stanley Cup. In addition, the league hoped that the expansion would result in a lucrative TV contract in the United States.


1967 NHL expansion
The Seals, later renamed the California Golden Seals and then the Cleveland Barons, are the only team from the expansion to cease operations and not reach the Stanley Cup, although they merged with the North Stars. The Blues, Flyers, Kings and Penguins continue to operate in their home cities, while the North Stars would relocate to Dallas, Texas and become the Dallas Stars. All five active teams have won the Stanley Cup at least once, with the Penguins holding the most Cup titles among the 1967 expansion franchises at five.


1967 NHL expansion, Background
For many years after the shakeout caused by the Depression and World War II, the NHL owners staunchly resisted applications to expand beyond the so-called "Original Six" clubs (Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks). Groups representing Philadelphia (which had secured rights to the dormant Montreal Maroons franchise), Los Angeles and the AHL Cleveland Barons were each in turn given conflicting requirements that seemed to contemporary observers designed to disqualify the bids, and it was widely understood that the existing NHL owners wanted no encroachments upon their profits.


1967 NHL expansion, Background
The NHL had been an early leader in television broadcasting, both in Canada and the U.S. However, by 1960, its TV contracts had expired, and the league had none until 1963. The owners saw that the televising of other sports had enhanced the images of those leagues' players, and feared that this would provide leverage at salary time. Already, players were starting to get legal help in negotiating contracts. Additionally, the league did not want to change game start times to suit the networks.


1967 NHL expansion, Background
In 1965, the NHL was told that it would not receive a US television contract without expansion and that the networks were considering televising games from the Western Hockey League, an ostensibly-minor league that had by then expanded into several large West Coast markets and accumulated strong rosters of players excluded from the static NHL lineups of the era. Because of that and a generally favorable environment for alternative sports leagues (the American Football League had become a rousing success around the same time, and the abortive Continental League nonetheless had a role in the expansion of baseball), the NHL's control over major professional hockey was legitimately threatened.


1967 NHL expansion, Background
Fears of the WHL becoming a rival major league and the desire for a lucrative television contract in the US much like the ones Major League Baseball and the National Football League had secured, wore down the opposition; moreover, as more conservative owners retired, a younger guard more receptive to expansion, such as Stafford Smythe in Toronto, David Molson in Montreal, and William M. Jennings in New York, took power.


1967 NHL expansion, Expansion teams
In 1963, Rangers governor William Jennings introduced to his peers the idea of expanding the league to the American West Coast by adding two new teams for the 1964–65 season. His argument was based around concerns that the Western Hockey League intended to operate as a major league in the near future. He also hoped that teams on the west coast would make the league truly national, and improve the chances of returning to television in the United States as the NHL had lost its deal with CBS. While the governors did not agree to the proposal, the topic of expansion arose every time the owners met from then on out.


1967 NHL expansion, Expansion teams
The expansion process formally began in March 1965, when NHL President Clarence Campbell announced that the league proposed to expand its operations through the formation of a second six-team division. San Francisco – Oakland and Vancouver were declared "acceptable cities" with Los Angeles and St. Louis as potential sites. In February 1966, the NHL Board of Governors considered applications from 14 different ownership groups, including five from Los Angeles, two from Pittsburgh, and one each from Minneapolis – Saint Paul, Philadelphia, San Francisco – Oakland, Baltimore, Buffalo, and Vancouver. Cleveland and Louisville had also expressed previous interest but were not represented.


1967 NHL expansion, Expansion teams
Six franchises were ultimately added: the California Seals (San Francisco – Oakland), Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and St. Louis Blues. Had one of the teams been unable to start, a franchise would have then been awarded to Baltimore. Four of those teams are still playing in their original cities under their original names. In 1978, the North Stars merged with the Cleveland Barons, who were the relocated Seals, and in 1993 the North Stars became the Dallas Stars. Both the San Francisco-Oakland market and the Minneapolis-St. Paul markets were eventually granted new teams as the San Jose Sharks and the Minnesota Wild.


1967 NHL expansion, Expansion teams, Opposition
Canadian fans, including Prime Minister Lester Pearson, were irate that no Canadian teams were added, particularly since Vancouver had been generally considered a lock for a team. Internal considerations took a hand in that since as Montreal and Toronto were not interested in sharing CBC television revenues with another Canadian club, and Chicago owner Arthur Wirtz's support was reputedly contingent on the creation of a St. Louis team, although that city had not submitted a formal bid, to purchase the decrepit St. Louis Arena, which the Black Hawks ownership then also owned.


1967 NHL expansion, Expansion teams, Opposition
Buffalo also nearly got a team over nearby Pittsburgh until Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney, who would serve as a minority investor in the Penguins early years, persuaded the Norris brothers, whom he knew through their common interest in horse racing, to vote for Pittsburgh in the expansion process. Vancouver and Buffalo both subsequently received teams for the NHL's next expansion in 1970.


1967 NHL expansion, Expansion teams, Opposition
On a more general note, many traditionalists resisted expansion, claiming it would dilute the talent in the league. Even some proponents of expansion were worried at the idea of immediately doubling the NHL's size and wanted to ease teams in gradually, as Major League Baseball was doing.


1967 NHL expansion, Expansion teams, Opposition
The expansion fee was US$2 million, and players taken in the very strict expansion draft came at a cost of $50,000 each. Experts tended to see that as high, and most expansion teams were seen as having no hope of competing successfully with the established teams in the near future.


1967 NHL expansion, Expansion teams, Opposition
Because of the inherent competitive imbalance, there was some support for the idea of placing the new teams in a completely separate division or conference, with a separate schedule for the first few seasons and then gradually integrating the new teams into the established NHL, much like the then-progressing AFL-NFL merger was being carried out. Ultimately, the league partly implemented the idea by placing all six of the new teams in the new West Division. Alternative proposals included putting Detroit and Chicago in the West with Pittsburgh and Philadelphia going to the East. In a surprising concession, the league also agreed to implement a strictly divisional playoff bracket, meaning that four expansion teams would make the playoffs, and an expansion team was guaranteed a slot in the Stanley Cup Finals.


1967 NHL expansion, Expansion teams, Changes
The new teams offered a big change to the league. After seeing virtually the same red/blue/black uniforms for over 20 years, purple, green, sky blue, and orange were introduced. Teams now regularly travelled between cities by air because of the distances involved; at the time, all of the Original Six cities had daily overnight passenger rail service between one another.


1967 NHL expansion, Aftermath
The 1967 expansion marked the end of the Original Six era and the beginning of a new era of the NHL. The expansion, Bobby Orr's record $1 million contract in 1971, and the formation of the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1972 forever changed the landscape of the North American professional game. It was the WHA that ended up being the NHL's chief rival during the 1970s, while the Western Hockey League ceased operations in 1974.


1967 NHL expansion, Aftermath
The NHL's first expansion period ended in 1974 by which time the league had tripled in size to 18 teams, and then merged with the WHA by absorbing four of its teams in 1979. As a result, the NHL retained its status as the premier professional ice hockey league in North America; no other league has attempted to compete against the NHL since then.


1967 NHL expansion, Aftermath
However, the NHL's other goal of immediately securing a lucrative TV contract in the U.S. similar to MLB and the NFL never fully materialized until decades later. Despite the expansion and the subsequent merger with the WHA, NHL broadcasting on a national scale in the U.S. continued to be spotty between 1967 and 1981. Although NBC and CBS held rights at various times, neither network carried anything close to a full schedule, even carrying only selected games of the Stanley Cup Finals.


1967 NHL expansion, Aftermath
All the 1967 expansion teams were placed in the same division in 1967–68, so their success was largely gauged relative to each other before the 1974 realignment, which radically mixed up all of the league's teams into four divisions and two conferences. Subsequent expansions and realignments separated both the Original Six and the 1967 expansion teams even further, essentially reviving the league's earlier alternative plan to put Detroit and Chicago in the West, and Pittsburgh and Philadelphia in the East. After the 1998 realignment, which reorganized the league into six divisions, only the Flyers and the Penguins are in the same division. When the league realigned again in 2013 to a different four division setup, the Stars and Blues were placed in the same division.


1967 NHL expansion, Aftermath
The St. Louis Blues immediately made an impact by appearing in three consecutive Stanley Cup Finals in the first three years, but were swept in each. Their first Stanley Cup title (in 2019) came 49 years after their previous finals appearance. Although they were the first team from the expansion to reach the finals, the Blues were the last of the five active 1967 teams to win the Stanley Cup.


1967 NHL expansion, Aftermath
After the 1969–70 season, the league moved Chicago to the West Division and altered the playoff format to force Eastern and Western teams to face each other prior to the final. It would not be until 1974 when an expansion team would best an Original Six team in a playoff series or even reach the Final again. That season, the Philadelphia Flyers, who had steadily built a strong team, would go on to defeat Boston to win the Stanley Cup.


1967 NHL expansion, Aftermath
They would repeat as champions in 1975 by defeating the Buffalo Sabres in the first modern Stanley Cup Final to not feature an Original Six club. As of the end of the 2016-17 NHL season, which marked the 49th season for the 1967 expansion teams, the Flyers are the most successful of the expansion team in terms of all-time points percentage (.576), second only to the Montreal Canadiens (.590) in NHL history. Additionally, the Flyers have the most appearances in the league semi-finals (known as the conference finals since the 1981–82 season) out of all 25 expansion teams with 16 and the most Stanley Cup Finals appearances with a total of eight.


1967 NHL expansion, Aftermath
The Pittsburgh Penguins were largely unsuccessful in the beginning, failing to win their division until the 1990–91 season, but accumulated draft picks and built a strong team that would win two consecutive Stanley Cups in 1991 and 1992. In 2009, the Penguins became the first of the 1967 expansion teams to win three Cups. Then in 2016, Pittsburgh tied the New York Rangers (an Original Six team) and the New York Islanders (a 1972 expansion team) with four Cups. After successfully defending their title the following year, the franchise tied the Edmonton Oilers (at five Cups), with the Oilers joining the league in the 1979 merger with the WHA.


1967 NHL expansion, Aftermath
The Los Angeles Kings did not make a Stanley Cup Finals appearance until 1993 during the Wayne Gretzky era. The Kings did not return to the Cup Finals again until 2012, when they finally won their first Cup. Los Angeles won the Cup again in 2014.


1967 NHL expansion, Aftermath
While four of the 1967 expansion teams still play in their original cities, one has relocated and one ceased operations. The Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area-based franchise was the least successful of the 1967 expansion teams: noncompetitive both on the ice and at the box office, the club eventually moved to Cleveland to become the Barons in 1976. While the Minnesota North Stars were in a traditional hockey area, the team was struggling financially.


1967 NHL expansion, Aftermath
In 1978, the two ownership groups merged the franchises into the North Stars with the Barons' owners Gordon and George Gund III becoming the majority owners of the team. Although, the merged North Stars improved on the ice and made two finals appearances in 1981 and 1991, they continued to have financial difficulties.


1967 NHL expansion, Aftermath
In late 1980s, the Gunds attempted to relocate the North Stars to the Bay Area, but were denied by the league. The NHL and the Gunds came to a compromise with the Gunds selling the North Stars and were given an expansion team that became the San Jose Sharks in 1991. As part of the compromise, the North Stars and Sharks had a player dispersal and expansion draft in which the North Stars' roster was split between the two teams and then each took part in the expansion draft.


1967 NHL expansion, Aftermath
The new owners of the North Stars only kept the team in Minnesota for two more seasons and moved to Dallas, Texas, in 1993 to become the Dallas Stars, eventually winning their first Cup in 1999. The NHL returned to the Twin Cities market when the Minnesota Wild began play in 2000.


1967 NHL expansion, Aftermath, 50th Anniversary season
During the 2016–17 NHL season, the four "expansion six" teams still in their original cities had festivities commemorating their 50th year in the NHL and each unveiled uniform patches to be worn by those teams. The patches were unveiled on February 9, 2016, on the 50th anniversary of the NHL awarding the franchises, which led the Penguins to unveil a patch with three Stanley Cups. With the Penguins winning that year's Stanley Cup Finals, their patch was modified to have four Cups. The season ended with the Penguins clinching their fifth Cup.


1967 NHL expansion, Timeline of the 1967 expansion teams
Among the six 1967 expansion teams, four still play in their original cities. One has since relocated, while the other relocated and then was merged out of existence.


1967 NHRA Winternationals
The 1967 NHRA Winternationals (commonly known as the Winternats) were a National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag racing event, held at Auto Club Raceway, Pomona, California on 5 February.


1967 NHRA Winternationals, Events
More Aggravation III took home both the AA/CD (supercharged A Competition Dragster) trophy and "Best Appearing Car" award.


1967 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Fuel, Round One
In round one, Jim Bollinger lost do Danny Ongais. Dave Beebe was defeated by Gene Goleman. Conrad "Connie" Kalitta eliminated Mike Snively. Jerry Ruth fell to "Sneaky Pete" Robinson.


1967 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Fuel, Round Two
In the semi-final, Ongais lost to Goleman and Robinson was eliminated by Kalitta.


1967 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Altered
The Altered class win went to William “Wild Willie” Borsch, at the wheel of the AA/FA Winged Express.


1967 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Gas
In the Top Gas final, Kelly Brown lost to Gordon Collett, who claimed a US$3000 prize.


1967 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Competition Eliminator
More Aggravation III took home the AA/CD trophy, with a best effort of 7.80 seconds at 190 mph (310 km/h), on gasoline.


1967 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Super Stock
Eddie Vasquez Jr. and his 1966 Chevy II won Super Stock Eliminator, defeating the 1965 A990 Plymouth of Ed Miller.


1967 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Stock
Graham Douglas and Ed Forys won the 1967 Jr. Stock Eliminator, 14.42 seconds at 95.94 MPH. Defeated 1952 Oldsmobile of Keith Berg. Source: Junior Stock by Doug BoyceISBN 978-1-934709-91-7


1967 NSWRFL season
The 1967 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the 60th season of Sydney's professional rugby league football competition, Australia's first. The introduction of the Cronulla-Sutherland and Penrith clubs saw a total of twelve teams from across the Sydney area compete for the J.J. Giltinan Shield and WD & HO Wills Cup during the season, which culminated in a grand final between South Sydney and Canterbury-Bankstown. This was also the first live televised broadcast of a football grand final of any code in Australia.


1967 NSWRFL season, Season summary
The 1967 season was the first played under the limited tackle rule, replacing the previous era (since the code's 1908 inception) of unlimited tackles. The number of tackles was four and would remain at that number for only four years before being increased to six in 1971.


1967 NSWRFL season, Season summary
Also this season Lidcombe Oval became the Western Suburbs club's homeground.


1967 NSWRFL season, Season summary
The twelve sides met each other twice in twenty-two regular premiership rounds before the top four teams battled out four finals. For the sixth consecutive season St. George finished as minor premiers. The two newcomers to the premiership, Penrith and Cronulla-Sutherland, finished the season second last and last respectively.


1967 NSWRFL season, Season summary
In 1967 the Nine Network reached agreement with the NSWRFL for a fee of $5,000 for TV broadcasting rights for the grand final.


1967 NSWRFL season, Season summary
South Sydney won their seventeenth premiership, defeating Canterbury-Bankstown in their first grand final since 1947. This finally spelled the end for St. George's monopoly on Grand Final wins which lasted over a decade, and commenced a new period of Souths' dominance, in which they would win four premierships in a five-year period.


1967 NSWRFL season, Season summary
The 1967 season also saw the retirement from the League of future Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame inductee, Reg Gasnier.


1967 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
1967 saw the NSWRFL expand to twelve teams with the introduction of the Penrith and Cronulla-Sutherland clubs. This was the first time the number of clubs had increased since 1947 and the first time ever the number of clubs competing totalled more than ten.


1967 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
21st seasonGround: Brookvale Oval Coach: Wally O'ConnellCaptain: Ken Day, Fred Jones


1967 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
1st seasonGround: Penrith StadiumCoach: Leo TrevenaCaptain: Tony Brown→ Laurie Fagan


1967 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
Live television broadcast coverage of grand finals commenced in 1967 with the match being shown on all four Sydney channels. As a result, the crowd of 56,358 was the lowest seen at a grand final since the rainy 1962 St George and Wests decider.


1967 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
South Sydney, led by new skipper John Sattler, began their period of dominance by downing Canterbury in a torrid 80 minutes played in bleak conditions with a light rain throughout. Taylforth and Eric Simms opened accounts with early goals, before John O'Neill barged over for a close-range try from dummy half. Canterbury's Ron Raper responded with a field-goal kicked from halfway and then Taylforth punished Souths with two successful penalty goals after firstly a clash between Kevin Ryan and O'Neill and then a scrum infringement. Canterbury led 8–5.


1967 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
A turning point came just before half-time when Rabbitohs second rower Bob McCarthy swooped on a lofted pass from Canterbury's Col Brown intended for Johnny Greaves and ran the length of the field to take Souths into the break with a 10–8 lead.


1967 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
Taylforth kicked his fourth goal to take the scores level nine minutes into the second-half but from that point on the match became a tight arm wrestle. With five minutes remaining Canterbury's Ross Kidd was penalised for a scrum feed and Simms kicked the Rabbitohs to a two-point lead which they held to give them their 17th premiership title.


1967 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final
It marked the beginning of a new golden period for Souths and Ron Coote, Mike Cleary, Bob McCarthy, O'Neill, Sattler and Simms would win four premierships in the next five seasons and figure prominently in representative squads of that period.


1967 National 500
The 1967 National 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series stock car race that was held on October 15, 1967, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.


1967 National 500
The transition to purpose-built racecars began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade. Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s.


1967 National 500, Race report
The race was held on a dry circuit; with no precipitation recorded around the speedway.


1967 National 500, Race report
Sixty thousand live spectators attended the event where Buddy Baker managed to defeat Bobby Isaac by more than one lap; becoming the 100th different driver to win what is now known as a Monster Energy Cup NASCAR Series race. Nine cautions were handed out by NASCAR officials for 64 laps. The race took three hours and fifty minutes to fully complete. Cale Yarborough achieved the pole position with a qualifying speed of 130.317 miles per hour (209.725 km/h). In reality, the speeds in the race actually approached 130.317 miles per hour (209.725 km/h).


1967 National 500, Race report
Whitey Gerken finished in last place due to a crash on lap 2 out of the 334 laps raced on a paved track spanning 1.500 miles (2.414 km). All 44 of the drivers on the racing grid were American-born males. Future three time Formula One Champion Jackie Stewart entered but he failed to qualify.


1967 National 500, Race report
Richard Petty 10-race winning streak ended at this race. Bobby Wawak made his best career finish as an owner with one of his vehicles finishing in seventh place. The qualifying speeds recorded for the race were an average for a 4-lap qualifying run. J.T. Putney raced his way into this one by winning the last chance qualifying race. He then finished 11th in the main event with Henley Gray, another driver who raced in, taking 12th.


1967 National 500, Race report
LeeRoy Yarbrough was scheduled to drive in Junior Johnson's No. 26 vehicle but the car was wrecked in practice due to a fire extinguisher going off automatically. 22 lead changes were made amongst seven different leaders.


1967 National 500, Race report
Notable crew chiefs on attendance for the race were Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Jake Elder among others.


1967 National 500, Race report
Don Schissler and Dub Simpson made their NASCAR debuts here. The total prize purse for this race was $87,005 ($675,287 when adjusted for inflation). Buddy Baker received $18,950 in winnings ($147,080 when adjusted for inflation) while last-place finisher Whitey Gerken walked away with only $625 ($4,851 when adjusted for inflation).


1967 National 500, Race report, Qualifying
Note: The speeds shown are an average for a 4-lap qualifying run.


1967 National 500, Race report, Qualifying
The first 37 spots in the field were set via qualifying. The final 7 spots were filled by the top 7 finishers in a 20 lap qualifying race.


1967 National Challenge Cup
The 1967 National Challenge Cup was the 54th annual national open soccer championship held by the United States Soccer Football Association. The tournament was won by Greek American Atlas of New York City.


1967 National Invitation Tournament
The 1967 National Invitation Tournament was a single-elimination postseason college basketball tournament. Fourteen National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA Division I teams participated in the tournament. Southern Illinois, in its first season of Division I basketball, defeated Marquette 71–56 in the championship game. SIU's Walt Frazier was the tournament MOP.


1967 National Invitation Tournament, Selected teams
Below is a list of the 14 teams selected for the tournament.


1967 National Society of Film Critics Awards
The 2nd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given by the National Society of Film Critics in January 1968, honored the best in film for 1967.


1967 National Society of Film Critics Awards
The member critics voting for the awards were Hollis Alpert of the Saturday Review, Brendan Gill of The New Yorker, Philip T. Hartung of Commonweal, Pauline Kael of The New Yorker, Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic, Arthur Knight of Saturday Review,  Joseph Morgenstern of Newsweek, Andrew Sarris of The Village Voice, Richard Schickel of Life, Wilfrid Sheed of Esquire, and John Simon of The New Leader.


1967 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Picture
2. Bonnie and Clyde (9 points) 3. Closely Watched Trains (8 points)


1967 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actor
2. Marcello Mastroianni – The Stranger (8 points) 2. Yves Montand – The War Is Over (8 points)


1967 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actress
2. Annie Girardot – Live for Life (20 points) 3. Edith Evans – The Whisperers (17 points)


1967 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actor
2. Jean Martin – The Battle of Algiers (7 points) 3. Brian Keith – Reflections in a Golden Eye (6 points)


1967 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actress
2. Vivien Merchant – Accident (10 points) 3. Ellen O'Mara – Up the Down Staircase (8 points)


1967 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Screenplay
2. Ingmar Bergman – Persona (13 points) 3. Jiří Menzel and Bohumil Hrabal – Closely Watched Trains (10 points)


1967 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Cinematography
2. Conrad L. Hall – Cool Hand Luke and In Cold Blood (9 points) 3. Sven Nykvist – Persona (6 points) 3. Nicolas Roeg – Far from the Madding Crowd (6 points)


1967 Nauruan Constitutional Convention election
Constitutional Convention elections were held in Nauru on 19 December 1967.


1967 Nauruan Constitutional Convention election, Background
The Constitutional Convention consisted 27 elected members and the nine elected members of the Legislative Council. A total of 96 candidates contested the 27 elected seats. There were fewer than 1,000 registered voters.


1967 Nauruan Constitutional Convention election, Aftermath
The 36 members of the Convention met for the first time on 3 January 1968, with the purpose of drawing up a new constitution in preparation for independence later in the year.


1967 Nauruan Constitutional Convention election, Aftermath
Several issues were debated during the Convention's sitting, including whether the death penalty should be expressly banned by the new constitution (rejected by 26 votes to 8), whether the government should have the power to levy taxes (passed by 17 votes to 15), whether religious schools should be fully funded by the state (defeated by 15 votes to 12), and whether there should be an increase in the royalties from phosphate mining (passed by 14 votes to 12 but later overturned by a vote of 18 to 8).


1967 Nauruan Constitutional Convention election, Aftermath
On 29 January 1968 the Convention approved the new constitution unanimously. It provided for an 18-member Legislative Assembly with a three-year term. The Assembly would then appoint a five-member Council of State to exercise executive power.


1967 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1967 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy (USNA) as an independent during the 1967 NCAA University Division football season. The team was led by third-year head coach Bill Elias.


1967 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 1967 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska and member of the Big Eight Conference in the 1967 NCAA University Division football season. The team was coached by Bob Devaney and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.


1967 Neftyanik Baku season
The Neftyanik Baku 1967 season was Neftyanik Baku's 11th  Soviet Top League season.


1967 Neiva earthquake
The 1967 Neiva earthquake occurred at 10:24 local time (UTC-05) on February 9 in Colombia. The epicentre of the earthquake was located in San Vicente del Caguán in the department of Caquetá. The earthquake, associated with the Algeciras Fault, part of the megaregional Eastern Frontal Fault System, had a moment magnitude of 7.0 and an intensity of VIII and was felt in northwestern South America from Caracas to Iquitos and Buenaventura to Mitú. 350 aftershocks were registered in the following month. The earthquake produced 98 fatalities and approximately 600,000 USD in damage.


1967 Neiva earthquake, Description
While the earthquake is commonly referred to as the Neiva earthquake, the epicentre was not located in Neiva as first reported, or Algeciras as later reports state, yet in San Vicente del Caguán in northern Caquetá. The earthquake had a moment magnitude of 7.0 and an intensity of VIII. The earthquake was felt from Caracas in Venezuela in the north to Iquitos in Peru in the south and from Buenaventura in southwestern Colombia in the west to Mitú, at the border with Brazil in the east. In the three days after the earthquake twenty aftershocks were felt and the seismological observation centre of Bogotá registered 350 aftershocks in the next month.


1967 Neiva earthquake, Description
Activity of the Algeciras Fault, a dextral strike-slip fault and segment of the megaregional Eastern Frontal Fault System that forms the boundary between the North Andes and South American Plates, is associated with the earthquake. The earthquake was manifested surface rupturing or cracking in the vicinity of El Paraíso, which is situated on the fault trace northeast of Algeciras.


1967 Neiva earthquake, Description, Damage
The areas of Colombia, El Paraíso and Vegalarga were destroyed by the earthquake and Neiva and other populated areas in the north of Huila and south of Tolima notably affected. In Neiva, 15 fatalities were counted and 100,000 people affected. Part of the church of Neiva collapsed. In the Colombian capital Bogotá, the tower of the San Juan de Dios Church collapsed as well as at least fifty walls as a result of the earthquake. A total damage of 600,000 USD was estimated as a result of the earthquake, of which 130,000,000 pesos in Huila alone.


1967 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Ferencvárosi TC won the championship.


1967 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball)
The 1967 Nemzeti Bajnokság I is the 17th season of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, Hungary's premier Handball league.


1967 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball), Final list
* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point


1967 Netherlands Antilles island council elections
Island council elections were held in the Netherlands Antilles in 1967. They were the fifth elections for the Island Council.


1967 Netherlands Antilles island council elections, Aruba
Two parties already present in the Council retained representation in the Island Council; the Aruban People's Party (AVP) and the Aruban Patriotic Party (PPA). In addition, the Aruba National Union (UNA) formed a combined list with the Independent Aruban Party (PIA) and Revolutionary Workers' Party (PRO) under the abbreviation UNA-P.P.


1967 Netherlands Antilles island council elections, Sint Maarten
The Sint Maarten General elections which was scheduled for 1967 to elect the 5 members of the Island Council, never took place because only the incumbent Democratic Party postulated a list.


1967 Nevada Wolf Pack football team
The 1967 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the University of Nevada during the 1967 NCAA College Division football season. Nevada competed as a member of the Far Western Conference (FWC). The Wolf Pack were led by ninth-year head coach Dick Trachok and played their home games at Mackay Stadium.


1967 Nevada Wolf Pack football team, Previous season
The Wolf Pack finished the 1966 season 6–3 and 3–3 in FWC play to finish tied in third place.


1967 New Brunswick electoral redistribution
The 1967 New Brunswick electoral redistribution was the first redistribution of electoral district boundaries in the New Brunswick, Canada, since 1926, and the first change in number of members since 1946.


1967 New Brunswick electoral redistribution
At the time, New Brunswick operated on electoral districts with fixed boundaries, and the number of members to which they were entitled varied based upon their respective population. From 1926 to 1967, each of the province's 15 counties was a district. The cities of Saint John and Moncton were districts in their own rights. These districts elected members using the bloc voting system.


1967 New Brunswick electoral redistribution
Under this redistribution, all six of New Brunswick's cities became electoral districts, and Saint John County was split into two districts, creating a total of 22 ridings. For the first time since 1946, this created several districts that returned only one member using the first past the post system.


1967 New Brunswick general election
The 1967 New Brunswick general election was held on October 23, 1967, to elect 58 members to the 46th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada.


1967 New Brunswick general election
The governing Liberal Party, under Premier Louis Robichaud, had just completed implementing its landmark Equal Opportunity program, which drastically improved government services in poorer and francophone regions of the province. Several Liberal cabinet ministers had quit politics during the previous term, including some who were uncomfortable with Robichaud's policies. Education minister Henry Irwin was fired after having an extramarital affair.


1967 New Brunswick general election
The Progressive Conservatives had selected Charlie Van Horne as leader in November 1966. Van Horne, whose cowboy hat had become his trademark to voters, had faced several lawsuits over his personal financial matters during the 1960s which caused him to sell his hotel in Campbellton, but claimed they had all been settled. Liberals claimed that industrialist K.C. Irving, who was in his own personal battle with Robichaud, was funding Van Horne's campaign. Conservatives were hopeful that Van Horne's charisma and speaking skills could surpass those of Robichaud.


1967 New Brunswick general election
During the campaign, critics accused Van Horne of being vague on his promises for "a new tomorrow". He had pledged to increase health care and education funding while reducing taxes, with no answer as to how it would be accomplished.


1967 New Brunswick general election
Questions arose as to the Conservative campaign's funding. He campaigned across the province in a Cadillac, while Don Messer, one of the most popular musicians in Atlantic Canada at the time, accompanied Van Horne at several campaign stops. However, Equal Opportunity was wildly unpopular in many Conservative strongholds and the Liberals had been perceived as arrogant. Polls showed a close race.


1967 New Brunswick general election
Robichaud campaigned under the slogan of "a responsible government". With the entire campaign focused on attacking Van Horne, he used a dramatic effect of listing all of the Conservatives' promises on paper and unfurling it across a room. In the final days of the campaign, two Toronto newspapers ran unflattering articles about Van Horne, to which he threatened to sue the authors. The Conservative reaction is believed to have turned the results decidedly in Robichaud's favour.


1967 New Brunswick general election
The New Brunswick New Democratic Party participated in a New Brunswick provincial election for the first time, having sat out of the 1963 election. The party ran only three candidates, all of whom contested the multi-member district of Northumberland and none of whom were elected.


1967 New Brunswick general election, Sources
Louis J. Robichaud: A Not So Quiet Revolution by Michel Cormier, translated by Jonathan Kaplansky. Faye Editions, 2004.


1967 New Caledonian legislative election
Legislative elections were held in New Caledonia on 9 July 1967. The result was a victory for the Caledonian Union, which won 22 of the 35 seats.


1967 New Caledonian legislative election, Campaign
A total of 174 candidates contested the 35 seats. The New Caledonian branch of the Union for the New Republic (led by Georges Chatenay) called for more autonomy and for a second smelting company to be introduced to the territory to create competition for Société Le Nickel.


1967 New Caledonian legislative election, Results
The three minor party Assembly members were sympathetic to the Caledonian Union.


1967 New Caledonian legislative election, Aftermath
Following the elections, Entente leader Henri Lafleur submitted a petition to annul the results. The petition was rejected on 28 August. He appealed on 4 November. Rock Pidjot also filed a complaint about the election in East constituency, where Caledonian Union candidate and High Chief Goa Alphonse (who was expected to be elected) lost after a fortune teller told his tribe that the chief would die if elected. The complaint was rejected.


1967 New Caledonian legislative election, Aftermath
André Vacher resigned from the Assembly on 8 August 1967 and was replaced by Charles Attiti. Paul Malignon resigned on 14 June 1970 and was replaced by Marcel Dubois. Jean Caba died on 8 September 1970 and was replaced by Kecine Léonard Une. Lafleur resigned on 20 November 1971 and was replaced by Lionel Cherrier. Edouard Pentecost died on 5 October 1971 and was replaced by Michel Kauma.


1967 New Hampshire Wildcats football team
The 1967 New Hampshire Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Hampshire as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1967 NCAA College Division football season. In its second year under head coach Joe Yukica, the team compiled a 5–3 record (2–3 against conference opponents) and finished fourth out of six teams in the Yankee Conference.


1967 New Jersey State Senate election
The 1967 New Jersey State Senate elections were held on November 7.


1967 New Jersey State Senate election
The elections took place midway through Governor Richard J. Hughes's second term and resulted in a historic landslide for the Republican Party. The new state legislative map still elected most Senators county-wide, allowing Republicans to gain a large majority by sweeping every county except Mercer, Middlesex, and Hudson.


1967 New Jersey State Senate election, Background, Redistricting
Until 1965, the New Jersey State Senate was composed of 21 Senators with each county electing one Senator. After the U.S. Supreme Court decision Reynolds v. Sims required legislative districts to be approximately equal in population (a principle known as "one man, one vote"), New Jersey entered a decade-long period of redistricting. In 1965, the Senate was increased to 29 members, with larger counties given multiple seats and some smaller counties sharing one or two Senators.


1967 New Jersey State Senate election, Background, Redistricting
For the 1967 election, the map was entirely redone. Ten new seats were added and strict county lines were no longer followed. Several existing districts were split up into districts smaller than a single county. The result was, generally, a gain for the state's urban counties.


1967 New Mexico Lobos football team
The 1967 New Mexico Lobos football team was an American football team that represented the University of New Mexico in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1967 NCAA University Division football season. In their eighth season under head coach Bill Weeks, the Lobos compiled a 1–9 record (0–5 against WAC opponents) and were outscored, 433 to 152.


1967 New Mexico Lobos football team
Jim Boller and Rex Hennington were the team captains. The team's statistical leaders included Terry Stone with 1,946 passing yards, David Bookert with 671 rushing yards, and Ace Hendricks with 1,094 receiving yards and 36 points scored.


1967 New Mexico State Aggies football team
The 1967 New Mexico State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico State University as an independent during the 1967 NCAA University Division football season. In their tenth year under head coach Warren B. Woodson, the Aggies compiled a 7–2–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 346 to 145. The team played its six home games at Memorial Stadium in Las Cruces, New Mexico.


1967 New Mexico State Aggies football team
The team's statistical leaders included quarterback Sal Olivas with 2,225 passing yards, running back Doug Dalton with 1,123 rushing yards, and Mike Carroll with 771 receiving yards.


1967 New Mexico State Aggies football team
Shortly after the season ended, Warren Woodson retired from his dual posts as the school's head football coach and athletic director. Woodson was within weeks of reaching the school's mandatory retirement age of 65 years.


1967 New Orleans Saints season
The 1967 New Orleans Saints season was the inaugural season for the franchise. The team went 3–11, finishing in last place in the four-team NFL Eastern Conference Capitol Division.


1967 New Orleans Saints season, Offseason, Expansion draft
The Saints made a splash in the expansion draft by selecting Green Bay Packers running back Paul Hornung. Lombardi was distraught when the Saints selected Hornung in the draft. In later years, Hornung revealed that he spoke to Saints coach Tom Fears prior to the draft. Fears was a former assistant in Green Bay and Fears felt that Hornung would help sell tickets in New Orleans. Several weeks later, the Saints also signed Packers running back Jim Taylor. Taylor had felt underpaid and under-appreciated under Lombardi. An examination at the Scripps Clinic in California found the severing of the fifth, sixth, and seventh vertebrae, and damaged nerve roots in the spinal cord of Hornung. It was decided that Hornung would retire and he never played a game for the Saints.


1967 New Orleans Saints season, Pre-season
The Saints played six pre-season games, finishing with a record of 5–1.


1967 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season
Things couldn't have looked better for the Saints and their inaugural season. A 5–1 preseason record was followed by a 94-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by rookie John Gilliam to begin the 1967 season against the Los Angeles Rams. (There is a rumor in the annals of New Orleans Saints legends that following this play many fans allegedly heard another fan in Tulane Stadium shout out aloud "This is going to be the greatest football team in history!" – thus jinxing the Saints for their first 20 years of existence).


1967 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season
Apparently the Rams were not informed of this declaration as they quickly recovered from the opening blow to win 27–13. The first-ever win for the Saints came in week 8 when wide receiver Flea Roberts scored 3 touchdowns in a 31–24 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. With additional triumphs over Atlanta and Washington the 3 wins for the year matched the most for an expansion team.


1967 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season
Former Green Bay great Jim Taylor led the team with 390 yards rushing and 17th round pick rookie Danny Abramowicz from Xavier College led in receiving with 50 grabs for 721 yards and 6 touchdowns. Defensive back Dave Whitshell led the team as well as the NFL in interceptions with 10 steals—still a New Orleans Saint season record.


1967 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1967 New South Wales Road Racing Championship
The 1967 New South Wales Road Racing Championship was a motor race staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia on 27 March 1967. The race was contested over 13 laps at a total distance of approximately 50 miles.


1967 New South Wales Road Racing Championship
The race was won by Kevin Bartlett driving a Brabham BT11A Climax.


1967 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 1967 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 1 January 1967 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1967.


1967 New Year Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.


1967 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The 1967 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1966 and the beginning of 1967, and were announced on 1 January 1967.


1967 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1967 New York City riot
The 1967 New York City riot was one of many riots that occurred during the Long, hot summer of 1967. The riot began after an off-duty police officer, Patrolman Anthony Cinquemani shot and killed a Puerto Rican man named Renaldo Rodriquez who he claimed was carrying a knife while trying to break up a fight.


1967 New York City riot, Background, Puerto Rican migration and conditions
Between 1943 and 1960 over 1/3 of Puerto Rico's population would move predominantly to the Northern United States cities of New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago. Puerto Ricans along with their descendants born in the US would face poverty and over policing in the urban areas they often lived in. The descendants of original migrants would be influenced by several factors such as: the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, the urbanized environment and  industrial decline along with increased levels of racial and economic segregation. With deindustrialization, many jobs would be lost. 47% of Puerto Ricans would be considered as being unemployed or underemployed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.


1967 New York City riot, Background, Puerto Rican migration and conditions
By the time the 1960s had been reached, Manhattan had two sizable Puerto Rican communities located in East Harlem and the Lower East Side.


1967 New York City riot, Background, Puerto Rican migration and conditions
During the 1960s and 1970s many cities with large amounts of Puerto Rican populations would experience riots in them. In Harlem the police were used to experiencing conflicts with crowds. Usually crowd responses led to riots themselves.


1967 New York City riot, Background, Earlier incidents in Harlem
Tensions in the neighborhood involving Puerto Ricans increased after two incidents that happened in the neighborhood. The first being when a police officer killed two Puerto Ricans, Victor Rodriguez and Maximo Solero on November 15, 1963. The two were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and the police would claim that one of them would pull out a gun while under arrest in their car. The police would say that this justified the usage of lethal force towards them. The two officers would not be charged in response to this incident. Skepticism was encountered with the story and protests happened afterwards and the Upper West Side's New York City Police Department (NYPD) would be picketed. During January 1964, the NYPD would announce that they would intensify anti-bias programs relating to minorities and especially Puerto Ricans for there officers.


1967 New York City riot, Background, Earlier incidents in Harlem
The second major incident in the area involving Puerto Ricans being killed by the police that led to raised tensions was on February 17 1964. An off-duty police officer would intervene in a fight happening outside a bar and ended up shooting and killing 18-year-old Puerto Rican, Francisco Rodriguez Jr. who had fled from the scene after the police officer intervened. Sometime afterwards a petition would circulate. During February 23, the East 104th Street NYPD station would be picketed that was sponsored by the East Harlem Tenants Council, a rent strike group that was created 5 days prior.


1967 New York City riot, Background, Earlier incidents in Harlem
The following day, a funeral march would be held for Francisco at 9 AM with 5 East Harlem protestant churches giving out leaflets urging them to attend a day before the march was held. Gilberto Gerena‐Valentin, a member of the steering committee of the National Association for Puerto Rican Civil Rights would say that his association was considering a rent strike that would be citywide on February 29 as a way to call attention towards slum conditions along with rat and cockroach infestations.


1967 New York City riot, Inciting incident
Just after midnight on July 23, 1967; two plainclothes white off-duty police officers, Thomas Ryan and Anthony Cinquemani were cruising the Spanish Harlem neighborhood. They encountered a brawl where Renaldo Rodriguez was fighting another man with a knife; at the time these fights were common in the neighborhood and fatal shootings by police officers were common. According to a police report on the incident, when Cinquemani and his partner arrived at the scene one of the men involved named Rodriguez would approach him with a knife. Cinquemani claimed he felt threatened and as a result drew his revolver and identified himself. He killed Rodriguez after repeatedly shooting him in his chest.


1967 New York City riot, Riots, July 23
A crowd of about 400 Puerto Ricans and African Americans formed at Third Avenue and 111th Street where the shooting took place. Soon after the crowd formed, the New York Police Department (NYPD) sent the Tactical Patrol Force (TPF) to where they had gathered. The TPF were disliked by minorities in the city and when they arrived it started a clash with the crowd.


1967 New York City riot, Riots, July 23
Mayor John Lindsay would visit the area where the riots happened at that day as he was legally mandated to by state law and would attempt to cool down the violence by talking to the crowds that had gathered. During the times he visited the area he urged the local Puerto Rican community to create committees where they would meet at the Gracie Mansion to hear their issues. During the meetings later toward the day, an agreement was reached that said local leaders would restore in the area if the TPF was temporarily decommissioned. Also, during that day two people, Emma Haddock and Luis Antonio Torres would be killed by the police after being shot by them which angered residents further. The police would attempt to cover up their own deaths.


1967 New York City riot, Riots, Evening of July 23 and 24
However, the victories made at the Gracie Mansion were short-lived as rioting resumed during the evening. At 10 PM a group of teenagers would construct a barricade that consisted of overflowing trash cans on Third Avenue and 111th Street and would light it on fire. The cops would disperse the crowd temporarily before regathering again. This time, they would march on Third Avenue to the 126th Street NYPD police precinct. Along the way they would break windows and loot stores they went by.


1967 New York City riot, Riots, Evening of July 23 and 24
Police forces would attempt to create barricades at major intersections on Third Avenue but let them walk between 111th and 125th Streets. 250 police officers would guard the outside of the 126th Street precinct. When the crowd had come, the police would start hitting them with their batons and 1,000 officers would respond to the situation. Fighting between the police and the crowd would last throughout the night. The police themselves would even break windows claiming they only did them because rioters had damaged them.


1967 New York City riot, Riots, Evening of July 23 and 24
The police would exchange gunfire with snipers on top of the rooftops of 111th Street from 2-2:30 AM. 22-year-old Luis Torres, a drug dealer who was released on probation 2 weeks earlier would be killed during that night. The police would say at first that he had died after having suffering a fall and breaking his neck. When New York City's Medical Examiner, Milton Helpern would arrive he would say that the cause of his death was from a .38 caliber bullet when he was shot in his ribs.


1967 New York City riot, Riots, Evening of July 24 and 25
Riots would continue and during the second night it spread over into the South Bronx after a rumor turning out to be false that Mayor Lindsay would visit the area. The police would try to appease the crowds during that night on 109th and Third Avenue by not using sirens, helmets, and helicopters. At some point during the rioting that night, a group of youths would draw a chalk line across Third Avenue at 110th Street in Manhattan and wrote that it was the "Puerto Rican border." Over 1,000 police officers would be dispatched to deal with the 2,000 people who were involved in the unrest that happened that night. The crowd was dispersed after a heavy rainstorm happened at 3 AM. The mayor would be clueless as to how to respond towards the situation.


1967 New York City riot, Riots, Evening of July 24 and 25
A 19-year-old would be shot at his arm along 139th Street in the Bronx. Youths would set fire to trash cans in the Bronx and 2 stores would be looted. The police would assign 70 officers to the area. During the unrest occurring that night in the Bronx, the police would shoot and kill Jose Rodriguez. Jose was fighting 18-year-old Alfredo Feliciano over "a girl" at Longwood Avenue and Fox Street according to the police. Police would also state that Felicano stabbed Rodriguez in his stomach and that Rodriguez himself had a pistol.


1967 New York City riot, Riots, Evening of July 24 and 25
Feliciano would be arrested in connection to the stabbing. The police would say at first that he was killed after being stabbed by a knife on July 24. Rodriguez would fire one shot at Patrolman Granville Watson. However on July 25, the police would change their story saying that Patrolman Watson would fire a warning shot as the two had ran off; and during his second shot he would end up hitting Rodriguez in his shoulder.


1967 New York City riot, Riots, July 26 and 27
Although during the daytime hours of July 26 the city was described as being at a sense of peace. Also during July 26 the city's Police Commissioner, Howard R. Leary would order the entire patrol force to be on a six day work week and give a 60% increase towards the number of officers available for anti-riot activities in an attempt to prevent any unrest in East Harlem from happening.


1967 New York City riot, Riots, July 26 and 27
In addition to the unrest in Harlem and the Bronx, new violence would hit other parts of the city as looting and vandalism erupted along in Midtown during the night of July 26 and 27. At 11:30 PM during July 26, officers at a station on 51st Street would report that a crowd that was disorderly consisting of 100-150 youths leaving Central Park from a Rheingold Festival. The crowd would go southwards along Broadway and turn eastwards toward 46th Street heading onto Fifth Avenue.


1967 New York City riot, Riots, July 26 and 27
Once at Fifth Avenue, they would smash the windows of  a men's clothing store along the northeastern corner of Fifth Avenue and 46th Street. A shoe store was also looted that night along 38th Street. In response to this outbreak of violence, the police would response quickly. Officers would be placed in pairs on the corner of Fifth and Madison Avenues running from 42nd to 50th Street. Commissioner Leary would and Chief Inspector Sanford D. Garelick would go to the scene from their command post located in East Harlem. At 1:30 AM Jacques Nevard, the deputy police commissioner who was the head of press relations would say the unrest midtown was under control. By 2:20 AM the unrest was reported by the police as having ended with 32 arrests happening that night.


1967 New York City riot, Riots, July 29 and 30
Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood would see unrest in it during July 29 and 30 as well. During the night of July 29, 100 police officers would be sent into an area centering around Nostrand Avenue and Fulton Street. Windows would be broken over the course of several hours before the crowd stopped and instead yelled insults at the police. The police did not retaliate and order would return to the area by dawn that day. The Brooklyn disturbances would see 32 arrests in total over the course of two days. However, it is unknown what specifically caused it.


1967 New York City riot, Aftermath, legacy and results
Following the riots a consensus would form from civic groups, the mayor, media and parts of the police department that the riots themselves weren't only an explosion of lawlessness in the area like how they were often viewed during the 1960s. The general image instead that was formed by them was that they were fueled by isolated incidents and their demands were created spontaneously.


1967 New York City riot, Aftermath, legacy and results
Mayor Lindsay would be asked by US President Lyndon B. Johnson to join the Kerner Commission on July 27, 1967. After being asked, Mayor Lindsay would accept the offer by President Johnson and served as the vice chair of the Kerner Commission.


1967 New York City riot, Aftermath, legacy and results
What happened that year would be one of many incidents of civil unrest during Mayor Lindsay's term as mayor. The following year in 1968, a brief period of unrest would begin after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. during April 1968. The riots occur in close to the same locations as they had the year prior. Also in 1968, two incidents of unrest not connected to the King assassination riot would happen during July in Coney Island and the Lower East Side at close to the same time.


1967 New York City riot, Aftermath, legacy and results
The Young Lords would begin having a presence in the city during 1969 establishing chapters in: East Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx and the Lower East Side. They would have fast paced campaigns and be media-savvy as well. Some Puerto Ricans would turn to the Young Lords as they felt more moderate forces like Mayor Lindsay could not solve their problems adequately.


1967 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
The 33rd New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honored the best filmmaking of 1967.


1967 New York Giants season
The 1967 New York Giants season was the franchise's 43rd season in the National Football League. The Giants improved from 1–12–1 the previous season to 7–7, and finished in second place in the NFL Eastern Conference/Century Division.


1967 New York Giants season, Offseason
On August 5, Emlen Tunnell, formerly of the Giants, became the first African-American to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.


1967 New York Giants season, Regular season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1967 New York Jets season
The 1967 New York Jets season was the eighth season for the team in the American Football League (AFL). The season began with the team trying to improve on their 6–6–2 record from 1966 under head coach Weeb Ewbank. The Jets finished with an 8–5–1 record (their first winning season).


1967 New York Jets season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1967 New York Mets season
The 1967 New York Mets season was the sixth regular season for the Mets. They went 61–101 and finished 10th in the National League, 40½ games behind the NL pennant and World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals. They were managed by Wes Westrum and Salty Parker. They played home games at Shea Stadium.


1967 New York Mets season, Regular season
Although the Mets took  a step back from the previous year, 1967 marked the debut of pitcher Tom Seaver. On July 19, at Shea Stadium he fired 10 strikeouts (The first of 62 games he would achieve that feat as a Mets uniform) in a 7-2 win over the Atlanta Braves. For the season he recorded 16 wins and 170 strikeouts, a Mets record. He had 18 complete games and a 2.76 ERA also a Mets record. It all adds up to Seaver being named The National League Rookie of the Year, and a berth in the All-Star Game.


1967 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1967 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1967 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1967 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1967 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1967 New York Yankees season
The 1967 New York Yankees season was the 67th season for the Yankees franchise, 65th in New York. The team finished ahead of only the Kansas City Athletics (who moved to Oakland after the season ended) in the American League final standings, with a record of 72–90, finishing 20 games behind the Boston Red Sox. New York was managed by Ralph Houk. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium.


1967 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1967 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1967 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1967 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1967 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1967 New York state election
The 1967 New York state election was held on November 7, 1967, to elect two judges to the New York Court of Appeals. In addition, a revised State Constitution was proposed, and rejected; and a $2,500,000,000 transportation bond issue was approved by the voters.


1967 New York state election, Background
Stanley H. Fuld had been elected Chief Judge in 1966. On December 23, 1966, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller appointed Appellate Justice Charles D. Breitel, a Republican, to the seat vacated by Fuld, effective January 1, 1967, to fill the vacancy temporarily.


1967 New York state election, Background
Judge John Van Voorhis would reach the constitutional age limit of 70 years at the end of the year.


1967 New York state election, Background
The State Constitutional Convention met between April and September 1967, and decided to submit the revised Constitution in one piece to the voters for ratification.


1967 New York state election, Nominations
The Republican and Democratic state committees met on September 6 at Albany, New York, and cross-endorsed the incumbent Republican Judge Charles D. Breitel and the Democratic Supreme Court Justice Matthew J. Jasen, of Buffalo.


1967 New York state election, Nominations
Breitel refused to accept the Conservative endorsement, so they nominated Kenneth J. Mullane.


1967 New Zealand Grand Prix
The 1967 New Zealand Grand Prix was a race held at the Pukekohe Park Raceway on 7 January 1967. The race had 19 starters.


1967 New Zealand Grand Prix
It was the 14th New Zealand Grand Prix, and doubled as the opening round of the 1967 Tasman Series. Jackie Stewart won his only NZGP, becoming the last British driver to win the event until Lando Norris in 2016.


1967 New Zealand bravery awards
The 1967 New Zealand bravery awards were announced via a special honours list dated 8 May 1967, and recognised five people for brave conduct and acts of gallantry following an explosion at the Strongman coal mine on 19 January 1967.


1967 New Zealand gallantry awards
The 1967 New Zealand gallantry awards were announced via two Special Honours Lists dated 20 January and 16 May 1967, and recognised five New Zealand military personnel for gallant and distinguished services in operations during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation.


1967 New Zealand licensing hours referendum
A referendum on the hours for the sale of liquor in hotel bars was held in New Zealand on 23 September 1967. Voters were asked whether they favoured continuing the closing of hotel bars at 6 pm or later closing, the actual hours of sale to be decided according to local conditions. The change was favoured by 64.5% of voters.


1967 New Zealand licensing hours referendum
This referendum voted to abolish six o’clock closing of hotel bars and the six o’clock swill. The Sale of Liquor referendum, 1949 had voted to continue six o’clock closing, which had been introduced in 1917.


1967 New Zealand licensing hours referendum
The referendum was held in conjunction with the 1967 New Zealand parliamentary term referendum. Bar closing times were extended to 10 p.m. on 9 October 1967, three weeks after the referendum.


1967 New Zealand parliamentary term referendum
A referendum on the length of the term of Parliament was held in New Zealand on 23 September 1967. Voters were asked whether they approved of extending the term from three to four years. The change was rejected by 68.1% of voters, with a turnout of 69.7%.


1967 New Zealand parliamentary term referendum
The referendum was held in conjunction with the 1967 New Zealand licensing hours referendum.


1967 New Zealand parliamentary term referendum, Background
Prior to the referendum the length of the term of Parliament had changed multiple times since the first general election of 1853. Initially set at five years per term in the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, the term length changed to three years in 1879, and during both World Wars the term was extended on a provisional basis, but proved to be unpopular with the electorate.


1967 New Zealand parliamentary term referendum, Background
The referendum did not gain significant public attention, largely because of the licensing hours referendum that was happening at the same time.


1967 New Zealand parliamentary term referendum, Background
This referendum was non-binding, so if a majority of voters supported the proposed measures, then Parliament would have had to vote on it. As the term of Parliament is an entrenched clause in the New Zealand constitution, 75% of MPs would have had to vote for it.


1967 New Zealand rugby league season
The 1967 New Zealand rugby league season was the 60th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand. This was the first season played under a limited tackle rule, four tackles were allowed until the limit was expanded to the current six in 1976.


1967 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
New Zealand toured Australia, losing the series 1-2. The team was coached by Lory Blanchard.


1967 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
Bob Irvine won the New Zealand Rugby League's player of the year award.


1967 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Northern Union Cup
Auckland again held the Northern Union Cup at the end of the season.


1967 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition
Auckland won the Rothmans trophy, defeating Wellington 39-13 in the final.


1967 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition
Auckland included Eric Carson, Victor Yates, Paul and Bill Schultz, Doug Ellwood and Ernie Wiggs. Bob Irvine played for Canterbury


1967 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Ponsonby won the Auckland Rugby League's Fox Memorial Trophy, Stormont Shield and Rukutai Shield. They defeated Otahuhu 12-9 in the Fox Memorial grand final. Otahuhu won the Roope Rooster and Southern won the Sharman Cup.


1967 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Doug Ellwood, from City Newton, won both the Lipscombe Cup and Rothville Trophy. Ernie Wiggs, from Otahuhu, won the Painter Rosebowl Trophy.


1967 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
The University of Auckland rugby league club was founded for the second time. The club fielded a team in the sixth grade that was coached by former Kiwi Bill Snowden.


1967 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Ponsonby were coached by Ian Grey and included Roger Bailey, Victor Yates, Rick Carey, Ken McCracken, Mike McClennan, Don Mann and Brian Tracey.


1967 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
Hornby won the Canterbury Rugby League's Pat Smith Challenge Trophy, defeating Addington 17-10 in the inaugural grand final. Addington had won the Massetti Cup as minor premierers. Marist won the Gore Cup 24-12 over Linwood.


1967 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
Greymouth Marist defeated Hornby 24-13 to win the Thacker Shield.


1967 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
Gordon Abercrombie (Linwood), Michael Napier (Papanui) and Robin Moffat (Hornby) all shared the A.G.Bailey Challenge Cup as leading try-scorers.


1967 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, France and Canada
The 1967 New Zealand rugby union tour of Great Britain, France and Canada was a tour undertaken by the New Zealand national rugby union team (the All Blacks). The series consisted of 17 matches, four of Test status against international opposition. The New Zealand team finished the tour undefeated, the first time they had achieved this in the Northern hemisphere since the 1924–25 Invincible team.


1967 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, France and Canada, Tour
The 1967 tour was hastily arranged, as New Zealand originally intended to tour South Africa. That was called off due to apartheid issues over the Māori members of the New Zealand side, and Britain was chosen as an alternative. This resulted in difficulties arranging matches against club opposition, a tradition of earlier tours, with non-Test games now played solely against regional teams.


1967 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, France and Canada, Tour
The tour captain was Brian Lochore and the 30-man team was managed by former Kiwis' captain Charles Saxton. The tour began in North America, where the All Blacks played two matches, against British Columbia and Eastern Canada. The tourists then travelled to Great Britain where they faced several regional teams along with two Test matches against England and Wales. This was followed by four matches in France, one against the French national team, before returning to Britain to play three games in Scotland, where they played the final Test of the tour against Scotland. They completed the tour with a return to Wales, beating Monmouthshire and then drawing against an East Wales team, before the final fixture against the Barbarians.


1967 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, France and Canada, Tour
The All Blacks should also have played matches in Ireland, including a test match against Ireland on 16 December but they were forced to cancel this section of the tour because of the 1967 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak. The Irish government banned them from travelling to Ireland, and the tour schedule was re-arranged. The All Blacks also had to burn all their kit before leaving London at the end of the tour.


1967 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, France and Canada, Match details, England
England: 15. Don Rutherford 14. Keith Savage 13. Colin McFadyean 12. Bob Lloyd 11. Rodney Webb 10. John Finlan 9. William Gitting 1. Tony Horton 2. Herbert Godwin 3. Phil Judd (c) 4. Peter Larter 5. John Owen 6. Budge Rogers 7. Bob Taylor 8. George SherriffNew Zealand: 15. Fergie McCormick 14. Malcolm Dick 13. Bill Davis 12. Ian MacRae 11. Bill Birtwistle 10. Earle Kirton 9. Chris Laidlaw 1. Jazz Muller 2. Bruce McLeod 3. Edward Hazlett 4. Samuel Strahan 5. Colin Meads 6. Graham Williams 7. Kel Tremain 8. Brian Lochore (c)


1967 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, France and Canada, Match details, Wales
Wales: 15. Paul James Wheeler 14. Stuart Watkins 13. Billy Raybould 12. Ian Hall 11. Keri Jones 10. Barry John 9. Gareth Edwards 1. Denzil Williams 2. Norman Gale (c) 3. Brian Thomas 4. Max Wiltshire 5. Billy Mainwaring 6. Dennis Hughes 7. John Taylor 8. John Jeffery


1967 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, France and Canada, Match details, Wales
New Zealand: 15. Fergie McCormick 14. Malcolm Dick 13. Bill Davis 12. Ian MacRae 11. Bill Birtwistle 10. Earle Kirton 9. Chris Laidlaw 1. Jazz Muller 2. Bruce McLeod 3. Ken Gray 4. Samuel Strahan 5. Colin Meads 6. Graham Williams 7. Kel Tremain 8. Brian Lochore (c)


1967 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, France and Canada, Match details, France
France: 15. Pierre Villepreux 14. Jean-Michel Capendeguy 13. Claude Dourthe 12. Jean Trillo 11. Andre Campaes 10. Jean Gachassin 9. Marcel Puget 1. Andre Abadie 2. Jean-Michel Cabanier 3. Arnaldo Gruarin 4. Benoit Dauga 5. Alain Plantefol 6. Andre Quilis 7. Christian Carrere (c) 8. Walter Spanghero


1967 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, France and Canada, Match details, France
New Zealand: 15. Fergie McCormick 14. Malcolm Dick 13. Bill Davis 12. Ian MacRae 11. Anthony Steel 10. Earle Kirton 9. Sid Going 1. Jazz Muller 2. Bruce McLeod 3. Ken Gray 4. Samuel Strahan 5. Colin Meads 6. Graham Williams 7. Ian Kirkpatrick 8. Brian Lochore (c)


1967 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, France and Canada, Match details, Scotland
Scotland: 15. Stewart Wilson 14. Sandy Hinshelwood 13. Jock Turner 12. John Frame 11. Bob Keddie 10. David Chisholm 9. Alex Hastie 1. Sandy Carmichael 2. Frank Laidlaw 3. David Rollo 4. Peter Stagg 5. George Mitchell 6. James Fisher (c) 7. Derrick Grant 8. Alasdair BoyleNew Zealand: 15. Fergie McCormick 14. Bill Birtwistle 13. Bill Davis 12. Ian MacRae 11. Anthony Steel 10. Earle Kirton 9. Chris Laidlaw 1. Alister Hopkinson 2. Bruce McLeod 3. Ken Gray 4. Samuel Strahan 5. Colin Meads 6. Graham Williams 7. Kel Tremain 8. Brian Lochore (c)


1967 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, France and Canada, Match details, Barbarians
Barbarians: 15. Stewart Wilson (c) 14. Ken Jones 13. Bob Lloyd 12. Gerald Davies 11. Rodney Webb 10. Barry John 9. Gareth Edwards 1. Howard Norris 2. Frank Laidlaw 3. Tony Horton 4. James Fisher 5. Max Wiltshire 6. Peter Larter 7. Bob Taylor 8. George SherriffNew Zealand: 15. Fergie McCormick 14. Malcolm Dick 13. Bill Davis 12. Ian MacRae 11. Steel 10. Earle Kirton 9. Chris Laidlaw 1. Jazz Muller 2. Bruce McLeod 3. Ken Gray 4. Samuel Strahan 5. Colin Meads 6. Tremain 7. Nathan 8. Brian Lochore (c)


1967 Newark riots
The 1967 Newark riots was one of 159 race riots that swept cities in the United States during the "Long Hot Summer of 1967". This riot occurred in Newark, New Jersey, between July 12 and July 17, 1967. Over the four days of rioting, looting, and property destruction, 26 people died and hundreds were injured.


1967 Newark riots, Background
In the decades leading up to the riots, deindustrialization and suburbanization were major contributors to changes in Newark's demographics. White middle-class residents left for other towns across North Jersey, in one of the largest examples of white flight in the country. Due to the legislation of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, increasing numbers of white veterans, who had recently returned from fighting in World War II, emigrated from Newark to the suburbs where there was improved access to interstate highways, low-interest mortgages, and colleges.


1967 Newark riots, Background
The outflow suburban sprawl of white veterans from Newark was rapidly replaced with an influx of black people moving into the Central Ward; the black people, however, faced discrimination in jobs and housing, ultimately making their lives more likely to fall into a cycle of poverty. By 1967, Newark was one of the United States' first majority-black cities, but was still controlled by white politicians.


1967 Newark riots, Background
Racial profiling, redlining, and lack of opportunity in education, training, and jobs led the city's African-American residents to feel powerless and disenfranchised. In particular, many felt they had been largely excluded from meaningful political representation and often subjected to police brutality.


1967 Newark riots, Background
Newark established a Community Relations Bureau in their police department as early as March 1966. Newark's Police Department director, Dominick Spina, rejectd the budget request as he thought it would not be approved. This was much to the disliking to the residents of the Central Ward and it led to more tensions growing in the area as residents saw that in cases of police brutality on black residents, the police would not be held accountable.


1967 Newark riots, Background
Unemployment and poverty were very high, with the traditional manufacturing base of the city having been fully eroded and withdrawn by 1967. Further fueling tensions was the decision by the state of New Jersey to clear tenement buildings from a vast tract of land in the Central Ward to build the new University of Medicine and Dentistry. Thousands of low-income African American residents were displaced at a time when housing in Newark was aging and subjected to high tax rates.


1967 Newark riots, Background
Many African Americans, especially younger community leaders, felt they had remained largely disenfranchised in Newark, despite massive changes in the city's demographic makeup. Mayor Hugh Addonizio, to date the last white mayor of the city, took few steps to adjust to the changes and provide African Americans with civil leadership positions and better employment opportunities.


1967 Newark riots, Background
Despite being one of the first cities in the country to hire black police officers, the department's demographics remained at odds with the city's population, leading to poor relations between black people and the police department. Only 145 of the 1,322 police officers in the city were black (11%), mirroring national demographics, while the city grew to be over 50% black. Black leaders were increasingly upset that the Newark Police Department remained dominated by white officers, who would routinely stop and question black youths with or without provocation.


1967 Newark riots, Inciting incident
The riots in Newark occurred 2 years after riots in Los Angeles and came at a time when racial tensions were high. Historians believe that the shrinking of the economy, increased unemployment, and a city with a majority African American population which was being run by white politicians increased tensions during that era.


1967 Newark riots, Inciting incident
This unrest and social change came to a head when two white Newark police officers, John DeSimone and Vito Pontrelli, arrested a black cab driver, John William Smith, on the evening of July 12 at 9:40 p.m. After signaling, Smith passed the double-parked police car, after which he was pursued and pulled over by the officers. He was arrested and beaten by the officers and taken to the 4th Police Precinct, where he was charged with assaulting the officers and making insulting remarks.